World Book Club
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Aaron
Aug 9, 2018
If you love literature, you will love this podcast.
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The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah: Paradise
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May 03, 2025 |
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Michelle de Kretser: Scary Monsters
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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World Book Café: Oslo
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Anne Holt: 1,222
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Kate Mosse: Labyrinth
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Elif Batuman
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Ewald Arenz: Tasting Sunlight
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Women of the World: Edna O’Brien
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Paul Auster: New York Trilogy
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Edna O'Brien: The Country Girls
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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World Book Cafe: Toronto
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Kevin Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Miriam Toews: Women Talking
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Percival Everett: The Trees
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May 04, 2024 |
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Charlotte Wood: The Weekend
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Ann Patchett: The Dutch House
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Madrid
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Carlo Rovelli: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Antonio Muñoz Molina: In the Night of Time
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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AS Byatt - Possession
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Pilar Quintana: The Bitch
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Sofi Oksanen: Purge
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Curtis Sittenfeld: Prep
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May 05, 2023 |
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Paul Theroux: Deep South
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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World Book Cafe: Paris
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Tahmima Anam: A Golden Age
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Mohsin Hamid: Exit West
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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World Book Cafe: Brooklyn
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Bryan Washington: Memorial
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May 07, 2022 |
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NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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Burhan Sönmez: Istanbul, Istanbul
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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Wole Soyinka
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Maylis De Kerangal: Mend the Living
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Jane Harper: The Dry
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Manu Joseph: Serious Men
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Louise Penny: Still Life
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May 01, 2021 |
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Robert Seethaler: A Whole Life
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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Sjón - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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Yiyun Li: The Vagrants
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Ali Smith: How to Be Both
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Helen Garner: The Spare Room
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Deborah Levy - Hot Milk
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
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May 04, 2020 |
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Fatima Bhutto - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Leïla Slimani - Lullaby
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Naomi Alderman - The Power
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Jenny Erpenbeck - Visitation
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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David Nicholls - Us
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Héctor Abad - Oblivion
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Ann Cleeves - Raven Black
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Chigozie Obioma - The Fishermen
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Andrea Levy - Small Island
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice
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May 08, 2019 |
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Tessa Hadley - The Past
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - A Grain of Wheat
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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JoJo Moyes - Me Before You
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Lee Child - Killing Floor
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Jan 05, 2019 |
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Chan Koonchung - The Fat Years
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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Lijia Zhang: Lotus
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Kate Atkinson: Life After Life
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Oct 06, 2018 |
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James Ellroy - American Tabloid
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Sep 02, 2018 |
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Hilary Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies
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Aug 05, 2018 |
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Anuradha Roy: An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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Jul 08, 2018 |
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Amy Bloom: Away
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Sarah Waters: Tipping the Velvet
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May 14, 2018 |
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Celeste Ng: Everything I Never Told You
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May 14, 2018 |
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Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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Jackie Kay: Trumpet
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Feb 04, 2018 |
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Agatha Christie
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Jan 08, 2018 |
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Richard Flanagan: Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty
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Nov 05, 2017 |
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Jane Gardam - Old Filth
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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Delphine de Vigan - No and Me
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Aug 06, 2017 |
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Tim Winton - Cloudstreet
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel
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Jun 05, 2017 |
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Derek Walcott - Omeros
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May 07, 2017 |
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Robert Harris - Imperium
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Joël Dicker - The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Laura Restrepo - Delirium
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family
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Jan 08, 2017 |
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Margaret Drabble - The Millstone
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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Crime and Punishment
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Nov 08, 2016 |
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Anne Enright - The Gathering
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Oct 01, 2016 |
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DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
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Sep 16, 2016 |
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Juan Gabriel Vasquez - The Sound of Things Falling
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Jul 02, 2016 |
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Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists
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Jun 04, 2016 |
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Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
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May 11, 2016 |
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Nuruddin Farah - Maps
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Apr 12, 2016 |
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Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
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Mar 06, 2016 |
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Cees Nooteboom - The Following Story
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Feb 04, 2016 |
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Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love
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Jan 02, 2016 |
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Leila Aboulela - Minaret
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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Jonathan Franzen - Freedom
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Nov 08, 2015 |
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Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever
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Oct 03, 2015 |
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Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin
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Sep 05, 2015 |
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Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Aug 03, 2015 |
