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Cillian Murphy, Deepa Anappara, and are non-fiction books dead?
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Cillian Murphy talks to Samira Ahmed about the return of Tommy in new film Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. As London Book Fair begins, we ask why non-fiction book sales seem to be in decline? Toby Mundy, director of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and Bea Carvalho, Waterstones' Head of Books, discuss current trends. And Deepa Anappara, the Indian author behind the widely-praised Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, returns with an exploration of 19th century Tibet in new novel The Last of Earth. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

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