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Janice Hallett on her new book, The Christmas Appeal - a murder mystery at the local am-dram panto.

Plus, recommendations of literary gems to put under the tree. From writer and critic Max Liu; Syima Aslam, Founder and Artistic Director of Bradford Literary Festival; and Johanna Thomas Corr, Chief Literary Critic for The Times and Sunday Times.

And, as we approach the 70th anniversary of the Ian Fleming Bond classic, Ken Follett explains his love for Live and Let Die.

Presenter: Johnny Pitts
Producer: Emma Wallace

Book List – Sunday 17 December and Thursday 21 December

The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett
The Appeal by Janice Hallett
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
Ways of Life by Laura Freeman
The Letters of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Jacques Bosser
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
The Hero of this Book by Elizabeth McCracken
River Spirit by Leila Aboulela
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs by Marc David Baer
An Uneasy Inheritance by Polly Toynbee
Wish I Was Here by M. John Harrison
The Mathnawi of Rumi translated by Jawid Mojaddedi
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
The Invention of Essex by Tim Burrows
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
The Armour of Light by Ken Follett