Books on Saturday Morning, December 2009
This is a list of books by writers interviewed on the programme by Kim Hill, or books discussed by her and a guest. Books usually have a 2009 or 2008 publication date, except where noted. The most recent programme is at the top.
19 December
We Need to Talk About Kelvin
by Marcus Chown
(Faber, ISBN: 978-0-571-24402-7)
Also author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe (Faber, ISBN: 978-0-571-23546-9), and The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science (Faber, ISBN: 978-0-571-22056-4).
Legend of a Suicide
by David Vann
(Penguin Viking, ISBN: 978-0-14104-378-4)
Also author of the memoir, A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea.
Dr. Grordbort's: Victory!
by Greg Broadmore
(Weta Publishing/Dark Horse, ISBN: 978-1595824639)
Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi discusses what makes great children’s books, using the example of Geraldine McCaughrean’s 2001 book, Stop the Train (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192752669).
12 December
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
by Anne C. Heller
(Nan A. Talese, ISBN: 978-0385513999)
Kate’s Klassic:
Kate Camp discusses The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Popular Penguins, ISBN: 9780141037592)
5 December
Burnt Shadows
by Kamila Shamsie
(Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781408800874)
Kamila is the author of four other novels: In the City by the Sea, Kartography, Salt and Saffron, and Broken Verses.
Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey - and even Iraq - are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
(Nation Books, ISBN: 9781568584256)
A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game
by Jenny Uglow
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN: 978-0-571-21733-5)
Janny has also written biographies on Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick, and the Lunar Society, and edited the Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women and The Vintage Book of Ghosts.