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Radio 4,28 Jul 2009,30 mins

Imelda May and John Hegley

A Good Read

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Kate Mosse and her guests - singer, Imelda May and poet, John Hegley - discuss favourite books by Ernest Hemingway, Matsuo Basho and Erich Maria Remarque. Two wartime classics and a poetic Japanese travelogue. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Vintage Classics The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa Publisher: Penguin Classics All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Brian Murdoch Publisher: Vintage First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.

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