A Good Read

Sheila Hancock and Cosmo Landesman

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Harriett Gilbert and her guests - actress and author, Dame Sheila Hancock and journalist, Cosmo Landesman - discuss their favourite books by Toby Young, John Williams and Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Stoner by John Williams

Publisher: Vintage

How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

Publisher: Abacus

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Publisher: Virago

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.

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