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|  | | Detail from 'Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev' by Robert Dessaix.
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This week's programme
Writer Robert Dessaix explains why he felt compelled to follow in the footsteps of the Russian writer Turgenev across Germany, France and Russia, and what the journey taught him about love. Baroness Susan Greenfield suggests books which might inspire a teenage girl to carry on studying science. And, a reader's guide to the crime writer Ed McBain.
Programme Book List
1) Twilight of Love - Robert Dessaix
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 0743263383
2) First Love - Ivan Turgenev
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140443355
3) On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev trans. Gilbert Gardiner
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140440097
4) Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192833928
Reading Clinic: Science Books
5) Mobius Dick - Andrew Crumey
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 0330419919
6) Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA - Brenda Maddox
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0006552110
7) Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Do - Candace Pert
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 0671033972
8) Sex in the Future - Robin Baker
Publisher: Pan Books
ISBN: 0330370340
9) Private Life of the Brain - Susan Greenfield
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0141007206
Susan Greenfield also recommended the biological science books of Matt Ridley, and the physical science books of Martin Rees (various publishers).
Click here to read 'Daedalus, or Science in the Future' by J B S Haldane.
Click here to read 'Icarus, or The Future of Science' by Bertrand Russell.
Ed McBain books:
10) Alice in Jeopardy - Ed McBain (new novel)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0743262506
11) Blackboard Jungle - Evan Hunter (McBain pseudonym)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0684866021
12) Fat Ollie's Book - Ed McBain
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 0752842765
Peter Guttridge recommended the 87th Precinct novels, and the Matthew Hope series, in particular:
13) Rumpelstiltskin - Ed McBain
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345331494
For a flavour of the Rebus novels by Ian Rankin:
14) Rebus - Three Great Novels: Let It Bleed, Black and Blue, the Hanging Garden - Ian Rankin
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 0752860038
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