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Radio 4,14 Jul 2024,28 mins

Garth Risk Hallberg

Open Book

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Johny Pitts speaks to Garth Risk Hallberg about his new novel, The Second Coming. Book Banks - the new initiative offering free books in food banks: we hear from founder and director Emily Rhodes, and Baroness Liz Sanderson of Welton, who conducted an independent review of English libraries, discusses how this sits with library provision in the community. Plus Daisy Buchanan describes the 'book she would never lend' - Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. Presenter: Johny Pitts Producer: Emma Wallace Book List – Sunday 14 July The Second Coming by Garth Risk Hallberg City on Fire Garth Risk Hallberg Bleak House by Charles Dickens Herzog by Saul Bellow Long Island by Colm Tóibín Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Pity Party by Daisy Buchanan

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