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A Good Read: Frances Barber, Grace Dent

Writer Grace Dent and actress Frances Barber talk to presenter Harriett Gilbert about the books they most love, in an edition recorded in front of an audience at R4's More Than...

Writer Grace Dent and actress Frances Barber talk to presenter Harriett Gilbert about the books they most love, in an edition recorded in front of an audience at R4's More Than Words Listening Festival in Bristol: 'Love in a Cold Climate' by Nancy Mitford,
'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini and 'Cat's Eye' by Margaret Atwood.

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Books

Celebrating reading and the 100 novels that have shaped our world.

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How many of these 100 Novels have you read?

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