Douglas Stuart author of Booker Prize winning novel Shuggie Bain chooses his favourite book - Train Dreams by Denis Johnson - a short novel encapsulating the history of America in the early 20th century through the life of a lonely man in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. He's joined by Radio 1 and The Voice Wales presenter Sian Eleri whose choice is I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman - a dystopian tale of a group of captive women. Harriett's choice is More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman which examines family trauma through the relationship of three generations of women. Strong themes of loneliness run through all three choices as well as questions about our humanity.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

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EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN by Chris Cleave, chosen by Lucy Speed THE HUMAN FACTOR by Graham Greene, chosen by Harriett Gilbert 253 by Geoff Ryman, chosen by Sarah Mills

Former Eastenders and present-day Archers actor Lucy Speed and comedian Sarah Mills talk about books set in wartime London, a 1990s underground train, and Graham Greene's MI6.

Lucy's choice is Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave, Which tells the tale of Mary, a woman who becomes a teacher at the beginning of the war, only for her life to take some unexpected turns during the Blitz.

Sarah has selected 253 by Geoff Ryman, the novel originally published on the Internet which tells the stories of 253 passengers on a London Underground train. Harriett proposes a lesser known a Graham Greene novel, The Human Factor, which takes in apartheid South Africa and communism as well as espionage.

Producer for BBC Audio Bristol: Sally Heaven

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A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini, chosen by Abi Dare THE FIRE NEXT TIME by James Baldwin, chosen by Harriett Gilbert DEAR COMMITTEE MEMBERS by Julie Schumacher, chosen by Naomi Alderman

The Power author Naomi Alderman, and Nigerian writer Abi Dare discuss favourite books. Naomi chooses Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher, a series of hilarious letters written by a beleaguered academic. Abi champions A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini's tale of two women in Taliban governed Afghanistan and Harriett recommends James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, two immensely powerful essays.

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Janey Godley's choice is a thriller Remember Me This Way by Sabine Durrant. It's a page turner with a neat twist and tackles coercive behaviour in an interesting way. And it features a dog called Howard. Janey says it has made her think differently about her own mother's relationship with a controlling man.

Mayflies by Andrew O Hagan is Harriett's choice. It's an 80s tale of male friendship through music set in Ayrshire and Manchester and following two of the young men into adulthood.

Mel Hudson chooses The Map & The Territory by Michel Houllebecq. To say it divides opinion is to put it mildly.

Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Maggie Ayre

Jason Watkins chooses Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark as his good read, and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown champions a book with some similar themes, The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Harriett's selection is The People on Privilege Hill, Jane Gardam's book of short stories.

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Comedian and writer Isy Suttie and the Radio 1 presenter and author Vick Hope are A Good Read's guests.

Vick loves Zadie Smith's Swing Time, Isy chooses Patrick Suskind's The Pigeon and we hear why Harriett's choice of the Young Adult book A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness has her guests in tears.

Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Caitlin Hobbs

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Telegraph writer and podcaster Bryony Gordon is with poet and author Hollie McNish on this week's A Good Read.

Bryony loves Rachel’s Holiday by her writing hero Marian Keyes; Hollie hoped the The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis would improve her chess; and Harriett Gilbert finds both absurdity and pain in Reasons to be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe.

Producer: Sarah Goodman

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Actor Adjoa Andoh, Bridgerton's Lady Danbury, and the CBeebies presenter Andy Day share the books that inspire them.

Adjoa is full of admiration for the remarkable women in Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna and Andy is fascinated by the transformation that occurs in Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy by Virginia M. Axline. Meanwhile, presenter Harriett Gilbert heartily recommends Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by poet Kate Clanchy.

Producer: Sarah Goodman

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Harriett is joined by a husband-and-wife team: Greg James, host of the Radio 1 Breakfast show and Radio 4's Rewinder, and Bella Mackie, author and Vogue columnist.

