Bookclub
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Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
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Clare Chambers: Small Pleasures
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Ann Cleeves: Hidden Depths
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Graeme Macrae Burnet: His Bloody Project
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, with Elly Griffiths
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Katherine Heiny: Standard Deviation
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Bernardine Evaristo: Mr Loverman
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Denise Mina: The Long Drop
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Mick Herron: Slow Horses
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Julian Barnes: Arthur and George
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Mary Lawson: Crow Lake
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Sarah Winman: Tin Man
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May 07, 2023 |
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Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Nadifa Mohamed: The Fortune Men
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Cal Flyn: Islands of Abandonment
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Ross King: Brunelleschi's Dome
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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AJ Pearce: Dear Mrs Bird
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Juan Gabriel Vasquez: The Sound of Things Falling
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Curtis Sittenfeld: American Wife
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Kathleen Jamie: Selected Poems
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Kevin Barry
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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John Preston: The Dig
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Diana Evans
|
Jun 05, 2022 |
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Nick Harkaway
|
May 01, 2022 |
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Karen Joy Fowler
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Sarah Moss
|
Mar 06, 2022 |
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Stacey Halls
|
Feb 07, 2022 |
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Abir Mukherjee
|
Jan 02, 2022 |
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Rachel Joyce: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Maja Lunde - The History of Bees
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Lissa Evans - Old Baggage
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Tahmima Anam - A Golden Age
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Francis Spufford - Golden Hill
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Melissa Harrison - All Among the Barley
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies
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May 04, 2021 |
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Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Kei Miller - The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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Tana French - The Wych Elm
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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David Vann - Legend of a Suicide
|
Dec 06, 2020 |
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Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Joseph O'Connor - Star of the Sea
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, The Serial Killer
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Scott Turow - Presumed Innocent
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Max Porter - Lanny
|
Jun 07, 2020 |
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Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby
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May 03, 2020 |
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Jenny Offill – Dept. of Speculation
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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James Meek - The People's Act of Love
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Feb 02, 2020 |
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Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Aminatta Forna - The Memory of Love
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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Owen Sheers - I Saw A Man
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Aug 04, 2019 |
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Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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David Szalay - All That Man Is
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard
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May 05, 2019 |
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Richard Holmes - The Age of Wonder
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Simon Mawer - Tightrope
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Alice Oswald - Falling Awake
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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Poet Simon Armitage on his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings
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Dec 02, 2018 |
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Historian Antonia Fraser discuss her book The Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
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Nov 04, 2018 |
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Anne Enright - The Gathering
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family
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Oct 07, 2018 |
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David Baddiel talks about Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles
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Sep 02, 2018 |
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John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany.
|
Aug 23, 2018 |
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Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others
|
Aug 05, 2018 |
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Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn
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Jul 01, 2018 |
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Jan Morris discusses her classic travel book Venice
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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William Trevor discusses his short story collection After Rain
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May 17, 2018 |
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Jo Nesbo talks about his book, The Snowman
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May 06, 2018 |
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Thomas Keneally discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Sarah Perry discusses her novel, The Essex Serpent
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Apr 01, 2018 |
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Muriel Spark discusses the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Patrick Gale - A Place Called Winter
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Mar 04, 2018 |
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Douglas Adams discusses The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Eimear McBride talks about her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
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Feb 04, 2018 |
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Colin Thubron - In Siberia
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Jan 07, 2018 |
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Clive James
|
Dec 31, 2017 |
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Jennifer Egan discusses her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, A Visit from The Goon Squad.
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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Edward St Aubyn - Mother's Milk
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Nov 05, 2017 |
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Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
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Oct 01, 2017 |
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Patrick McCabe discusses his novel The Butcher Boy
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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Anne Patchett talks to James Naughtie about her novel, Bel Canto.
