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Chris Power discusses a year in books and gets some seasonal recommendations from Ellah Wakatama and Kate Mosse, as well as looking forward to new releases. Emma Barnett, Paddy O'Connell and Ritula Shah - some favourite Radio 4 voices - share what they have been reading in 2022. And shining a new light on Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz with the translator behind a new edition of his short stories, Stanley Bill. Reader: Tom Kiteley Presenter: Chris Power Producer: Ciaran Bermingham Book List This is Not A Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris Colditz by Ben McIntyre Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris A Pelican at Blandings by P. G. Wodehouse Putin's People by Catherine Belton Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse The Night Ship by Jess Kidd Desert Star by Michael Connelly 1989 by Val McDermid The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin The Cloisters by Katy Hays (forthcoming) Victory City by Salman Rushdie (forthcoming) Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson (forthcoming) A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo (forthcoming) Nocturnal Apparitions by Bruno Schulz, translated by Stanley Bill
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