Bella loves Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, Harriett chooses The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré and Greg picks Right Ho, Jeeves! He says it’s the funniest PG Wodehouse novel. But why did it make Bella think he was the right man for her?

Producer: Sarah Goodman

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Jane Hill chooses The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale, and Harriett's choice, Murder in Notting Hill by Mark Olden, takes place a hundred years later, in a very different part of British society. Derek Owusu isn't sure whether Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzerald really is a good read after all. Producer Sally Heaven Get involved on Instagram: @agoodreadbbc

Comedian Twayna Mayne proposes Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric. Books blogger Simon Savidge (and his mum) both love An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, and Harriett choose Actress by Anne Enright. Producer Sally Heaven Join the conversation on Instagram: @agoodreadbbc

Peter Bazalgette's choice is On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming and Harriett goes for Lullaby by Leila Slimani. Amrou Al-Kadhi chooses Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny, and a central character divides opinion. Is she intensely irritating or a gay icon to be celebrated? Producer Sally Heaven Join our Instagram book club: @agoodreadbbc

Actor Tobias Menzies and crime writer Gytha Lodge join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Rachel Cusk, Judith Kerr, and Helen Garner.

Transit by Rachel Cusk Publisher: Jonathan Cape ( Faber)

The Spare Room by Helen Garner Publisher: Canongate Canons

The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2021.

EDUCATED by Tara Westover, chosen by Jenny Kleeman THE WREN, THE WREN by Anne Enright, chosen by Harriett Gilbert GIVING UP THE GHOST by Hilary Mantel, chosen by Sam Knight

Journalist and broadcaster Jenny Kleeman (of Radio 4's The Gift and author of The Price of Life) chooses Tara Westover's memoir Educated, which caused a sensation when it was first published. It's about her childhood growing up in an isolated Mormon family in rural Idaho, who were preparing for the end of the world, and didn't believe in school, doctors or medicine. It's about how she studied her way out of a difficult upbringing, eventually earning a PhD at Cambridge University.

Sam Knight (staff writer at the New Yorker and author of The Premonitions Bureau) also picks a memoir, but of a very different kind. He goes for Hilary Mantel's beguiling Giving Up The Ghost. In it, she explores the real, and imaginary, ghosts of her life - the illnesses that have haunted her body, the family she would never have, and the art of writing.

Harriett Gilbert brings a work of fiction by a writer she loves, the Irish writer Anne Enright. They discuss her latest novel The Wren, The Wren, a story which speaks about the inheritance of trauma and the price of love.

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Actress Tuppence Middleton and environmentalist Matthew Shribman join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by by Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino, Deborah Levy. From 2021.

The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino Publisher: Vintage [Translator: Ann Goldstein]

The Loser by Thomas Bernhard Publisher: Faber [Translator: Jack Dawson]

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy Publisher: Penguin

Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Becky Ripley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2021.

Poet Helen Mort and comedian Mo Omar join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by M. John Harrison, Nnedi Okorafor and Nicole Krauss.

Climbers by M. John Harrison Publisher: Gollancz

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Publisher: Tor.com

A History of Love by Nicole Krauss Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2021.

Journalist Clive Myrie and critic Boyd Tonkin nominate favourite books. Clive, fresh from covering the US election, has chosen Steinbeck's tale of the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath. Boyd recommends Hadji Murat, the last work of Leo Tolstoy, and Harriett goes for the political thriller Red April by Peruvian writer Santiago Roncagliolo. Join the conversation on Instagram at agoodreadbbc Producer Sally Heaven

Writer Alexander McCall Smith and UCL's Department of Space & Climate Physics, Professor Lucie Green, join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Somerset Maugham, John Higgs and Lewis Carroll.

The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham Publisher: Heinemann

Watling Street by John Higgs Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Publisher: Macmillan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020.

Poet Vanessa Kisuule and environmental writer Jonathon Porritt join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by John Hersey, Nick Drnaso and Helen Dunmore.

