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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. Hello, it's great to be back. Today, joined by the

multi-price-winning poet and novelist Helen Mort, author of two poetry collections, Division

Street and No Map Could Show them, and of the novel Black Car Burning. With Helen is the Somali-born stand-up comedian Mo Omar,

creator of the show Becoming Welsh for BBC Radio Wales,

a writer for Radio 4's The Now Show and News Jack,

and a contributor to last year's COVID-defying audiobook, Edinburgh Unlocked.

Helen, would you start us off with your good read? What is it?

My good read is Climers by M. John Harrison.

And it's a book that I discovered in a serendipitous moment in a bookshop in

Ullopal in North West Scotland where what appealed to me

instantly was the title because I am a climber and I picked it up with the spine, went to read it

on the jetty while my friend Alan was off swimming and then he came back sometime later and I hadn't

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