On Talking of Books this week, Isobel Abulhoul (host) and Yvette Judge (co-host) are joined by book champion Susie Pilkington to discuss Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Orphan Master’s Son’. Young reviewers from Kings Al Barsha tell us why they loved Frances Hardinge’s ‘Cuckoo Song’ and ‘The Lie Tree’. We also have a chat about the film adaptation of the much-loved ‘Swallows and Amazons’ by Arthur Ransome, which will be screened at the Dubai International Film Festival, in partnership with the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. In our final hour, lead reviewer Meredith Chipperton shares her thoughts on the last of Jeffrey Archer’s Clifton Chronicles, ‘This was A Man’.