James Crawford
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THE EDGE OF THE PLAIN @canongatebooks @wwnorton | WILD HISTORY @BirlinnBooks | Presenter @BBCRadio4 TAKE FOUR BOOKS | Editor @PolygonBooks | CHAIR @edbookfest
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined May 2009
"Disappearing islands & coastlines, the ghostly drift of the human niche, leaving archipelagos of uninhabitability in its wake. Borders will reach a point where they have to change. But change how?".THE EDGE OF THE PLAIN out in paperback!.@canongatebooks👇.
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Listen now to our @BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with Denise Mina about new novel ‘The Good Liar’, and 3 influences - 1984, Obedience to Authority and the Dorothy Thompson’s essay ‘Who Goes Nazi?’ - also with @kimtsherwood! 📻👇📚🎧.
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RT @PublishScotland: We are excited to be partnering with the.@edbookfest to bring a super panel of international publishers together, chai….
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Listen now to my chat with @GurnaikJohal on his debut novel Saraswati on #TakeFourBooks @BBCRadio4: where a lost river re-emerges in contemporary India. His 3 influences include @GhoshAmitav, Conrad and poet Natalie Diaz - also with @PretiTaneja! 📻🎧👇
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Listen now to my chat with Colm Toibin on @BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks about Long Island (his first sequel!) and 3 influences Hardy, Conrad & Wharton… 📻📚🎧👇
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Listen now to @madeleinethien on #TakeFourBooks @BBCRadio4 talking about her epic, time-warping new @GrantaBooks novel 'The Book of Records', along with 3 influences, including the evergreen 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino! 👇🎧📻.
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RT @wcorklitfest: Another excellent episode of @BBCSounds #TakeFourBooks, this time with @WednesdayErskin. Wendy joins as at WCLF on 18 Jul….
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Wendy Erskine’s debut novel The Benefactors and Lisa Harding’s The Wildelings are two of the most highly anticipated novels of the year
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Great conversation with @WednesdayErskin on today's #TakeFourBooks - we talk about her polyphonic debut novel 'The Benfactors', along with 3 influences, including the remarkable Chernobyl Prayer - also with guest Emma Warren. Have a listen now! 📻🎧👇
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Listen to us chat to @Elif_Safak behind the scenes.@hayfestival on @BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks: talking 'There Are Rivers in the Sky' &3 influences incl the earliest recorded poem The Epic of Gilgamesh: along with first national poet of Wales, Gwyneth Lewis!.
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Listen now to latest #TakeFourBooks recorded for @BBCRadio4 @hayfestival- Andrew Miller talking about his @waltscottprize-shortlisted novel 'The Land in Winter' & influences including a book about a mad party - with excellent @Joannechocolat as guest! 👇🎧.
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#TakeFourBooks has been at the @hayfestival the past few days - including a show in front of live audience for the first time with Andrew Miller & @Joannechocolat; and lovely interview today with @Elif_Safak and poet Gwyneth Lewis - look out for @BBCRadio4 broadcasts v soon! 🎧
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On latest #TakeFourBooks I'm talking to poet & memoirist Sean Hewitt about his debut novel 'Open Heaven', and his 3 influences, including the 'Go-Between' by LP Hartley, 'Maurice' by E. M. Forster, and 'The Country Girls' by Edna O'Brien. Listen now🎧📚.
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I'm talking to Ocean Vuong on @BBCRadio4's #TakeFourBooks - about his new @vintagebooks novel 'The Emperor of Gladness' and his 3 influences, including The Brothers Karamazov and Jack Kerouac - also with @HeatherParryUK. Listen now! 👇🎧📚 .
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I'm talking to Sir Ben Okri on @BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks about new book 'Madame Sosostris & The Festival for the Broken-Hearted' with influences 'The Waste Land', 'The Outsider', Shakespeare & a bonus book we both love: Les Grand Meaulnes! Listen now!🎧👇.
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4pm on @BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks @vlatronico is talking to me about his International @TheBookerPrizes shortlisted novel 'Perfection' on the 'curated existentialism' (@CDurastanti) of digital nomads, and his 3 influences, including @Patricialockw
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It’s a whale-filled #TakeFourBooks today, 4pm @BBCRadio4 - with Xiaolu Guo’s epic @vintagebooks reworking of Moby Dick, CALL ME ISHMAELLE and influences including Melville, Philip Hoare & Othello -also with Alan McMunnigall of @thiwurd! 📚🎧👇
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4pm on @BBCRadio4 - I'm talking to Andrew O'Hagan about CALEDONIAN ROAD and his three influences, incl Henry James, poet Wallace Stevens, and a certain Peter Pan, by JM Barrie. #TakeFourBooks .Listen here! 👇📻📚.
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RT @Rebels4Ever: Just caught up with this ahead of @LaurentBinetH event tonight @ifru_london A very good listen! #Perspectives
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RT @BillMather: More wonderful stuff on #takefourbooks tonight featuring @eoinmcnamee3 with @DomHowell23 in the producer's chair 📕📗📘📙.
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#TakeFourBooks coming to the @hayfestival in May! 📚📻🎧.
🔊 The @HayFestival 2025 BBC line-up of free events is here – including debuts from The Archers Podcast, Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, Unspeakable, Human Intelligence, Take Four Books and What’s Up Docs?. Returning favourites include Today, Uncanny, The Coming Storm, Sliced
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