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A Good Read: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown & Simon Barnes

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown & Simon Barnes

31/08/2004

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Sue MacGregor is joined by Yasmin and Simon to discuss their favourite books.

4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor is joined by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Simon Barnes to discuss favourite books by Martin Amis, Justin Cartwright and Anthony Powell. From August 2004.

Sue MacGregor and her guests - the authors Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Simon Barnes - in lively debate about books by Martin Amis, Justin Cartwright and Anthony Powell. From 2004.

London Fields, by Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage

Leading the Cheers, by Justin Cartwright 
Publisher: Sceptre 

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (Book 5 of A Dance to the Music of Time), by Anthony Powell
Publisher: Arrow.

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