Andrew Motion on Wainewright the Poisoner

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Poet Laureate Andrew Motion explains why he wrote Wainewright the Poisoner, a highly unusal biography of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1847), English painter, writer, probable murderer and convicted forger who was transported to Tasmania. Plus, the strange unsettling world of Canadian author Carol Shields in her new collection Soup du Jour; and two publishers talk about the literary scene in India