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A Good Read: Shirley Hughes and Ken Smith

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Shirley Hughes and Ken Smith

30/03/1999

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Sarah LeFanu, Shirley Hughes and Ken Smith on books by Arnold Bennett and E Annie Proulx.

Sarah LeFanu, Shirley Hughes and Ken Smith discuss books by Arnold Bennett, E Annie Proulx and Sebastien Japrisot. From March 1999.

Sarah LeFanu and her guests, popular children's writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes and award-winning poet Ken Smith, discuss their favourite paperbacks. From 1999. 
 
Clayhanger - Arnold Bennett 
Publisher: Penguin 20th Century Classics 
 
Postcards - E. Annie Proulx 
Publisher: Flamingo 
 
A Very Long Engagement - Sebastien Japrisot 
Publisher: Panther.

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