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We spoke to Meg Wolitzer about her new book, The Female Persuasion http://po.st/uogZyB

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Donald Maclean, code name Orphan, was the most enigmatic member of the infamous Cambridge spies. Like the rest of that extraordinary group, Maclean was recruited while at university to become a mole for Russia’s Communist regime during the Cold War, leaking huge amounts of top-secret British intelligence before he was forced to disappear. On a damp day in April this year, author Roland Phillipps took Alex Clark on a tour of Whitehall, where Donald worked for the Foreign Office and spied for the Russians, to explain why he decided to write A Spy Named Orphan, and to give us an insight into what made Maclean go from gifted diplomat to dangerous traitor.

A Spy Named Orphan, The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps http://po.st/VcqTxR 

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We talk to publisher, editor and friend of Angela Carter, Carmen Callil.

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A nurse and a doctor walk in to a recording studio... and ask if medicine an art or a science, wonder what they would change about the health care system in the UK and talk about the patients they'll never forget.

Brainstorm, Detective Stories From the World of Neurology by Suzanne O'Sullivan: http://po.st/BrainstormP

The Language of Kindness, A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson: http://po.st/LanguageofKindnessP

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To celebrate the release of Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian we have a very specialaudi

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We talk translation, Chinese culture and love with translator Nicky Harman and editor Nick Skidmore.

Our Story by Rao Pingru, Nicky Harman (Translator)

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Rao Pingru was a twenty-six-year-old soldier when he first saw the beautiful Mao Meitang. One glimpse of her through a window as she put on lipstick was enough to capture Pingru’s heart. It was a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years.

But when Meitang passed away in 2008, Pingru realised that their marriage and all the small moments and memories of a life together, would be lost to history. And so at the age of eighty-eight, in an outpouring of love and grief, Pingru began to paint.

Our Story is a memorial to Pingru and Meitang’s epic romance, told through Pingru’s exquisitely detailed paintings and handwritten notes. We see Pingru and Meitang through the decades, through both poverty and good fortune, and as they grow so too does China: the nation undergoing political turmoil and seismic cultural change.

A tale both tragic and inspiring, of enduring love and simple values, Our Story is an old-fashioned romance that unfolds within the rush of a rapidly changing nation. A love letter, a work of folk art and a historical testament, Our Story is a truly unique graphic memoir.

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The Leopard, Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa http://po.st/uUd8wp

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The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantú http://po.st/rnpATd

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Leena Norms talks to Samantha Harvey about her book The Western Wind

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15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? The village priest, John Reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessor. But will he be able to unravel what happened to the victim, Thomas Newman, the wealthiest, most capable and industrious man in the village? And what will happen if he can’t?

Moving back in time towards the moment of Thomas Newman’s death, the story is related by Reve – an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keep. Through his eyes, and his indelible voice, Harvey creates a medieval world entirely tangible in its immediacy.

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