Great choices! I love #TakeFourBooks. Will listen to this episode tonight at 3 or 4am when I can't sleep (yet again).

Brilliant guests on #TakeFourBooks in the last 2 weeks: Colm Toibin giving us THE NEWS FROM DUBLIN and then yesterday a fantastic chat with Susan Choi on FLASHLIGHT... Some fab influences too, from John McGahern's The Country Funeral, to Jenny Erpenbeck's Visitation... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBCRadio4 I'm talking to Rob Doyle about his "mise en abyme" new novel CAMEO, and 3 influences - absolute crackers this week in the form of Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolano and Marguerite Yourcenar! Listen here 📚🎧👇
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Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBC R4 I'm talking to Makenna Goodman about her new @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social novel HELEN OF NOWHERE & her 3 influences: Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees", Bell Hooks' "All About Love" & the plays of Pulitzer-winner Annie Baker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Listen now to my BBC Radio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with Andrew Michael Hurley about new novel SALTWASH and three influences including Philip Larkin's 'Aubade', 'Free Will' by Sam Harris, and Shirley Jackson's chilling 'The Summer People'
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Listen now to my BBC R4 chat with Salman Rushdie about new work THE ELEVENTH HOUR and his 3 picks of influences, including E.M. Forster, Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel Amerika & the Pied Piper of Hamelin! #TakeFourBooks www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Listen now to my BBCR4 chat with Jo Nesbø about latest novel WOLF HOUR, “saving the cat” vs “killing the cat”, taxidermy, & 3 influences including Jim Thompson, Knut Hamsun and Brett Easton Ellis #TakeFourBooks
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Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBCR4 I was talking to Karl Ove Knausgaard about new novel THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT and 3 ‘Faustian’ influences incl Thomas Mann & the memoir of @willsergeant.com from @bunnymen.com! Listen now! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Loved having brill @olgaravn.bsky.social on BBCR4’s #TakeFourBooks today - talking about her new novel THE WAX CHILD & 3 influences inc M.R. James and a book of southern Italian spells! 📚📻🎧https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002m96r

Today on #TakeFourBooks Booker-winner John Banville is talking about his new @faberbooks.bsky.social
novel 'Venetian Vespers' & 3 haunting, Venice-based influences, including (stories & films) Don't Look Now & Death in Venice!
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This week on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 I was talking to William Boyd about his new spy novel 'The Predicament' and 3 influences Lawrence Durrell, Len Deighton and John Le Carre - also with guest @louisewelsh00.bsky.social - listen now!
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Coming up later today on BBC Radio 4 I'm talking to Graham Norton on #TakeFourBooks about his latest novel Frankie, along with 3 influences - Elizabeth Bowen, Armistead Maupin & Gabrielle Zevin (and bonus influence Charlie Brown!) - at 4pm 👇🎧📚
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Loved talking to Ian McEwan (& @damedenisemina.bsky.social!) on BBCRadio4
#TakeFourBooks about climate, memory & the way the past haunts the present in his new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW with 3 influences incl the epic
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
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Listen to Melissa Lucashenko w/ jdcrawf.bsky.social on #TakeFourBooks, @BBCRadio4, re her latest novel 'Edenglassie' and 3 influences including Keri Hulme and Sebastian Barry - recorded, with guest @rodgeglass & live audience, at @edbookfest @Oneworldbooks.bsky.social!
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Listen now to my chat with Melissa Lucashenko on Radio4's #TakeFourBooks about her latest @oneworldbooks.bsky.social novel 'Edenglassie' and 3 influences incl Keri Hulme & Sebastian Barry (recorded with @rodgeglass.bsky.social & live audience at @edbookfest.bsky.social) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Listen to my chat with Sarah Hall on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio4 discussing new @faberbooks.bsky.social novel HELM (the first book to have a wind as its main character?) & 3 influences incl George Saunders & Angela Carter. With Alan McMunnigall of @thiwurd.bsky.social! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Listen now on BBC Radio4 to my chat with Rachel Kushner and live audience @edbookfest.bsky.social for #TakeFourBooks - talking about Creation Lake and 3 influences including Nabokov's Pale Fire and radical 1970s French crime noir! Also with @andrewmeehanesq.bsky.social
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Listen now to @irvinewelsh.bsky.social on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 - talking Trainspotting sequel 'Men In Love' and his 3 influences, no less than James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Bill Shakespeare! Also with guest @kirstininnes.bsky.social
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Take Four Books - Denise Mina - BBC Sounds Multi-award-winning writer Denise Mina discusses her new novel, The Good Liar.

Catch up on Take Four Books - this week award winning writer, Denise Mina, discusses her twentieth novel, The Good Liar, and the three key influences that inspired its creation #takefourbooks #booksky #denisemina #radio4

Listen now to our Radio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with @damedenisemina.bsky.social about new novel ‘The Good Liar’, and 3 influences - 1984, Obedience to Authority and the Dorothy Thompson’s essay ‘Who Goes Nazi?’ - also with Kim Sherwood! 👇🎧📻📚
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Take Four Books - Gurnaik Johal - BBC Sounds Gurnaik Johal tells Take Four Books about his debut novel, Saraswati.

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Author Gurnaik Johal reflects on the books that inspired his debut novel #Saraswati in the latest episode of BBC Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks ✨

Listen now to my chat on Radio4 with Gurnaik Johal on his debut @serpents-tail.bsky.social novel Saraswati on #TakeFourBooks: where a lost river re-emerges in contemporary India. His 3 influences include @amitav.bsky.social, Joseph Conrad and poet Natalie Diaz! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Read both of these in a couple of days before the Colm Toibin episode of Take Four Books. Flew through them. A great episode. #booksksy #takefourbooks #radio4
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Listen now to my chat with Colm Toibin on #TakeFourBooks on Radio 4 - talking about Long Island (his first sequel!) and three influences, Hardy, Conrad & Wharton - also with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Listen now to my chat on Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks with Madeleine Thien about her new, time-warping @grantabooks.bsky.social novel of war, exile and refugees, 'The Book of Records' - and her three influences, including the evergreen 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino...
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BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Wendy Erskine Wendy Erskine talks about her new novel and explores its connections to three other works.

Another excellent episode of BBC Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks, this time with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social. Wendy joins us at WCLF on 18 July with her new novel The Benefactors @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
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A joy to talk to @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social about her new, polyphonic novel 'The Benefactors' on #TakeFourBooks, along with 3 influences Chernobyl Prayer, The Slap and @larapawson.bsky.social's This Is The Place to Be - listen now on Radio 4 & BBC Sounds!
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Listen to us chat to Elif Shafak behind the scenes at @hayfestival.bsky.social on R4 #TakeFourBooks: talking 'There Are Rivers in the Sky' & 3 influences including the earliest recorded poem The Epic of Gilgamesh - along with first national poet of Wales, Gwyneth Lewis! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Listen now to latest #TakeFourBooks recorded at @hayfestival.bsky.social - Andrew Miller talking about his latest novel 'The Land in Winter' & influences including a book about a mad, 300-page party - with excellent @joannechocolat.bsky.social as guest! 👇🎧
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#TakeFourBooks has been at the Hay Festival for the past few days - including a show in front of live audience for the first time with Andrew Miller & @joannechocolat.bsky.social and lovely interview today with @elifsafak.bsky.social and poet Gwyneth Lewis - look out for Radio 4 broadcasts v soon! 🎧