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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, today, mothers, music, murderous rage, three very different

good reads. And with me to introduce them, our first, the best-selling author Lisa Jewel,

whose 17 novels include Ralph's Party and, more recently, such dark psychological thrillers as then she was gone, and this year's The Family Upstairs.

With Lisa the prize-winning economics journalist Aditya Chacroboti, the Guardian's senior economics commentator, a regular on TV and radio, and currently working on his first book, or so he tells his publisher.

Aditya, your good read is.

My good read is Afternoon Rag by Amit Chaudhry.

This is the book that I foist upon my friends, and when I opened it to reread it for this programme,

I saw that on one of the early pages I had in a spasm of then undergraduate seriousness, written my name, the Oxford College at which I was then studying, and the summer of 1995, which is when I bought it.

And it's a strange thing, turn over the page and I can

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