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Aug 06, 2017 |
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James Naughtie talks to Deborah Levy
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Jul 02, 2017 |
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Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
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May 07, 2017 |
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Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways
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Apr 02, 2017 |
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Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Mar 05, 2017 |
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Kamila Shamsie on Burnt Shadows
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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Barbara Trapido - The Travelling Hornplayer
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Feb 05, 2017 |
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John Lanchester - Capital
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Jan 01, 2017 |
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Jay McInerney - Bright Lights, Big City
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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Bookclub - Helen Macdonald on H is for Hawk
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Oct 02, 2016 |
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Bookclub - Don DeLillo on Underworld
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Sep 04, 2016 |
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Bookclub - Evie Wyld on After the Fire a Still, Small Voice
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Aug 07, 2016 |
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Bookclub - Maggie O'Farrell on The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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Jul 03, 2016 |
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Bookclub - Tony Harrison's poem 'v'
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Jun 05, 2016 |
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Bookclub with Javier Marias
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May 01, 2016 |
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Bookclub with Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
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Apr 03, 2016 |
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Bookclub with Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History
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Mar 06, 2016 |
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Bookclub with Kamila Shamsie on Burnt Shadows
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Feb 08, 2016 |
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Bookclub with Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Jan 03, 2016 |
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Bookclub with Colum McCann - TransAtlantic
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Dec 06, 2015 |
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Bookclub with China Mieville - The City and the City
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Nov 01, 2015 |
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Tessa Hadley on Married Love
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Oct 04, 2015 |
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David Nicholls - One Day
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Sep 07, 2015 |
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Bookclub with A M Homes - May We Be Forgiven
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Aug 02, 2015 |
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Bookclub with Jon McGregor - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
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Jul 06, 2015 |
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Henry Marsh - Do No Harm
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Jun 07, 2015 |
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Hisham Matar - In the Country of Men
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May 03, 2015 |
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Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze
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Apr 05, 2015 |
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Wilbur Smith - When the Lion Feeds
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Mar 01, 2015 |
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Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
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Feb 01, 2015 |
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Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
|
Jan 04, 2015 |
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Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander
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Dec 07, 2014 |
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Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your Father?
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Nov 02, 2014 |
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Tim Winton - Dirt Music
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Oct 05, 2014 |
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Allan Massie - A Question of Loyalties
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Sep 07, 2014 |
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Sadie Jones - The Outcast
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Aug 03, 2014 |
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Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
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Jul 06, 2014 |
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Emma Donoghue - Room
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Jun 01, 2014 |
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Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
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May 06, 2014 |
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John Banville - The Sea
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Apr 06, 2014 |
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Disobedience - Naomi Alderman
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Mar 02, 2014 |
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Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
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Feb 02, 2014 |
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Donna Tartt - The Secret History
|
Jan 05, 2014 |
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Lee Child - Killing Floor
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Dec 01, 2013 |
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Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France
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Nov 03, 2013 |
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Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari
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Sep 01, 2013 |
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Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever
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Aug 04, 2013 |
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Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife
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Jul 08, 2013 |
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Jim Crace - Quarantine
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Jun 02, 2013 |
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Poet Gillian Clarke - Ice
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May 05, 2013 |
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Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love
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Apr 07, 2013 |
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Andrew Miller on his Costa award-winning novel Pure
|
Mar 03, 2013 |
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George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
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Feb 03, 2013 |
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Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag
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Jan 06, 2013 |
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Sathnam Sanghera - The Boy with the Topknot
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Dec 02, 2012 |
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David Almond - Skellig
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Nov 04, 2012 |
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Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
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Oct 07, 2012 |
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Victoria Hislop - The Island
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Sep 02, 2012 |
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Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
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Aug 05, 2012 |
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David Baddiel talks about Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
|
Jul 01, 2012 |
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Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl
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Jun 03, 2012 |
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Ross Raisin - God's Own Country
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May 08, 2012 |
