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Samantha Bond and Jason Cowley join Harriett Gilbert to discuss three favourite novels

Samantha Bond, Jason Cowley and Harriett Gilbert discuss novels by Donna Tartt, Joseph Conrad and Hamid Ismailov.  From 2016.

Actress Samantha Bond and editor of The New Statesman, Jason Cowley join Harriett Gilbert  to discuss their favourite novels by Donna Tartt, Joseph Conrad and Hamid Ismailov. 

The Secret History by Donna Tartt 
Publisher Penguin

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 
Publisher Penguin

The Dead Lake' by Hamid Ismailov translated by Andrew Bromfield 
Publisher Peirene

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2016.

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