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My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.

The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that.

With music on sounds, we offer collections and mixes for everything, from workouts to

helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put

together by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music in your life,

check out BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, today is a new

book prize the answer to dwindling sales of literary fiction in India. And the loveless Joanna

Glenn shares her passion for Lorca's sexually symbolic use of imagery from the natural world.

But we begin with the man who saw everything,

the eighth novel from a writer whose star burns brighter than ever.

Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home,

continues her reign of intellectual originality with her latest offering.

Through historian Saul Adler, her beautiful, blue-eyed, black-haired,

extremely unreliable narrator, she investigates the notion of personal culpability against the

sweep of history. The story begins in 1988 on the Abbey Road crossing immortalised by the Beatles,

with a recurring and pivotal event.

I was thinking about how Jennifer Moreau had told me I was to never describe her beauty,

not to her or to anyone else. When I asked her why, she said,

because you only have old words to describe me.

This was on my mind when I stepped onto the zebra crossing with its black and white stripes.

A car was coming towards me, but it did not stop.

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