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Garth Risk Hallberg

Johny Pitts speaks to Garth Risk Hallberg about his new novel, The Second Coming. Plus Book Banks - the new initiative offering free books in food banks.

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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28 minutes

Last on

Sun 21 Jul 2024 00:15

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Photographer Michael Lionstar

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  • Sun 14 Jul 2024 16:00
  • Sun 21 Jul 2024 00:15

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