Brian Aldiss and Richard Fortey
4 Extra Debut. Sarah LeFanu, Brian Aldiss and Dr Richard Fortey discuss books by T Coraghesson Boyle, Bernhard Schlink and Graham Greene. From March 1999.
Sarah LeFanu is joined by award-winning sci-fi writer Brian Aldiss and author and palaeontologist Dr Richard Fortey to discuss three favourite paperbacks by T Coraghesson Boyle, Bernhard Schlink and Graham Greene. From 1999.
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghesson Boyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Publisher: Phoenix
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
Publisher: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics.
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