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A Good Read: Melissa Benn and Terry Deary

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Melissa Benn and Terry Deary

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Kate Mosse asks Melissa Benn and Terry Deary to talk about their favourite books.

4 Extra Debut. Kate Mosse, Melissa Benn and Terry Deary choose books by Nuala O'Faolain, Charles Nicholl and Carol Shields. From 2009.

Kate Mosse and her guests - journalist, Melissa Benn and , the journalist, and Horrible Histories author, Terry Deary - discuss books by Nuala O'Faolain, Charles Nicholl and Carol Shields. 

Are You Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain.
Publisher: New Island Books

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
Publisher: Penguin

Unless by Carol Shields,
Publisher: Fourth Estate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2009.

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