A Good Read Folgen

Writer Tracy Chevalier, historian Niall Ferguson and Harriet Gilbert discuss favourite novels by Murial Spark, Robert Louis Stevenson and Irène Némirovsky.Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark Publisher: PenguinSouth Sea Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher: Oxford University PressSuite Française by Irène Némirovsky Publisher: VintageProducer: Sally HeavenFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015.

Harriett Gilbert is joined by comic novelist Jonathan Coe and Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney to recommend favourite books.Jonathan's choice is the first part in a tragi-comic epic, 'The Complete Pratt',a semi-autobiographical novel by the late David Nobbs, creator of 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'. It's called 'Second From Last in the Sack Race'.Gemma chooses a novel by Laura Dockrill, a vividly imagined story of mermaids and pirates, 'Lorali'.Harriett dusts off a novel from the 1940s by Nevil Shute, 'Pied Piper'. Its subject matter is sharply topical: an elderly man leads a growing group of refugee children across Europe, attempting to avoid the Nazi invaders.Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery.

News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, crime writer Ann Cleeves and Harriet Gilbert discuss their favourite books by Alain-Fournier, George Orwell and Joanna Rakoff.The Lost Estate (Le Grande Meaulnes) by Alain-Fournier Publisher: PenguinThe Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell Publisher: PenguinMy Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff Publisher: BloomsburyProducer: Sally HeavenFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015.