Books and Beyond: April Fools' Day

Karen and Louisa celebrate April Fools' Day with a look at literary hoaxes, from Ossian, an 18th-century Scottish fabrication of a 3rd-century bard, to Go Ask Alice, passed off in the 1970s as the true diary of an off-the-rails teen.

Listen to this episode on the Auckland Libraries podcast and read on for the books mentioned in the show.

Books and authors mentioned in the show:

• Ossian’s Fingal 1792 by James Macpherson
• Go ask Alice by Anonymous
• The woman in the window by A.J. Finn
• Forbidden love by Norma Khouri
• Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski
• Surviving with wolves by Misha Defonseca
• Go ask Alice by Anonymous
• Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
• How green was my valley by Richard Llewellyn
• “Sonnet CX” by William Shakespeare 

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond.

Catch us on Planet FM104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm. Recent shows can be listened to as podcasts via the Planet FM website.