Barry Unsworth on Land of Marvels

Date
2011-01-23
Interviewer: Wachtel, Eleanor
Host: Wachtel, Eleanor
Interviewee: Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012
Producer: Stinson, Mary (Producer)
Producer: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Description

This week, Eleanor Wachtel travels to Italy to speak with England`s Booker prize-winning author, Barry Unsworth. A socially and politically engaged writer, a captivating storyteller - and the author of Sacred Hunger - has a new novel called Land of Marvels. Land of Marvels is published by Doubleday and The Ruby in Her Naval is available in paperback from Norton.

Physical description
1 online resource (1 audio file (52 min., 05 sec.))
Location
Umbria (Italy)
Subject
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. English Networks
CBC Books
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Wachtel, Eleanor. Writers & company
Authorship--Anecdotes
Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012
Authors, English--Interviews
Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012. Land of marvels
Archaeologists--Great Britain--Fiction
British--Iraq--Fiction
Geologists--United States--Fiction
Americans--Iraq--Fiction
Excavations (Archaeology)--Iraq--Fiction
Petroleum--Prospecting--Iraq--Fiction
Petroleum industry and trade--Middle East--History--Fiction
Great Britain--Foreign relations--1910-1936--Fiction
Iraq--History--20th century--Fiction
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Assyrians
Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012. Ruby in her navel
Crusades--Fiction
Islam--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500--Fiction
Nobility--Italy--Palermo--Fiction
Knights and knighthood--Fiction
Genre
Discussion
Literary readings
Interviews
Sound recordings
Type of resource
Sound recording non-musical
Language
English
Part of
Writers & Company
Identifier
WritersAndCo-2011-01-23
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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