A Good Read

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Janet Street Porter and Martina Cole discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

4 Extra Debut. Janet Street Porter, Martina Cole and Harriett Gilbert on books by Curtis Sittenfeld, Maurice Druon and Muriel Spark. From 2014.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests  -  journalist, Janet Street Porter, and crime writer, Martina Cole  -  discuss their favourite books by Curtis Sittenfeld, Maurice Druon and Muriel Spark. 
 
'American Wife' by Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher: Penguin

'The Iron King' by Maurice Druon
Publisher: Doubleday

'The Ballad of Peckham Rye' by Muriel Spark
Publisher: Harper Collins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.

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