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John Banville joins Mariella Frostrup to talk about his writing life, about the search for perfection and the recurrence of themes in his art, not least in his new novel, The Blue Guitar. Set in a re-imagined Ireland, it explores the frailty of the human heart through Oliver Orme, a painter who has abandoned his art. And we discuss children's fiction from around the world with Adam Freudenheim, publisher of Dutch classic, Tonke Dragt's The Secrets of the Wild Woods and Joy Fowler of the Carnegie Medal. We get a top tip from an industry insider on a re-discovered collection of short stories and there's an update on the changing literary landscape in China, from a leading Chinese crime writer.