July 5, 2008
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Each week on The Word presenter Harriett Gilbert meets novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, copywriters and book-sellers as she looks at the myriad world of writing.

Latest Edition: Tuesday, July 1st

Award winning Sri Lankan-born Australian author Michelle de Kretser talks about her novel The Lost Dog which is set in the Australian bush. We find out about a publishing phenomenon on the streets of Delhi and we talk to the literary executors for Janet Frame and Jack Kerouac to find out what they do to protect the copyright and reputations of their late authors.

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Title: The Lost Dog
Author: Michelle de Kretser
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
ISBN-10: 0701182105
ISBN-13: 978-0701182106

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