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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, with me today, the actor and writer Arabella Weir, whose

numerous TV credits include Two Doors Down, Posh Nosh and The Fast Show. She's also the

author of five novels and the sellout One Woman Show, Does My Mum Loom Big in this? With Arabella,

the playwright, memoirist and novelist, Deborah Levy, whose fictions include swimming home, hot milk,

and most recently the man who saw everything. Deborah's also published two autobiographical works,

Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living.

Arabella, where?

Would you start?

Your choice of good read, please, is what?

My choice of good read is the sellout by Paul Beattie,

a black American novelist,

and it's the leap of faith. faith no it's the leap of imagination that

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