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Today, 4pm on TAKE FOUR BOOKS: I'm talking to @atahualpavasari.bsky.social about his new novel PERSPECTIVES - a murder mystery set in the 'closed room' of 16th century Florence – and his three influences, including no less than Casanova, Machiavelli & Dangerous Liaisons www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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The new paperback edition of my book WILD HISTORY (coming in April!) is available for 25% off for preorders this weekend only! Take a journey with me into Scotland’s lost and abandoned places… Get 25% off using PREORDER25 👇 www.waterstones.com/book/wild-hi...

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4pm on BBC Radio 4 - I'm talking to Susan Barker about her new literary horror novel OLD SOUL along with her 3 influences - UNDER THE SKIN, by Michel Faber, GHOSTWRITTEN by David Mitchell and CAT'S EYE by Margaret Attwood - listen here! 👇🎧📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Thrilled to have Graeme on board for the latest Darkland Tale - BENBECULA coming this winter!

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4pm today on BBC Radio 4 I'm talking to Emma Healey about her new @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social novel SWEAT, along with three cracking influences: Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss, Dare Me by Megan Abbott and The Harpy by Megan Hunter. Also with @juliecohen.bsky.social! 📻🎧📚 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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4pm today on BBC Radio 4 we're talking to award winning-author Michelle de Kretser about her new novel 'Theory & Practice' & 3 works that inspired its creation - Ali Smith, Shirley Hazzard and Virginia Woolf... #TakeFourBooks 📻🎧📚 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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A tower of border books UK, US, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Taiwanese & Japanese editions of my book 'The Edge of the Plain'. Never gets old seeing your work in translation, not least when the subject is how borders make and break our world #TheEdgeofthePlain 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇵🇹🇪🇸🇮🇹🇹🇼🇯🇵 linktr.ee/edgeoftheplain

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I’m ashamed to say I’d never heard of @jonathancoe.bsky.social until I heard his interview on “Take four books” since then I’ve devoured 3 of his novels and I’m currently on my 4th. He’s quickly become one of my favourite authors.

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Today, 4pm on Take Four Books on BBC Radio 4, I'm interviewing Paul Theroux about his new collection of short stories 'The Vanishing Point' from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social and talking about the 3 works that influenced it - have a listen 📚🎧📻! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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4pm, BBC Radio4, I'm talking to @jonathancoe.bsky.social about his new novel THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE alongside @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com exploring cosy crime, dark academia and 3 influences, including the 'requiem for the detective novel' that is THE PLEDGE 📚🎧📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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More Pentland snow walks - balm for the soul…

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Man and his dog watching the sunset in the hills today… ☀️❄️

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Cracking snow day up in the Pentland Hills today ❄️☀️

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4pm on BBCR4 - TAKE FOUR BOOKS I'm talking to Rachelle Atalla about her new @hodderfiction.bsky.social novel THE SALT FLATS + 3 books that influenced it: Richard Ford's 'Women With Men', @margaretatwood.bsky.social's 'Oryx and Crake' & Kenneth Cook's 'Wake In Fright' 📻🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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A little light reading for the Christmas break. A re-read inspired by episode 3 of @jdcrawf.bsky.social new radio show ‘Take Four Books’.

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This is indeed up! Me plus @valmcdermid.bsky.social on the BBC’s Take Four Books. Merry almost Christmas (from a surprisingly chilly room in the National Library of Scotland :) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Join me in conversation tomorrow on @bbcradio4.bsky.social at 4pm. Take Four Books, presented by James Crawford, talks to the writer and son of John Le Carré - Nick Harkaway - about his new book Karla's Choice and its connections to three other literary works. (I get to chip in...)

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@harkaway.bsky.social & @valmcdermid.bsky.social are on TAKE FOUR BOOKS this Sunday 4pm on Radio 4 & BBC Sounds. We're talking fathers & sons, double identities & the 3 books that influenced Nick's new John le Carré @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social novel 'Karla's Choice' 🎧📚 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Next up! I'm on latest Take 4 Books hosted by @jdcrawf.bsky.social on Radio 4, in conversation with AL Kennedy about her new @saraband-books.bsky.social novel ALIVE IN THE MERCIFUL COUNTRY & her three key influences - Andrei Bely, Tolkein & Melville. My idea of fun ↘️📖 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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4pm today on Radio 4 for another edition of TAKE FOUR BOOKS - I’m talking to A L Kennedy about her new novel, along with three influences - including the suitably epic Moby Dick and The Lord of the Rings #BookSky #TakeFourBooks www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Tune in to #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 today at 4pm and catch @jdcrawf.bsky.social chatting to A.L. Kennedy about her forthcoming book Alive in the Merciful Country Find out more about the programme here: 📚 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #Booksky 💙📚

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I’m hosting a new books program on BBC Radio 4, on Sundays at 4pm, and also on BBC Sounds! It’s called TAKE FOUR BOOKS, and here it is! 👇📻🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

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Spanish edition of ‘The Edge of the Plain’ - ‘El Poder De Las Fronteras’ - just arrived with me. Includes brilliant cover shot and end papers taken by Dan Budnik in 1961 - a woman stands with arms raised against the barbed wire of the Berlin Wall…

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#TakeFourBooks is back on BBC Radio 4 at 4pm! I'm talking to Tessa Hadley about her new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel 'The Party', along with her 3 influences: books by Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen & Colm Toibin. Have a listen! 📻🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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@louisewelsh00.bsky.social & Graeme Macrae Burnet feature in the first in a new @bbcradio4.bsky.social series now on @bbcsounds.bsky.social, Take Four Books, hosted by @jdcrawf.bsky.social. Excellent, in depth discussion of Graeme's latest book A CASE OF MATRICIDE ↘️↘️↘️

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I’m speaking at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social in London on Thursday night, 7.15pm - come along to hear about lost, forgotten & abandoned places - and the stories they hold. Tickets below! 👇 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...

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I’m hosting a new books program on BBC Radio 4, starting this Sunday at 4pm, and also on BBC Sounds! It’s called TAKE FOUR BOOKS, and here’s the trailer 👇📻🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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