A Good Read

India Knight and Alvin Hall

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Harriett Gilbert and her guests - journalist and author India Knight and financial adviser Alvin Hall - discuss favourite books by Barbara Pym, Rebecca Skloot and Boris Akunin.

Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym

Publisher: Virago

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin

Publisher: Orion

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2014.

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