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Alan Coren & Anna Shapiro

4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Alan Coren and Anna Shapiro discuss favourite books by Philip Roth, Leo Tolstoy and Ali Smith. From September 2003.

Sue MacGregor and her guests - writer, Alan Coren and theatre director, Anna Shapiro - discuss favourite books by Philip Roth, Leo Tolstoy and Ali Smith. From 2003.

Hotel World by Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Penguin

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Publisher: Vintage.

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