Dreda Say Mitchell & Emma Gannon

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Novelist Dreda Say Mitchell and the writer and podcaster Emma Gannon talk about their favourite books with Harriett. Dreda chooses An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole, a romance set during the American Civil War. Emma has gone for the mouth watering memoir Dinner with Edward by Isabel Vincent, and Harriett transports us to a very wet Scottish holiday in Sarah Moss' Summerwater. Producer Sally Heaven

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0:00.0	Things just swirling around my head.
0:03.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:06.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:11.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:13.4	I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift,
0:17.5	we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:22.8	They did know that I was different.
0:25.7	You had kids together.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:27.4	Then you met.
0:28.3	Then we met.
0:29.2	The Gift.
0:30.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:33.2	Hello, we've got romance in a time of civil war, food at a time of heartbreak, and a seriously wet holiday in Scotland.
0:41.4	With me to introduce a book they love are two writers.
0:44.6	Dreda Say Mitchell is the best-selling author of crime novels and thrillers, most recently Say Her Name,
0:50.3	co-written with her partner Ryan Carter and published just a couple of months ago.
0:54.9	Emma Gannon's books include the bestselling the multi-hyphen method and disconnected,
1:00.0	how to stay human in an online world. She's the author so far of one novel, Olive, and she hosts
1:05.9	the Careers podcast Control, Alt Delete. Greta say Mitchell, would you start us off? What's your choice of a
1:13.7	good read? A wonderful book called An Extraordinary Union by Elisa Cole. I got this in when it came out
1:21.1	in 2017 and I was just wowed by it. So it's a historical suspend stroke spy romance set
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