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Hello in today's programme as well as looking forward to the bookish delights that a new year brings.

We'll be looking back over 2012 and exploring the literary legacy of a year that brought us the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, as well as kinky blockbusters, the first woman to win the booker twice, Hillary Mantel, and budding authors doing it for themselves.

We'll discuss how the rise of self-publishing is changing the landscape, and how, as another small publisher gets swallowed up,

a random penguin emerges.

To illuminate on such wide-ranging matters,

I'm joined by James Runcie,

who in 2012 published the first of the Granchester Mysteries,

Sydney Chambers, and the Shadow of Death,

a detective novel set in 1950s Britain.

He also became head of literature and the spoken word at the South Bank Centre in London,

while pulling off another successful Bath Literature Festival in his position there as artistic director.

Naomi Alderman is also here.

She was selected by Margaret Atwood to be her prodigy in 2012

and published her novel, The Liar's Gospel, to Great Acclaim,

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