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A Good Read: Victoria Hislop and Martin Newell

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Victoria Hislop and Martin Newell

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Victoria Hislop and Martin Newell discuss their favourite paperbacks with Kate Mosse.

4 Extra Debut. Kate Mosse, Victoria Hislop and Martin Newell discuss books by Ian McEwan, AA Gill and Julia Blackburn. From 2009.

Kate Mosse and her guests - bestselling writer, Victoria Hislop and poet and musician, Martin Newell - discus a short novel, an autobiography and a satirical rant.

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage

The Angry Island: Hunting the English by AA Gill
Publisher: Phoenix

The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn
Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2009.

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