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Elif Shafak

A Good Read: Eliza Manningham-Buller and Elif Shafak

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Harriett Gilbert, Eliza Manningham-Buller and Elif Shafak discuss their favourite books.

Former MI5 boss, Eliza Manningham-Buller and author Elif Shafak discuss their book choices with Harriett Gilbert. From 2014.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - former head of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller and Turkish author Elif Shafak - discuss their books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alison Lurie and Michael Chabon.

‘Americanah’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Fourth Estate

‘The War Between the Tates’ by Alison Lurie
Publisher: Vintage 

‘Gentlemen of the Road’ by Michael Chabon
Publisher: Sceptre

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.

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