Hiroshima by John Hersey Publisher: Penguin

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso Publisher: Granta Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore Publisher: Bloodaxe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2020.

Travel and food writer Yasmin Khan and novelist David Mitchell join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Anne Tyler, Madeline Miller and Ryszard Kapuściński.

Circe by Madeline Miller Publisher: Bloomsbury

Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński Publisher: Penguin

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2020.

Comedian Arabella Weir and novelist Deborah Levy join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Paul Beatty, Marguerite Duras and Evan S Connell.

The Sellout by Paul Beatty Publisher: One World

The Lover by Marguerite Duras Publisher: Everyman's Library (translator: Barbara Bray)

Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2020.

Writer Jonathan Safran Foer and comedian Daliso Chaponda join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Natalia Ginzburg, Richard Brautigan, Orson Scott Card.

The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg Translator: Dick Davis Publisher: Daunt Books

Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan Publisher: Canongate

Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card Publisher: Tor Books

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2020.

Broadcaster Mark Radcliffe and playwright Patricia Cumper join Harriett Gilbert to nominate their favourite book by Toni Morrison, Elizabeth Strout and Helene Hanff. From 2020.

Beloved by Toni Morrison Publisher: Vintage

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout Publisher: Viking

84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff Publisher: Virago

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2020.

Writer Johny Pitts and barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman join Harriett to discuss their favourite books by Claude McKay, CA MacKinnon and Mary Gaitskill

Romance in Marseilles by Claude McKay Pub: Penguin

Butterfly Politics by Catharine A MacKinnon Pub: Belknap Press

This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill Pub: Serpents Tail

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020.

Nihal has chosen Amma, the debut novel by Sri Lankan writer Saraid de Silva, which he compares to meeting someone on a train and having a long, intense conversation. Elif Shafak's choice, however, You're Embarrassing Yourself by Desiree Akhavan, he describes as more like a hilarious night in a pub. Harriett has gone for The Second Murderer by Denise Mina, a Philip Marlowe novel. But is there a need to add to Raymond Chandler's canon?

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Writer, actor and Gavin and Stacey creator Ruth Jones and theatre and film director Dominic Cooke join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Kate Atkinson, Siri Hustvedt and John Lah

Ruth and Dominic are old friends, but did they enjoy one another's books?

And what happened to Ruth's pottery robot in her third set art class?

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson Publisher: Black Swan

What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt Publisher: Sceptre

Prick Up Your Ears, John Lahr's biography of Joe Orton. Publisher: Bloomsbury

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2020.

Journalist and author Nicholas Lezard and former BBC Radio 4 controller Gwyneth Williams join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Samuel Beckett, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa and Sigrid Nunez.

Nicholas chooses Watt by Samuel Beckett Publisher: Faber

Gwyneth chooses: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher: Vintage

Harriett champions The Friend by Sigrid Nunez Publisher: Virago

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2020.

Author Lissa Evans and comedian Sarah Keyworth join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Oliver Sacks, Cheryl Strayed and David Garnett.

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks Publisher: Picador

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Publisher: Atlantic Books

Lady into Fox by David Garnett Publisher: Dover Publications

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2020.

Irish actors Fiona Shaw and Nicola Coughlan join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Jon Ronson, Joan Didion and Dorothy M Hughes.

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson Publisher: Picador

In a Lonely Place by Dorothy M Hughes Publisher: Penguin

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Publisher: Fourth Estate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2020.

Actor Nina Sosanya and writer David Nicholls share their favourite books with Harriett. Nina chooses The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark is David's favourite. Harriett picks Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen, a thriller which asks: what if Jeremy Thorpe's hired thugs had been successful? Producer Sally Heaven Follow us on Instagram at @agoodreadbbc

American avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson and BBC 6 Music DJ Stuart Maconie join Harriett Gilbert to chat about their favourite books by Hunter S Thompson, LTC Rolt and James Lever.

