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A Good Read: Alan Coren & Anna Shapiro

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Alan Coren & Anna Shapiro

23/09/2003

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Alan Coren and Anna Shapiro discuss favourite books by Philip Roth and Leo Tolstoy.

4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Alan Coren and Anna Shapiro discuss favourite books by Philip Roth, Leo Tolstoy and Ali Smith. From September 2003.

Sue MacGregor and her guests - writer, Alan Coren and theatre director, Anna Shapiro - discuss favourite books by Philip Roth, Leo Tolstoy and Ali Smith. From 2003. 

Hotel World by Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Penguin

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Publisher: Vintage.

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