William Boyd & Paul Foot
4 Extra Debut. Rosie Boycott, William Boyd and Paul Foot discuss books by Evelyn Waugh, Vladimir Nabokov and Lewis Grassic Gibbon. From April 2003.
Rosie Boycott and her guests - novelist William Boyd and journalist Paul Foot - discuss favourite books by Evelyn Waugh, Vladimir Nabokov and Lewis Grassic Gibbon. From 2003.
King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Penguin
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher: Canongate
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Penguin.
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