Joanna Trollope & Jay Parini
4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Joanna Trollope and Jay Parini discuss books by Michael Ondaatje, Ernest Hemingway and Edith Wharton. From January 2006.
Sue MacGregor and her guests, novelist Joanna Trollope and writer Jay Parini, discuss favourite books by Michael Ondaatje, Ernest Hemingway and Edith Wharton. From January 2006.
Coming Through Slaughter, by Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Bloomsbury
In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
Publisher: Penguin 20th Century Classics.
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