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Hello, welcome. Today's good reads include a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. No one would publish when the author was alive.

It was only through his bereaved

mama's determination. It saw the light of day. There's that and there's polar bears. What more

could you want? Here to introduce their choice of a book are first one of Britain's best-loved novelist

Dame Penelope lively, among whose many publications are the Booker Prize winning Moon Tiger

and just recently a meditation on old age and memory called Ammonites and Leaping Fish.

With Penelope, the comedian Will Smith. His radio four shows include the Tao of Bergerac and Mr and Mrs Smith, and among other things on TV, he's written for the thick of it,

in which he also appeared as hapless Tory researcher Phil Smith.

A lot of Smiths there, Will.

I'm surprised you haven't chosen Zadie's White Teeth or something about Wilbur Smith.

But you haven't.

What have you chosen for a good read?

I've chosen a Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toll, which is a brilliant comic novel.

I think it's a farce, really, set in New Orleans that centres around Ignatius J. Riley, who's a kind of slothful, fat, mischief maker who rails against offences to taste and decency and draws all these other

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