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Hello, it's lovely to be back and with me today the writer Vasim Khan,

author of two award-winning series of crime novels set in India,

of which the most recent Death of a lesser God came out this August.

Vasim was recently elected chair of the Crime Writers Association.

With him is the rector of St James's Church Piccadilly in London, Lucy Winkett, one of the first women ordained a priest in the Church of England and a regular contributor to Radio 4's Thought for the Day.

Vasim Khan, would you start us off? What have you chosen as a good read?

Well, first of all, thank you so much for inviting me on. So the read that I've chosen is called

The Best Exotic Maric Old Hotel by Deborah Mogad in its current incarnation, but it was first

published in 2004

as These Foolish Things. Now, the book is about a number of elderly English people who are

somehow convinced to go out to India in the early noughties to live in a guesthouse in Bangalore. And the scheme was

dreamed up by an Indian by the name of Sunny. And this was in response to a request from his,

from his friend Ravi, who is a doctor in London. Now, Ravi is married to an English woman and he has a

father-in-law by the name of Norman Perse. And Norman Perce is the most repulsive character you can

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