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Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.

Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,

where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

We don't always see eye to eye,

but I hope you'll find some great

reading suggestions here. Today, Beryl Bainbridge at her darkest, a young American woman causing

mayhem in Paris, and why our beliefs about how the world works may be disastrously blinkered.

With me to introduce their good read are the writer John Higgs, whose books include

stranger than we can imagine, an attempt to make sense of the 20th century, and introduce their good read are the writer John Higgs, whose books include Stranger Than

We Can Imagine, an attempt to make sense of the 20th century, and most recently Wattling

Street, a journey along and a history of, one of the oldest roads in Britain. With John is

the stand-up comedian, actor and writer Gronia Maguire, a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe,

who writes for shows such as 8 out of 10 cats

and Radio 4's news quiz

and has appeared on question time

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