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Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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Jul 07, 2015 |
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Yasmina Khadra - The Swallows of Kabul
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Jun 07, 2015 |
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Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday
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May 02, 2015 |
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Guenter Grass - The Tin Drum
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Apr 19, 2015 |
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JD Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye
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Apr 04, 2015 |
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Anne Tyler
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Mar 08, 2015 |
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William Gibson
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Feb 01, 2015 |
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Daniel Kehlmann
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Jan 04, 2015 |
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Marilynne Robinson
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Dec 07, 2014 |
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Herman Koch
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Nov 01, 2014 |
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Kathy Reichs - Deja Dead
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Oct 04, 2014 |
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Pat Barker - Regeneration
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Sep 06, 2014 |
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Janice Galloway
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Aug 02, 2014 |
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Jostein Gaarder
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Jul 05, 2014 |
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Per Petterson
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Jun 07, 2014 |
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Maya Angelou - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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May 31, 2014 |
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Harlan Coben
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May 03, 2014 |
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Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses
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Apr 05, 2014 |
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Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love
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Mar 01, 2014 |
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Christos Tsiolkas
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Feb 01, 2014 |
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Pat Barker
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Jan 04, 2014 |
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Brian Aldiss
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Dec 07, 2013 |
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Albert Camus - The Outsider
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Nov 02, 2013 |
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Oct 05, 2013 |
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Neil Gaiman
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Sep 07, 2013 |
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Ahdaf Soueif - The Map of Love
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Aug 03, 2013 |
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Amit Chaudhuri
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Jul 06, 2013 |
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Mohsin Hamid
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Jun 01, 2013 |
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World Book Club: The Great Gatsby
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May 04, 2013 |
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John Grisham - A Time To Kill
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Apr 06, 2013 |
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Romesh Gunesekera - Reef
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Mar 02, 2013 |
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David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
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Feb 02, 2013 |
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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
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Jan 05, 2013 |
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CK Stead - My Name Was Judas
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Dec 01, 2012 |
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Paul Auster - New York Trilogy
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Nov 03, 2012 |
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Javier Marias - A Heart So White
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Oct 06, 2012 |
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Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
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Sep 01, 2012 |
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Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
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Jun 02, 2012 |
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Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines
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May 26, 2012 |
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Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question
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May 19, 2012 |
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Andrea Levy - Small Island
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May 12, 2012 |
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Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor
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May 05, 2012 |
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Toni Morrison - Beloved
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Apr 07, 2012 |
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Jonathan S Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Mar 03, 2012 |
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Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
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Feb 04, 2012 |
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Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider
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Jan 07, 2012 |
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Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger
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Dec 03, 2011 |
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David Grossman - To the End of the Land
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Nov 05, 2011 |
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Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin
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Oct 01, 2011 |
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Hisham Matar - In The Country Of Men
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Sep 03, 2011 |
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Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
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Aug 06, 2011 |
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Henning Mankell - Faceless Killers
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Jul 02, 2011 |
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Val McDermid - A Place of Execution
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Jun 04, 2011 |
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Boris Akunin - The Winter Queen
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May 07, 2011 |
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Jo Nesbo - The Redbreast
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Apr 02, 2011 |
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Javier Cercas - Soldiers Of Salamis
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Mar 05, 2011 |
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PJ O'Rourke - Eat The Rich
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Feb 05, 2011 |
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Bernhard Schlink - The Reader
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Jan 01, 2011 |
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Damon Galgut - The Good Doctor
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Dec 04, 2010 |
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Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows
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Nov 06, 2010 |
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Barbara Kingsolver
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Oct 02, 2010 |
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World Book Club: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Jul 03, 2010 |
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World Book Club: David Mitchell
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Jun 05, 2010 |
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World Book Club: Richard Ford
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May 01, 2010 |
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World Book Club: J.M.G. Le Clezio
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Apr 03, 2010 |
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World Book Club: John Boyne
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Mar 06, 2010 |
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World Book Club: Andrea Levy
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Feb 06, 2010 |
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Kiran Desai
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Jan 02, 2010 |
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World Book Club: James Ellroy
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Dec 05, 2009 |
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World Book Club: Alaa Al Aswany
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Nov 07, 2009 |
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World Book Club: Gunter Grass
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Oct 03, 2009 |
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World Book Club: Lionel Shriver
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Jul 09, 2009 |
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
