Book Show 2008-10-09
The Book Show
The Book Show is ABC Radio National's home for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. This daily program will explore the many worlds in which we find readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers -- all working with words and the medium of language.
Book Show 2008-10-09
Wed Oct 08 10:00:00 EDT 2008
Il Gattopardo - The Leopard
50 years ago when an Italian novel appeared describing the life and death of an intellectual Sicilian aristocrat, critics didn't know what to make of it.
Robert Drewe's reading life
At this year's Melbourne Writers Festival Robert Drewe talked about his reading life and the books that have inspired him.
