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Tim Mackintosh-Smith and Philip Norman

Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Philip Norman and Sue MacGregor on books by Adam Nicolson, Truman Capote and JM Coetzee

Sue MacGregor and her guests - biographer Philip Norman, and Arabist and travel writer Tim Mackintosh Smith - discuss favourite books by Adam Nicolson, and J.M. Coetzee.

Sea Room by Adam Nicolson
Publisher: Harper Collins

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics

Youth by J.M. Coetzee
Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010.

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Sun 6 Sep 202003:30
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