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Harriett Gilbert

Sheila Hancock

Cosmo Landesman

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A Good Read: Sheila Hancock and Cosmo Landesman

Sheila Hancock and Cosmo Landesman

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Sheila Hancock and Cosmo Landesman share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

4 Extra Debut. Sheila Hancock, Cosmo Landesman and Harriett Gilbert on books by Toby Young, John Williams and Sylvia Townsend Warner. From 2014.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - actress and author, Dame Sheila Hancock and journalist, Cosmo Landesman - discuss their favourite books by Toby Young, John Williams and Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Stoner by John Williams
Publisher: Vintage

How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
Publisher:  Abacus

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher:  Virago

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.

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