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• Next recording: Douglas Stuart - Send Questions by 8th November

  Douglas Stuart will be discussing his novel 'Shuggie Bain'

  

• Toni Morrison - Beloved

  Harriett Gilbert talks to author Toni Morrison about her book Beloved.

  

  Duration: 53:00

• Collection: Commemorating PEN's centenary

  PEN is the pressure group which campaigns for the release of writers held in jail

  

• Memories of growing up

  Young narrators casting a weary eye over the troubling world around them

  

• From Scott Fitzgerald to Anne Tyler - books to unwind to.

  

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• Henning Mankel, Patrica Cornwell, Jo Nesbo: stars of the genre discuss their craft.

  

• From JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye to Irving Welsh's Trainspotting.

  

• From the tulip fields of 17th Century Amsterdam to the trenches of World War One.

  

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• Ngugi wa Thiongo - An Exile Returns

  Kenya's most famous writer returns home to talk to 成人论坛 World Book Club on 3rd March

  Duration: 2:22

• Lee Child: 'With Jack Reacher, I closed my eyes and wrote'

  Killing Floor is the first of the Jack Reacher novels. Lee Child reads its beginning

  Duration: 4:43

• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson: an introduction

  Does the chance to live her life repeatedly free our heroine up to fulfill her destiny?

  Duration: 8:20

• Politics, people or power - what comes first?

  Alan Holllinghurst on the key ingredients that make up his 1980s novel The Line of Beauty

  Duration: 2:07
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