Rabih Alameddine, English PEN at 100 with Philippe Sands and Elif Shafak, Editors' Pick
Johny Pitts speaks to Rabih Alameddine about his new novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope. Plus Phillipe Sands and Elif Shafak discuss the centenary of English PEN
Johny Pitts speaks to Rabih Alameddine about his new novel The Wrong End of the Telescope, the story of a Lebanese doctor who goes to Lesbos to help Syrian refugees.
English PEN was founded in 1921 to support freedom of expression for writers. Phillipe Sands and Elif Shafak discuss why it is still relevant one hundred years later.
And Neil Griffiths, co-founder of Weatherglass Books and founder of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, choses his Editors' Pick.
Book List
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
The Ratline by Philippe Sands
East West Street by Philippe Sands
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
The Dolls by Ursula Scavenius: Translated by Jennifer Russell
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- Sun 26 Sep 2021 16:00麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
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