Hilary Spurling and Roy Strong
4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Roy Strong and Hilary Spurling on books by Thomas Hardy, Marjorie Bowen and EF Benson. From December 2005.
Sue MacGregor and her guests - biographer and critic Hilary Spurling and historian and gardener Roy Strong - discuss favourite paperbacks by Thomas Hardy, Marjorie Bowen and EF Benson. From 2005.
From the Ways with Words Festival, Southwold.
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Oxford World Classics
The Viper of Milan by Marjorie Bowen
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson (Young Spitfire)
Mapp and Lucia by EF Benson
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics.
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