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Our literary editors give us the lowdown on what they’ve been reading this last year - from steamy sex to the end of the world - and what should be on your Christmas gift list. Guests: Robbie Millen, Literary Editor, The Times and The Sunday Times. Johanna Thomas-Corr, Chief Literary Critic, The Times and The Sunday Times. Host: Luke Jones For the full list of Times & Sunday Times best books of the year, Prophet Song - Paul Lynch The Wren, The Wren - Anne Enright Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan The Bee Sting - Paul Murray Old God’s Time - Sebastian Barry Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy The Future - Naomi Alderman Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton Fire Weather - John Vaillant Politics on the Edge - Rory Stewart But What Can I Do? - Alastair Campbell How Westminster Works… And Why It Doesn’t - Ian Dunt Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver The New Life - Tom Crewe Spare - Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex The Woman In Me - Britney Spears My Name Is Barbra - Barbra Streisand Paris: The Memoir - Paris Hilton Erotic Vagrancy - Roger Lewis The Earth Transformed - Peter Frankopan Pathogenesis - Jonathan Kennedy Eve - Cat Bohannon The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Long Island - Colm Tóibín Knife - Salman Rushdie This podcast has been acquired by the BBC. It is not complied by BBC Editorial Standards but covered by the Ofcom Broadcasting Code.
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