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Michael Barber and Zadie Smith

Louise Doughty, Michael Barber and Zadie Smith discuss books by Sebastian Junger, Stephen E Ambrose and Vladimir Nabokov. From April 2000.

Louise Doughty and her guests, education adviser Michael Barber and acclaimed first-time novelist Zadie Smith, discuss favourite paperbacks by Sebastian Junger, Stephen E Ambrose and Vladimir Nabokov. From April 2000.

Undaunted Courage, by Stephen E Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Penguin

The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger
Publisher: Fourth Estate.

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