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Hello, today I'm joined by two writers whose books take on some of the signal shifts of the 1990s.

Cultural revolution in the British art scene, as well as sexual liberation on the streets of Soho,

is explored in James Cahill's Teapolo Blue, while Michelle Gallen's Factory Girls takes us to

a northern Ireland caught between sectarian violence and the emerging promise of the peace process.

Also joining us today is Alexandra Pringle, executive publisher at Bloomsbury.

Prior to that, she worked at Virago Press, Hamish Hamilton, and as a literary agent to writers like Maggie O'Farrell, Jeff Dyer and Ali Smith.

Later on in the program, she'll be reminding us of some of the 90s novels we might like to revisit.

Welcome all to Open Book. Let's begin in late 1994 with James'

novel, Tiepolo Blue. Professor Don Lamb is a revered Cambridge art historian, the embodiment

of art history at Cambridge, someone calls him, and is consumed by the book he's writing about

the skies of the Venetian master, Tiepolo.

However brilliant his intellect is at 43, Don, firmly ensconced in Peterhouse College,

is still deeply inexperienced when it comes to life and love.

When a confrontational piece of contemporary art is installed on the Peterhouse lawn,

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