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The Mr B's Bookshop

A mix of book chat and author conversations run from Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, an independent bookshop in Bath, England. We begin with the books we're currently reading and let them guide us into the biggest and smallest of ideas: the niche, the essential, the wide-ranging.
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Now displaying: September, 2016

 

Welcome to the Mr B's Podcast: the audio-home of Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath. Read more about our different episodes, and the bookshop where they are all made here 

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Sep 26, 2016

Novelist Yann Martel, author of the Booker prize-winning  Life of Pi, joins us for a conversation about books, reading and the endless scope of art in making sense of the world. His latest novel The High Mountains of Portugal  is out in paperback this month -  a gorgeous story about loss, and the sometimes eccentric ways in which we deal with it. We also finds out about a very peculiar guerrilla book group, conducted once upon a time by Yann himself…

Books mentioned in this episode:

The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Iliad by Homer, Transl. Stephen Mitchell

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony,  and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

 

Music by The Bookshop Band

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