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What questions would you ask these authors?

Ian McEwan, the author of Atonement.
Joanna Trollope, her current book The Other Family is number 6 in the top ten fiction hardback.
Antonia Fraser, the widow of Harold Pinter and author of Marie Antoinette, the international bestseller.

They are all appearing on a Sky Arts programme this evening called The Book Show at 7pm. Mariella Frostrup asks the authors questions on her sofa - I was wondering what the best questions for the authors could be...

I want her to ask Ian McEwan whether he expected Atonement to become one of the biggest films of 2007 - I also hear he is planning to turn it into an Opera!

I found out about the show here by visiting skyarts.co.uk

Matt

I would ask Antonia Fraser about her views regarding Marie Antoinette as a person and whether or not there was a strong inclination to record a biased reaction during the writing of that particular book. And how successful did Fraser think she was in writing what typically should have been an unbiased historical biography?

I would ask all three of them: how do you come up with your plot/subject ideas and how do you record them (eg in a note book on napkins)?