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20/05/2013

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A Good Read

Harriett Gilbert talks to two guests about their favourite books.
Tuesdays at 4.30pm, repeated Fridays at 11.00pm

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Gervase Phinn and Moni Mohsin

Writers Gervase Phinn and Moni Mohsin talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love.

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Gervase Phinn and Moni Mohsin

Writers Gervase Phinn and Moni Mohsin talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love.

Fri 29 Mar 2013 23:00 BBC Radio 4

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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

       

     

     

     

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