John Grisham

The best-selling American author John Grisham speaks to Take Four Books about his latest novel, The French Illusion, and, together with presenter James Crawford, they explore its connections to three other works.

The French Illusion begins with Paul and Chelsea Tanner’s fairytale wedding. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a shocking turn when they are kidnapped while on a day trip to the French countryside.

For his three influences John chose: John Le Carre’s The Little Drummer Girl (1983); John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and finally Harper Lee’s best-selling American classic, To Kill A Mockingbird (1960).

Producer: Dominic Howell
Editor: Gillian Wheelan
This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.