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A Good Read: Sarah Hall and Owen Jones

Owen Jones and Sarah Hall talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

A children's book featuring nuclear war, a killer on the run in Dorset, and a brilliant evocation of flight. Owen Jones and Sarah Hall share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

Journalist and writer Owen Jones and novelist Sarah Hall discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

Owen Jones picks the book which gave him nightmares in his teenage years: Brother in the Land, by Robert Swindells, a post-apocalyptic novel set in the North of England.

The thrill of flying, grief and the consolations of fiction are rendered in beautiful style in Sarah Hall's choice: American writer James Salter's memoir Burning the Days.

And Owen and Sarah are transported across Europe into the dark heart of the English countryside in Harriett Gilbert's pick - the page-turning Rogue Male, by Geoffrey Household, a prototype for Bond, Bourne, and many others.

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4 Extra Debut. Harriett Gilbert, Owen Jones and Sarah Hall discuss books by Robert Swindells, James Salter and Geoffrey Household. From 2013.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - writer Owen Jones and novelist Sarah Hall - discuss their favourite books by Robert Swindells, James Salter and Geoffrey Household.  

Burning the Days by James Salter
Publisher: Picador

Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
Publisher: Puffin

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
Publisher: Orion

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.

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