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20/06/2013

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Harriett Gilbert talks to two guests about their favourite books.
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  • Read along - books featured in the next series

    4 June 2013

    • Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend, Penguin
    • The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton, Hendrickson
    • Amongst Women by John McGahern, Faber

    11 June 2013 

    • Two People by AA Milne, Capuchin Classics
    • A Heart So White by Javier Marias, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage
    • Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington, Vintage

    18 June 2013

    • Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems edited by Simon Armitage, Faber 
    • Blankets by Craig Thompson, Top Shelf Productions
    • A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Gavin Maxwell, Eland

    25 June 2013

    • in Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan, Vintage Classics
    • These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer, Arrow
    • An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro, Faber and Faber

    2 July 2013

    • Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household, Orion
    • Burning the Days by James Salter, Picador
    • Brother In The Land by Robert Swindells, Puffin

    9 July 2013

    • Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, translated by Anne Born, Vintage
    • Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn, Faber
    • The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay, Vintage

    16 July 2013

    • Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor, Virago
    • Mole Under the Fence: Conversations with Roland Wallis by Ron Ferguson with Mark Chater, Saint Andrew Press             
    • March Violets by Philip Kerr, Penguin

    23 July 2013

    • The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie, HarperCollins
    • The Lady With The Little Dog And Other Stories,1986-1904 by Anton Chekov, Penguin Classics
    • Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Kartherine Boo, Portabello Books

     30 July 2013

    • Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje, Bloomsbury Publishing
    • Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux, Penguin
    • Hooky Gear by Nick Barlay, Sceptre

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