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A Good Read: Katy Hessel and Amy Blakemore

Katy Hessel and Amy Blakemore

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Art historian Katy Hessel and author Amy Blakemore discuss their favourite books.

Art historian Katy Hessel and author Amy Blakemore discuss their favourite books with presenter Harriett Gilbert.

CHESS by Stefan Zweig (Faber), chosen by Katy Hessel
MAUD MARTHA by Gwendolyn Brooks (Penguin), chosen by Amy Blakemore 
THE PIER FALLS by Mark Haddon (Vintage), chosen by Harriett Gilbert

Art historian Katy Hessel chooses a book that she read in one sitting because she couldn't put it down: Chess by Stefan Zweig. A novella about the limitless possibilities of the game, and of the human mind.

Author Amy Blakemore chooses Maud Martha by the American poet Gwendolyn Brookes, a story of a life told with such a brevity and beauty of prose that it is almost poetry.  

Harriett's choice is a collection of short stories called The Pier Falls by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon, who is not afraid to disturb. 

Photo credit: Lily Bertrand Webb
Presenter: Harriett Gilbert
Producer: Becky Ripley

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