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31 March 2009

Sue MacGregor's choice:
Memoir by John McGahern
Faber & Faber

Ann Widdecombe's choice:
Imperium by Robert Harris
Arrow Books

Kate Humble's choice:
The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson
Abacus


24 March 2009

Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
Phoenix

Paul Gambaccini's choice:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Penguin Red Classics

Thea Gilmore's choice:
The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa (Author), Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Arcadia


17 March 2009

Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Bloomsbury

Simon Warner's choice:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Vintage Classics

Sophie Hannah's choice:
Unlucky for Some: A Novel of Suspense by Jill McGown
Pan Macmillan


10 March 2009

Sue MacGregor's choice:
Restless by William Boyd
Bloomsbury

Angie Errigo's choice:
Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
Penguin Classics

Jesse Armstrong's choice:
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Faber & Faber


3 March 2009

Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
Penguin

Robyn Karney's choice:
Dancer by Colum McCann
Phoenix

Huw Stephens's choice:
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Abacus


24 February 2009

Kate Mosse's choice:
Being Emily by Anne Donovan
Canongate

Jenny Agutter's choice:
In the Wake by Per Petterson
Vintage

Adam Hart-Davis' choice:
The Wind in My Wheels by Josie Dew
Little Brown


17 February 2009

Kate Mosse's choice:
The Blood of Flowers
by Anita Amirrezvani
Headline Review

Jonathan Holloway's choice:
The Getaway
by Jim Thompson
Orion

Nicholas McInerny's choice:
Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
Vintage Classics


10 February 2009

Kate Mosse's choice
Scum of the Earth
by Arthur Koestler
Eland

Victoria Derbyshire's choice
Slumdog Millionaire
by Vikas Swarup
Black Swan

Paul Blezard's choice
Letter to a Hostage
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Pushkin Press
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