Jane Smiley & Helen Lederer
4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Jane Smiley and Helen Lederer discuss books by Muriel Spark, Donald Antrim and Nadine Gordimer. From September 2003.
Sue MacGregor and her guests - author, Jane Smiley and comic actress, Helen Lederer - discuss books by Muriel Spark, Donald Antrim and Nadine Gordimer. From 2003.
Crimes of Conscience by Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Heinemann
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Publisher: Penguin
The Verificationist by Donald Antrim
Publisher: Bloomsbury.
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