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson Publisher: Harper Perennial

Sleep No More by LTC Rolt Publisher: The History Press

Me Cheetah: The Autobiography by James Lever Publisher: Fourth Estate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.

Crime writer Val McDermid and businesswoman Martha Lane Fox join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Emma Smith, Ali Smith and Patrick Hamilton. From 2020.

This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright by Emma Smith Publisher: Pelican

How to be Both by Ali Smith Publisher: Penguin

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton Publisher: Little Brown

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.

Actresses and friends Pippa Haywood (Greenwing, The Bodyguard) and Felicity Montagu (Alan Partridge) talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. They are: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton, and Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs. They may be old friends, but do they have the same taste in books? Follow us on Instagram @agoodreadbbc to share your thoughts on books and more. Producer: Becky Ripley.

The two founders of Black Girls Book Club, Natalie Carter and Melissa Cummings-Quarry join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books by Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf and Zora N Hurston.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker Publisher: Orion

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher: Virago

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.

Nazir Afzal prosecuted dozens of men responsible for grooming young girls during his time as head of the CPS in the North West of England. His role was dramatised in BBC1's harrowing Three Girls series which told the story of three teenage girls who were abused by a gang of Asian men. He is a strong advocate for women and his choice of book reflects this. It's the late journalist Sue Lloyd Roberts' The War on Women. Novelist Maggie Gee has written many books including My Driver, My Cleaner and The Flood. She has chosen The First Breath by Olivia Gordon which she describes as a rather neglected book on the lives of pre-term babies, their parents and the doctors and nurses in a premature babies unit. She calls it "riveting, touching and informative." Harriett's choice is Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee, the story of a magistrate in an unnamed colonial town on the edge of the British Empire where the indigenous people are referred to as 'barbarians'. These books provoke some very interesting discussion. Tell us what you think on @agoodreadbbc

THE WAR ON WOMEN By Sue Lloyd Roberts THE FIRST BREATH by Olivia Gordon WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by JM Coetzee

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THE COUNTRY OF OTHERS by Leïla Slimani, chosen by Tatty Macleod THE MAN WHO ATE EVERYTHING by Jeffrey Steingarten, chosen by Tim Spector ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey, chosen by Harriett Gilbert

Comedian Tatty Macleod chooses a novel by French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, the first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of a French-Moroccan family between 1946 and 2016.

Scientist and food writer Professor Tim Spector chooses an award-winning collection of essays by food writer and critic Jeffrey Steingarten. His impassioned, funny, and mouth-watering anecdotes are all bound by a gluttonous curiosity that too often tips into obsession.

And Harriett Gilbert chooses a novella by Samantha Harvey called Orbital. Set on the International Space Station, it follows six astronauts as they reflect on life back down on Earth, in all its fury and glory.

Producer: Becky Ripley

Comedians Helen Lederer and Angela Barnes and presenter Harriett Gilbert discuss books by David Nicholls, Alan Taylor and Anna Funder.

The Understudy by David Nicholls Publisher: Hodder

Appointment in Arezzo by Alan Taylor Publisher: Polygon

Stasiland by Anna Funder Publisher: Granta

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.

Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri and comedian Hugh Dennis join Harriett Gilbert to discuss books by Renee Knight, Peter Ackroyd and Caitlin Moran.

The Secretary by Renee Knight Publisher: Black Swan

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd Publisher: Penguin

How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran Publisher: Ebury Press

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.

Maths genius Bobby Seagull and poet and comedy writer Henry Normal join presenter Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Richard Bach, Brian Bilston and William Golding.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Publisher: Thorsons

Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston Publisher: Picador

Lord of the Flies by William Golding Publisher: Faber

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.

Author Neil Forsyth and historian Neil Oliver join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by John Lewis-Stempel, Alexander Masters and Sara Paretsky.

The Glorious Life of the Oak by John Lewis-Stempel Publisher Doubleday

Stuart a Life Backwards by Alexander Masters Publisher Fourth Estate

Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky Publisher Hodder

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.

