Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy is the publishing sensation of the last five years, selling 22m copies in 44 languages. His death, shortly after completing it, left a bitter legacy of wrangling between his birth family and the woman who shared his life with him. As Sunday's revamped Observer prepares to tell the whole story, literary editor Will Skildelsky joins us to discuss this and other literary feuds, and we ask one of Larsson's many fans what it is that makes the books so compelling.
We also talk Tolstoy with Jay Parini, author of the novel on which the film The Last Station was based.
And we ask why some poets who write about nature cannot be categorised as nature poets, with special reference to Robin Robertson, whose latest collection is out this week. Robertson illustrates our point by reading one of the poems for us.
Reading List
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson (Picador)
The Millennium trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo et all (MacLehose)
The Last Station by Jay Parini (Canongate)
