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Will Self and Rachel Johnson join Harriett Gilbert to chat about favourite books

4 Extra Debut. Will Self, Rachel Johnson and Harriett Gilbert discuss books by Raymond Carver, JR Ackerley and Doris Lessing.  From 2017.

Writers Will Self and Rachel Johnson join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Raymond Carver, JR Ackerley and Doris Lessing. 

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, a collection of short stories by Raymond Carver.
Publisher Vintage

My Father and Myself, by JR Ackerley.
Publisher The New York Review of Books

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Publisher Fourth Estate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017.

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