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A Good Read: Brian Aldiss and Richard Fortey

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Brian Aldiss and Richard Fortey

02/02/2015

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Brian and Richard discuss books by T Coraghesson Boyle, Bernhard Schlink and Graham Greene

4 Extra Debut. Sarah LeFanu, Brian Aldiss and Dr Richard Fortey discuss books by T Coraghesson Boyle, Bernhard Schlink and Graham Greene. From March 1999.

Sarah LeFanu is joined by award-winning sci-fi writer Brian Aldiss and author and palaeontologist Dr Richard Fortey to discuss three favourite paperbacks by T Coraghesson Boyle, Bernhard Schlink and Graham Greene. From 1999. 

The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghesson Boyle 
Publisher: Bloomsbury 

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 
Publisher: Phoenix 

Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene 
Publisher: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics.

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