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Sarah Crown

Guardian Book Club: Hilary Mantel talks to John Mullan


As part of its monthly Book Club, the Guardian hosts a live discussion between the author of the book in question and UCL professor of English, John Mullan. From now on, those of you who follow the Book Club but can't make it to the event will be able to listen to a podcast of the discussion on Guardian Unlimited Books the next day.

This month, the book under discussion is Hilary Mantel's darkly comic tale of mediums and spirit guides, Beyond Black. She talks to John Mullan about the book's most prominent themes - from the fine balance between the supernatural and the psychological, to middle England's moral panics and deepest fears.

Click here to listen to their conversation on your computer (MP3; 32mins), or paste http://blogs.theguardian.com/culturevulture/podcast.xml into the Podcasts bit of iTunes or your RSS reader, to subscribe to the Culture Vulture feed and receive all the Vulture's podcasts as they become available.

And if you'd like to have your say on Beyond Black, join in the discussion on our Book Club blog.

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