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Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts host a special programme from the London Literature Festival which this year celebrates friendship. Recorded at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Elizabeth and Johny explore literary friendships on and beyond the page, talking about some of the novels which have beautifully captured the complexities, joys, and truths of some of our most enduring and rewarding relationships. They're joined on stage by; Andrew O’Hagan whose novel Mayflies evocatively explores the beauty of male friendship, Emma Jane Unsworth whose novels, Animals and Adults are glorious and messy, witty and truthful stories of female friendship and Ayisha Malik who pens an unlikely alliance between two older women in her novel This Green and Pleasant Land.

Book List – Sunday 31 October and Thursday 4 November

Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
Adults by Emma-Jane Unsworth
Animals by Emma-Jane Unsworth
Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik
This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
My Brilliant Friend by Elene Ferrante
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Fiere by Jackie Kay
Last Orders by Graham Swift
Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Detransition, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters
Emma by Jane Austen
Translations by Brian Friel
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher