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Irenosen Okojie talks to Johny Pitts about her new book, Curandera. Plus summer reading: Irenosen and critic Max Liu share their book recommendations for the coming weeks.

Irenosen Okojie talks to Johny Pitts about her new book, Curandera.

Plus summer reading: Irenosen and critic Max Liu share a wide range of book recommendations for the coming weeks.

And EM Forster's secret stories. Historian Diarmuid Hester tells us all about Forster's secret gay fiction.

Book List – Sunday 21 July
Curandera by Irenosen Okojie
The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter
The Light Between Us by Elaine Chiew
The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord
The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin. Translated by Roger Keys and Angela Keys.
Living Things by Manuir Hacheim trans Julia Sanchez
The Life To Come And Other Stories by E. M. Forster ; Introduced by Diarmuid Hester
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories - An Investigation Into Place And The Queer Imagination by Diarmuid Hester

Presenter: Johny Pitts
Producer: Emma Wallace

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28 minutes

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Sun 28 Jul 2024 00:15

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