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Berg by Ann Quin


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This week Andy and John are joined by Jennifer Hodgson, editor of 'The Unmapped Country', a collection of British experimental writer Ann Quin's lost work. They discuss Quin's debut novel, Berg, with its opening sentence: 'A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father. . . '. John also talks about Yorkshire: A Lyrical History of England's Greatest County by Richard Morris, and Andy has been reading Andrew Hankinson's You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat].


Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)

7'31 - Yorkshire: A Lyrical History of England's Greatest County by Richard Morris

12'49 - You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life (You Are Raoul Moat) by Andrew Hankinson

21'30 - Berg by Ann Quin


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