Actor Richard Harrington and comedian Njambi McGrath join Harriett Gilbert to discuss books by Clive James, Chigozie Obioma and Hannelore Cayre.

Unreliable Memoirs by the late Clive James Publisher: Picador

The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma Publisher: One

The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre Publisher: Old Street Publishing

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

Authors Gail Honeyman and Mavis Cheek join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Charlotte Bronte, Catherine O'Flynn and Penelope Fitzgerald.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Publisher: Penguin Classics

What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn Publisher: Profile Books

The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald: Publisher: Fourth Estate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

Screenwriter Sarah Phelps and comedian Dane Baptiste talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love. Sarah chooses Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote, Harriett's pick is A View of the Harbour by (the other) Elizabeth Taylor and Dane defends Weapons of Mass Instruction, a critique of contemporary schooling by John Taylor Gatto. Please follow us on Instagram at @agoodreadbbc Producer Sally Heaven.

Co-founder of the Bradford Literature Festival, Syima Aslam and journalist Stig Abell join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Jane Austen, JK Rowling and Virginia Woolf.

Both are part of the expert panel that chose the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling Publisher: Bloomsbury

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Publisher: Penguin

Orlando by Virginia Woolf Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

Author Nick Hornby and Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Viv Albertine, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Tobias Wolf.

‘Throw Away, Unopened’ by Viv Albertine. Publisher: Faber

‘White Nights’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Publisher: Penguin

‘Old School’ by Tobias Wolff Publisher: Bloomsbury

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2020.

Comedian Russell Kane and novelist Sarah Perry join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Iris Murdoch, Heinrich Boll and Shirley Jackson.

The Train Was On Time by Heinrich Boll, translated by Leila Vennewitz Publisher Penguin

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch Publisher Vintage

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson, her slightly fictionalised memoir. Publisher Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2019.

REASONS TO STAY ALIVE by Matt Haig, chosen by Ali Woods ELENA KNOWS by Claudia Piñeiro, chosen by Fee Mak THE DETAILS by Ia Genberg, chosen by Harriett Gilbert

Comedian Ali Woods chooses a memoir by Matt Haig based on his experiences of living with depression and anxiety disorder. Moving, funny and incredibly honest, Reasons to Stay Alive is a book which blasts open the way in which we talk about depression.

Presenter and DJ Fee Mak chooses a novel by Claudia Piñeiro called Elena Knows, following a day in the life of Elena, a 63-year-old woman struggling to come to terms with both her own illness and the death of her daughter.

And Harriett Gilbert chooses a short Swedish novel by Ia Genberg called The Details, exploring the relationships that define us, and the small but profound details that stay with us.

Producer: Becky Ripley

DJ and former athlete, Nemone Metaxas and deaf poet and educator Raymond Antrobus join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Patrick Modiano, Jay Bernard and Dolly Alderton.

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, Publisher: Penguin

Surge by Jay Bernard Publisher: Chatto & Windus

Honeymoon by Patrick Modiano Publisher: David R. Godine

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.

Authors Damian Le Bas and Amy Liptrot join Harriet Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Jessie Greengrass, Kathleen Jamie and Dorthe Nors.

‘An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It’ by Jessie Greengrass. Publisher: John Murray

‘Sightlines’ by Kathleen Jamie. Publisher: Sort of Books

‘Mirror Shoulder Signal’ by Dorthe Nors. Publisher: Pushkin Press

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2019.

Photo of Damian Le Bas by Charles Moriarty

Comedian Stewart Lee and DJ and author Dave Haslam join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite reads by Steve Aylett, Olivia Laings and Chris Paling.

Lint by Steve Aylett Publisher: Snowbooks

The Lonely City by Olivia Laings Publisher: Picador

Reading Allowed by Chris Paling Publisher: Constable

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2019

Photo by Steve Ullathorne