Frederic Raphael and Amanda Vickery
Louise Doughty, Frederic Raphael and Amanda Vickery discuss paperbacks by AS Byatt, Peter Robb and Ronald Wright. From January 2000.
Louise Doughty and her guests, novelist and scriptwriter Frederic Raphael and social historian Amanda Vickery discuss three favourite paperbacks by AS Byatt, Peter Robb and Ronald Wright. From January 2000.
Still Life, by AS Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Midnight in Sicily, by Peter Robb
Publisher: Panther
Scientific Romance, by Ronald Wright
Publisher: Anchor.
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