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Mariella Frostrup talks to Icelandic novelist Sjon. His new book Moonstone The Boy Who Never Was won both the Literary Prize and the Booksellers' Novel of the Year in his home country and is now being published in the UK. It's set in 1918 and tells the story of a teenage boy, obsessed by films, who witnesses huge changes in Iceland when a flu epidemic sweeps through the population. And what is historical fiction? Mariella and guests look at the changing face of the genre, from swashbuckling adventures to fictionalizing our recent past.