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Lemn Sissay and Mick Herron

Lemn Sissay, Mike Herron and Harriett Gilbert discuss books by JM Coetzee, Caroline Blackwood and John Steinbeck. From 2019.

Poet Lemn Sissay and writer Mick Herron join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by JM Coetzee, Caroline Blackwood and John Steinbeck.

The Life and Times of Michael K by JM Coetzee
Publisher: Vintage

Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
Publisher: New York Review of Books

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2019.

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