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Anne Enright - The Gathering
|
Apr 01, 2012 |
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Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
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Mar 05, 2012 |
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Art Spiegelman - Maus
|
Feb 05, 2012 |
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Hunter Davies on The Beatles
|
Jan 01, 2012 |
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Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture
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Dec 04, 2011 |
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Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory
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Nov 06, 2011 |
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Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
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Oct 02, 2011 |
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Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Sep 04, 2011 |
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Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice
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Aug 07, 2011 |
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William Fiennes - The Music Room
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Jul 03, 2011 |
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Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
|
Jun 05, 2011 |
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Andrew O'Hagan - Be Near Me
|
May 01, 2011 |
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Jennifer Johnston
|
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Benjamin Zephaniah
|
Mar 04, 2011 |
|
Tim Butcher
|
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Howard Jacobson
|
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Sarah Hall - The Carhullan Army
|
Dec 05, 2010 |
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Claire Tomalin (on Thomas Hardy)
|
Nov 07, 2010 |
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Roddy Doyle
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Oct 01, 2010 |
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Yann Martel
|
Sep 05, 2010 |
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Siri Hustvedt
|
Aug 01, 2010 |
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Henning Mankell
|
Jul 04, 2010 |
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Lynne Reid Banks
|
Jun 06, 2010 |
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Orhan Pamuk
|
May 02, 2010 |
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Jeanette Winterson
|
Apr 04, 2010 |
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Douglas Coupland
|
Mar 07, 2010 |
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Alexander McCall Smith
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Jan 03, 2010 |
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John Irving
|
Dec 06, 2009 |
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Linda Grant
|
Nov 01, 2009 |
|
Gillian Slovo
|
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Robert Macfarlane
|
Sep 06, 2009 |
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CJ Sansom
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Aug 02, 2009 |
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Bernard MacLaverty
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Jul 05, 2009 |
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Kate Grenville
|
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Xiaolu Guo
|
May 03, 2009 |
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Andrew Motion
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Apr 05, 2009 |
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AL Kennedy
|
Mar 01, 2009 |
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Bernard Cornwell
|
Feb 01, 2009 |
|
Oliver James
|
Jan 04, 2009 |
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Amitav Ghosh
|
Dec 07, 2008 |
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Fay Weldon
|
Nov 02, 2008 |
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Michael Morpurgo
|
Oct 05, 2008 |
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Gore Vidal - Point to Point Navigation
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Sep 07, 2008 |
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Colm Toibin
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Aug 03, 2008 |
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Asne Seierstad
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Jul 06, 2008 |
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Jan Morris
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Jun 01, 2008 |
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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May 04, 2008 |
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Simon Armitage
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Apr 06, 2008 |
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William Hague
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Mar 02, 2008 |
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Sarah Dunant
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Feb 03, 2008 |
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Alice Sebold
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Jan 06, 2008 |
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Thomas Keneally
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Dec 02, 2007 |
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Barbara Kingsolver
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Nov 04, 2007 |
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James Robertson
|
Oct 07, 2007 |
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Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
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Sep 02, 2007 |
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Colin Dexter
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Aug 05, 2007 |
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Germaine Greer
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Jul 01, 2007 |
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David Mitchell
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Jun 03, 2007 |
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Jodi Picoult
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May 06, 2007 |
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Jonathan Coe
|
Apr 01, 2007 |
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Alison Weir
|
Mar 04, 2007 |
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Val McDermid
|
Feb 04, 2007 |
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Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
|
Jan 07, 2007 |
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Salley Vickers
|
Dec 03, 2006 |
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Lewis Wolpert
|
Nov 05, 2006 |
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Jane Gardam
|
Oct 01, 2006 |
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Matthew Kneale
|
Sep 03, 2006 |
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Elmore Leonard
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Aug 06, 2006 |
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John Berendt
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Jul 02, 2006 |
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Lindsey Davis
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Jun 04, 2006 |
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Ali Smith
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May 07, 2006 |
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Malorie Blackman
|
Apr 02, 2006 |
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Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Mar 05, 2006 |
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P J O'Rourke
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Feb 05, 2006 |
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George Macdonald Fraser
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Jan 01, 2006 |
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Dec 04, 2005 |
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Antonia Fraser
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Nov 06, 2005 |
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Hanif Kureishi
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Oct 02, 2005 |
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Alain-Fournier
|
Sep 04, 2005 |
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Michael Dibdin
|
Aug 07, 2005 |
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Oliver Sacks
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Jul 03, 2005 |
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Sue Townsend
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Jun 05, 2005 |
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Andrea Levy
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May 01, 2005 |
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Richard Ford
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Apr 03, 2005 |
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Stephen Fry
|
Mar 06, 2005 |
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Bill Bryson
|
Feb 06, 2005 |
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Zadie Smith
|
Jan 02, 2005 |
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Carol Ann Duffy
|
Dec 05, 2004 |
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Pat Barker
|
Nov 07, 2004 |
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Will Self
|
Oct 07, 2004 |
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Paul Auster - New York Trilogy
|
Sep 05, 2004 |
