Open Book - Kate Tempest on The Bricks that Built the Houses
Kate Tempest is an acclaimed rapper, poet and playwright and she's added novelist to her CV. She talks to Mariella Frostrup about her debut, The Bricks That Built The Houses.
Kate Tempest is an acclaimed rapper, poet and playwright and now she's added novelist to her CV. She talks to Mariella Frostrup about her debut, The Bricks That Built The Houses, the story of three young Londoners trying to escape their complicated lives.
Also on the programme two authors discuss why the environmental changing is the new big fear in dystopian fiction and writer Callan Wink tells us why he finds writing hard, hard work.
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