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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, in fiction and nonfiction, today's books explore a range of

relationships between women and men, including that between sex workers and their pimps in

post-World War I Marseille. With me to introduce their good read, our first Charlotte Proudman,

otherwise known as the feminist barrister. Charlotte represents women and girls in cases of

gender-based violence, particularly female genital mutilation, and is writing a book on the UK's

lack of FGM convictions. With her is the writer, photographer and broadcaster Johnny Pitts, author of

Afropian, Notes from Black Europe, curator of the online journal Afropian.com, and collaborator with

Carol Phillips on the photographic essay about London's immigrant communities. Johnny, would you like

to start us off? What is your choice of a good read?

Well, my book is one that added a real colour to my life in lockdown back in Sheffield

with my partner and my daughter in my mum's Terry's house. It's called Romance in Marseille,

and it's by the Jamaican and Harlem Renaissance poet and novelist Claude McKay. The novel begins in Marseille with a man called at Fala,

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