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Ben Elton's autobiography

by Ben Elton
BBC Radio 4 · Review Show: The Smashing Machine film and Ben Elton’s autobiography
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Riot Women

by Sally Wainwright
BBC Radio 4 · Tamsin Greig on her role in Sally Wainwright's Riot Women
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney

by Seamus Heaney
BBC Radio 4 · Review Show: I Swear film and The Poems of Seamus Heaney
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

by Virginia Woolf
BBC Radio 4 · Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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The Widow

by John Grisham
BBC Radio 4 · John Grisham on his new thriller, The Widow
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Reese Witherspoon's novel

by Reese Witherspoon
BBC Radio 4 · Reese Witherspoon on her novel and Colin Farrell on his new film
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Bugonia

by Salman Rushdie
BBC Radio 4 · Review Show: Bugonia, Salman Rushdie stories, The Line of Beauty
Cover of The Death of Bunny Munro
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The Death of Bunny Munro

by Nick Cave
BBC Radio 4 · Review Show: The Death of Bunny Munro; TV adaptation of Nick Cave's novel
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Bookclub

The Rachel Incident

by Caroline O'Donoghue
BBC Radio 4 · Friendship and Coming of Age · Oct 31, 2024
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Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus
BBC Radio 4 · Women in Science and Unexpected Careers · Nov 2, 2024
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Fresh Air

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver
NPR · Reimagining Dickens in Appalachia · Nov 3, 2024
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All Things Considered

Our Missing Hearts

by Celeste Ng
NPR · Dystopia and Motherhood · Nov 5, 2024
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Bookclub

The Bee Sting

by Paul Murray
BBC Radio 4 · Family Dysfunction and Irish Humor · Nov 6, 2024
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Fresh Air

North Woods

by Daniel Mason
NPR · A House Through the Centuries · Nov 7, 2024
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Saturday Review

The Fraud

by Zadie Smith
BBC Radio 4 · Zadie Smith's Victorian Mystery · Nov 10, 2024
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Bookclub

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

by James McBride
BBC Radio 4 · James McBride's Portrait of a Community · Nov 11, 2024
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The Woman in Me

by Britney Spears
BBC Radio 4 · Celebrity Memoirs and Truth-Telling · Nov 12, 2024
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All Things Considered

Holly

by Stephen King
NPR · Stephen King Returns with Holly Gibney · Nov 13, 2024
Cover of The Covenant of Water
Fresh Air

The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese
NPR · Abraham Verghese's Epic Family Saga · Nov 14, 2024
Cover of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin
BBC Radio 4 · The Art of Game Design in Literature · Nov 15, 2024