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A Good Read: Shazia Mirza and Diana Quick

Shazia Mirza and Diana Quick

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Sue MacGregor ask guests Diana Quick and Shazia Mirza to recommend favourite paperbacks.

4 Extra Debut. Shazia Mirza, Diana Quick and Sue MacGregor discuss books by Lorrie Moore, Anton Chekov and Alison Lurie. From 2010.

Comedian Shazia Mirza and actress Diana Quick chat to Sue MacGregor about their favourite books by Lorrie Moore, Anton Chekov and Alison Lurie. 

A Gate At The Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Faber

About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekov
Publisher: Oxford World Classics, translator: Rosamund Bartlett 

Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 
Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2010.

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