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Jun 04, 2009 |
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Nawal El Saadawi - Woman At Point Zero
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Apr 30, 2009 |
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Episode 1
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Apr 03, 2009 |
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Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Mar 07, 2009 |
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Episode 1
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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Toni Morrison - Beloved
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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Derek Walcott
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Episode 1
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Nov 18, 2008 |
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Annie Proulx
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Sep 30, 2008 |
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26/08/2008
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Aug 27, 2008 |
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Chinua Achebe
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Jul 30, 2008 |
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John Irving
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Jun 25, 2008 |
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28/05/2008
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May 27, 2008 |
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Sebastian Faulks
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May 02, 2008 |
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Jane Smiley
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Patricia Cornwell
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Feb 28, 2008 |
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Edna O'Brien
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Jan 31, 2008 |
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Umberto Eco
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Dec 25, 2007 |
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Sara Paretsky
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Nov 28, 2007 |
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Michael Ondaatje
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Nov 02, 2007 |
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Armistead Maupin
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Sep 25, 2007 |
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Thomas Keneally: Schindler's Ark
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Jun 26, 2007 |
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Richard Dawkins
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Jun 07, 2007 |
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Wole Soyinka
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May 29, 2007 |
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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Apr 29, 2007 |
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Irvine Welsh
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Apr 29, 2007 |
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Iain Banks
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Mar 01, 2007 |
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Yann Martel: Life of Pi
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Jan 29, 2007 |
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Rose Tremain - Restoration
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Jan 18, 2007 |
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William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach
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Dec 27, 2006 |
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John Le Carre
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Dec 25, 2006 |
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Frank McCourt
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Oct 31, 2006 |
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Arnold Wesker
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Oct 06, 2006 |
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Ian Rankin
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Aug 28, 2006 |
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Joanna Trollope
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Jul 25, 2006 |
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Kurt Vonnegut
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May 30, 2006 |
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Orhan Pamuk
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Apr 25, 2006 |
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Alexander McCall Smith
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Mar 25, 2006 |
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Scott Turow
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Feb 09, 2006 |
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Louis De Bernieres - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Jan 05, 2006 |
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Philip Pullman
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Nov 17, 2005 |
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Maya Angelou
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Oct 07, 2005 |
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Salman Rushdie
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Oct 01, 2005 |
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Andre Brink
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Aug 27, 2005 |
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Jul 23, 2005 |
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Carlos Fuentes
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Jun 15, 2005 |
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Nick Hornby
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May 28, 2005 |
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Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy
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May 09, 2005 |
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Ian McEwan - Atonement
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Mar 26, 2005 |
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Zadie Smith
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Feb 19, 2005 |
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PD James
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Jan 25, 2005 |
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Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
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Dec 12, 2004 |
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Nov 04, 2004 |
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Anita Desai - Fasting, Feasting
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Sep 30, 2004 |
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Roddy Doyle
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Sep 13, 2004 |
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Amoz Oz
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Sep 02, 2004 |
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Gillian Slovo
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Jul 29, 2004 |
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Tracy Chevalier
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May 20, 2004 |
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Martin Cruz Smith
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Feb 24, 2004 |
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Amy Tan
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Jan 29, 2004 |
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Isabelle Allende - The House of Spirits
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Nov 26, 2003 |
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Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal
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Oct 23, 2003 |
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Peter Carey
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Sep 25, 2003 |
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Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone
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Aug 28, 2003 |
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Julian Barnes
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Jul 31, 2003 |
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Jung Chang
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Jun 14, 2003 |
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Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
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May 29, 2003 |
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Margaret Atwood
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Apr 08, 2003 |
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Doris Lessing
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Feb 11, 2003 |
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Hanif Kureishi
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Feb 03, 2003 |
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V S Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas
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Jan 04, 2003 |
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Ben Okri
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Dec 31, 2002 |
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Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
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Dec 02, 2002 |
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Martin Amis - Money: A Suicide Note
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Oct 08, 2002 |
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Stephen King
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Aug 27, 2002 |
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Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegon Days
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Aug 13, 2002 |
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David Hare
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Jul 27, 2002 |
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Maya Angelou
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Jul 04, 2002 |
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Chenjerai Hove - Ancestors
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Feb 05, 2002 |
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Bahaa Taher
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Jan 15, 2002 |
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Iain Sinclair
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Jan 10, 2002 |