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BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello and welcome to my grand finale as I depart open book for Pastures New.

Later we'll be hearing why some critics aren't top of the guest list for a book launch party

and hear about an author who's set for a revival

at the admirable age of 88. But we start with a slim novel, always my favourites, from the French

film director and screenwriter turned novelist Jean-Baptiste Andrea, whose literary debut La Raine won him

Plaudits and Prizes.

100 million years and a day is set in 1954 and elevates us to precipitous heights

as paleontologist Stan embarks on the adventure of his lifetime.

Frustrated by his dead-end job in academia,

he decides to exercise his midlife demons by following a lead

suggesting that a remarkable dinosaur fossil lies buried under a French glacier. In listing the

help of an old colleague Umberto and his prodigé Peter and led by a local guide Gio, the

foursome set off on a dangerous and time-sensitive mission

to locate their prize before the mountain winter sets in. As the search becomes ever more

desperate, it becomes unclear whether Stan is being driven more by dreams of the future or

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