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A Good Read: George Melly & Jenny Diski

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George Melly & Jenny Diski

17/12/2002

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George Melly and Jenny Diski read books by Vladimir Nabokov, Jim Crace and Iris Murdoch.

4 Extra Debut. George Melly, Jenny Diski and Rosie Boycott read books by Vladimir Nabokov, Jim Crace and Iris Murdoch. From December 2002.

Rosie Boycott and her guests, novelist and travel writer Jenny Disk and jazz singer, art historian and aesthete, George Melly discuss paperbacks by Vladimir Nabokov, Jim Crace and Iris Murdoch. From 2002.


'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Penguin

'Quarantine' by Jim Crace 
Publisher: Penguin 

'The Sea, The Sea' by Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Vintage.

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