Mike Gayle and Deborah Moggach
4 Extra Debut. Deborah Moggach and Mike Gayle join Sue MacGregor to discuss books by Alan Sillitoe, Eva Hoffman and Sue Townsend. From November 2007.
Sue MacGregor and guests - best-selling novelists Mike Gayle and Deborah Moggach - discuss favourite books by Alan Sillitoe, Eva Hoffman and Sue Townsend.
From the Birmingham Book Festival.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman
Publisher: Vintage
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend
Publisher: Penguin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.
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