Episode 18

This week’s sparkling selection of guests includes social butterfly Nicky Haslam; super-successful author Lionel Shriver and superb seed-monger, Monty Don...

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Mariella’s Recommended Reads
If you’ve read one of the featured books from one of Mariella’s guests and are hungry for more, have a look at our pithily-titled If You Liked That, You’ll Like This section...

Bedside Table
Philip Kerr, author of the acclaimed series of Bernie Gunter thrillers reveals what he’s currently reading – when he manages to stay awake, that is...

Fine Line
Last year’s Costa winner, Sebastian Barry reveals his favourite line ever. We’ll give you a hint: it’s from Robert Lull’s The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket. Does that help?

Book Club
The Book Show gets the inside track this week as crime novelist Morag Joss takes us to her home town of Winchester for a classic book club suggestion from P and G Wells...

The Write Place
We sneak into the study of bestselling romantic novelist Cathy Kelly to discover how she gets past the beginning of a novel, and the joys of working from home...

Book of the Decade
Nicky Haslam, Lionel Shriver and Monty Don reveal their top book of the last ten years...

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