A Good Read Folgen

Writer Sophie Hannah and journalist Viv Groskop join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Agatha Christie, Mikhail Bulgakov and Eileen Atkins. The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie (writing as Mary Westmacott) Publisher HarperCollinsWill She Do? by Dame Eileen Atkins Publisher ViragoThe Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov trans by Michael Glenny Publisher VintageFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2022.

The broadcaster Petroc Trelawny, host of the Radio 3 Breakfast show, and the crime writer Stuart MacBride, author of the bestselling Logan McRae and Ash Henderson crime thrillers, talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love.Petroc's choice is dystopian JG Ballard novel The Drought, Stuart's is the Hollywood memoir by David Niven, The Moon's A Balloon, and Harriett's is Borges and Me by Jay Parini.Produced by Eliza Lomas. Comment on instagram at @agoodreadbbc

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle is a guide to spiritual enlightenment and preaches the importance of being in the moment. Alex George has found it an invaluable guide when he has suffered periods of anxiety and poor mental health. Ella Al-Shamahi chooses a first hand account of being imprisoned in Yemen by Abdulkader Al-Guneid, a medical doctor taken from his home and locked up for over a year for posting his political views about the conflict in Yemen on social media. She says Prison Time in Sana'a is a testament to inner strength as well as a guide to understanding a very complex if forgotten war. Harriett's choice is the Mermaid of Black Conch - a novel about the capture of a sea woman by white fishermen on a fictional Caribbean island. Little Mermaid it is not. Monique Roffey's mermaid has bad teeth and is full of sea lice.Producer: Maggie Ayre