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A Good Read: Anne McElvoy and Matt Wolf

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Kate Saunders, Anne McElvoy and Matt Wolf choose some favourite books.

4 Extra Debut. Kate Saunders, Anne McElvoy and Matt Wolf on books by Theodor Fontane, Henry James and Candia McWilliams. From 2011.

Anne McElvoy, Policy Editor of The Economist, and theatre critic Matt Wolf talk to Kate Saunders about their favourite books by Theodor Fontane, Henry James and Candia McWilliams. 

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
Publisher: Penguin Classics

The Awkward Age by Henry James
Publisher: Penguin Classics

What to Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliams
Publisher: Jonathan Cape

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011.

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