A Good Read

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A Good Read: Michael Dobbs and Katie Puckrik

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Michael Dobbs and Katie Puckrik talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books.

4 Extra Debut. Michael Dobbs, Katie Puckrik and Harriett Gilbert on books by Kevin Myers, Jennifer Egan and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. From 2013.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - author, Michael Dobbs and broadcaster, Katie Puckrik - discuss favourite books by Kevin Myers, Jennifer Egan and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 

Watching the Door - Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers
Publisher: Atlantic

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Corsair

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013.

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