Tim Page & Gillian Slovo
4 Extra Debut. Louise Doughty, Tim Page and Gillian Slovo discuss paperbacks by Chester Himes, Carl Hiaasen and Bao Ninh. From April 2001.
Louise Doughty and her guests, photographer Tim Page and novelist Gillian Slovo, discuss paperbacks by Chester Himes, Carl Hiaasen and Bao Ninh. From 2001.
Cotton Comes to Harlem, by Chester Himes
Publisher: Canon Gate
Tourist Season, by Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Pan
The Sorrow of War, by Bao Ninh
Publisher: Vintage.
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