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The two founders of Black Girls Book Club, Natalie Carter and Melissa Cummings-Quarry join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books by Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf and Zora N Hurston. The Color Purple by Alice Walker Publisher: OrionTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher: ViragoMrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Publisher: VintageFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.

Nazir Afzal prosecuted dozens of men responsible for grooming young girls during his time as head of the CPS in the North West of England. His role was dramatised in BBC1's harrowing Three Girls series which told the story of three teenage girls who were abused by a gang of Asian men. He is a strong advocate for women and his choice of book reflects this. It's the late journalist Sue Lloyd Roberts' The War on Women. Novelist Maggie Gee has written many books including My Driver, My Cleaner and The Flood. She has chosen The First Breath by Olivia Gordon which she describes as a rather neglected book on the lives of pre-term babies, their parents and the doctors and nurses in a premature babies unit. She calls it "riveting, touching and informative." Harriett's choice is Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee, the story of a magistrate in an unnamed colonial town on the edge of the British Empire where the indigenous people are referred to as 'barbarians'. These books provoke some very interesting discussion. Tell us what you think on @agoodreadbbcTHE WAR ON WOMEN By Sue Lloyd Roberts THE FIRST BREATH by Olivia Gordon WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by JM CoetzeeProducer: Maggie Ayre

Comedians Helen Lederer and Angela Barnes and presenter Harriett Gilbert discuss books by David Nicholls, Alan Taylor and Anna Funder. The Understudy by David Nicholls Publisher: HodderAppointment in Arezzo by Alan Taylor Publisher: PolygonStasiland by Anna Funder Publisher: GrantaFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.