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Muriel Spark
|
Aug 01, 2004 |
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Terry Pratchett
|
Jul 04, 2004 |
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Minette Walters
|
Jun 06, 2004 |
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David Lodge
|
May 02, 2004 |
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Apr 04, 2004 |
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Sarah Waters
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Mar 07, 2004 |
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Peter Carey
|
Feb 01, 2004 |
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Sir John Mortimer
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Jan 04, 2004 |
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Peter Ackroyd
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Dec 07, 2003 |
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Esther Freud
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Nov 02, 2003 |
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Melvin Burgess
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Oct 05, 2003 |
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Edna O'Brien
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Sep 07, 2003 |
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Amanda Foreman
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Aug 03, 2003 |
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T. C. Boyle
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Jul 06, 2003 |
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Sally Beauman
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Jun 01, 2003 |
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P. D. James
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May 04, 2003 |
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Beryl Bainbridge
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Apr 06, 2003 |
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William Trevor
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Mar 02, 2003 |
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Salman Rushdie
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Feb 02, 2003 |
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Alan Bennett
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Jan 05, 2003 |
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Jilly Cooper
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Dec 01, 2002 |
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Jacqueline Wilson
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Nov 03, 2002 |
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Barbara Vine
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Oct 06, 2002 |
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William Dalrymple
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Sep 01, 2002 |
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Maya Angelou
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Aug 04, 2002 |
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David Grossman
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Jul 07, 2002 |
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Michael Frayn
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Jun 02, 2002 |
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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May 05, 2002 |
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Apr 07, 2002 |
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Rose Tremain
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Mar 03, 2002 |
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J G Ballard
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Feb 03, 2002 |
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Ian Rankin
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Jan 10, 2002 |
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Nick Hornby
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Dec 02, 2001 |
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Helen Dunmore
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Nov 04, 2001 |
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Wendy Cope
|
Oct 07, 2001 |
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Doris Lessing
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Sep 02, 2001 |
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Martin Amis
|
Aug 09, 2001 |
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Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife
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Jul 01, 2001 |
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Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
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Jun 03, 2001 |
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James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia
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May 06, 2001 |
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Margaret Drabble
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Apr 01, 2001 |
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Joe Simpson
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Mar 04, 2001 |
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Penelope Lively
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Feb 04, 2001 |
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Tony Parsons
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Jan 07, 2001 |
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Graham Swift
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Dec 03, 2000 |
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Oct 22, 2000 |
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Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
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Oct 01, 2000 |
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Joanna Trollope
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Sep 03, 2000 |
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Anthony Beevor
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Aug 06, 2000 |
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Anita Desai
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Jul 02, 2000 |
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Susan Hill
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Jun 04, 2000 |
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Philip Pullman
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May 07, 2000 |
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Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
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Apr 02, 2000 |
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Carol Shields
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Mar 05, 2000 |
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Isabel Allende
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Feb 06, 2000 |
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Douglas Adams
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Jan 02, 2000 |
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Julian Barnes
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Dec 05, 1999 |
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Dava Sobel
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Nov 07, 1999 |
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Anne Michaels
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Oct 03, 1999 |
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Margaret Forster
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Sep 05, 1999 |
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J K Rowling
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Aug 01, 1999 |
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Kate Atkinson
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Jul 04, 1999 |
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David Guterson
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Jun 06, 1999 |
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Margaret Atwood
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May 02, 1999 |
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Joseph Heller - Catch-22
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Apr 04, 1999 |
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William Boyd
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Mar 07, 1999 |
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John Le Carré
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Feb 07, 1999 |
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Jane Smiley
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Jan 03, 1999 |
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A S Byatt
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Dec 06, 1998 |
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Andrew Davies/William Thackeray
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Nov 01, 1998 |
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Frank McCourt
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Oct 04, 1998 |
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Jung Chang
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Sep 06, 1998 |
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Louis de Bernières
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Aug 02, 1998 |
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Robert Harris
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Jul 05, 1998 |
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Toni Morrison - Beloved
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Jun 07, 1998 |
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Sebastian Faulks
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May 03, 1998 |