Mr B's Guests: Yann Martel

Novelist Yann Martel, author of the Booker prize-winning  Life of Pi, joins us for a conversation about books, reading and the endless scope of art in making sense of the world. His latest novel The High Mountains of Portugal  is out in paperback this month -  a gorgeous story about loss, and the sometimes eccentric ways in which we deal with it. We also finds out about a very peculiar guerrilla book group, conducted once upon a time by Yann himself… Books mentioned in this episode: The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel Life of Pi by Yann Martel The old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Iliad by Homer, Transl. Stephen Mitchell The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony,  and Other Stories by Franz Kafka   Music by The Bookshop Band