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A comedy about radical Islam (seriously); our manufactured world; a motherhood mystery: an eclectic selection of book suggestions from @drjuliashaw.bsky.social Hayaatun Sillem & me on today’s A Good Read, 3pm on BBC Radio 4; online thereafter @nussaibah.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A daring comedy debut about de-radicalisation, an investigation of manufacturing & an unsettling novella. Psychologist @drjuliashaw.bsky.social engineer @HayaatunSillem & @harriettsg.bsky.social recommend #books they love. A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 #BBC www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Especially if you’re an elder sister, a great episode of @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social with Oyinkan Braithwaite chatting with readers about My Sister the Serial Killer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Books by Carol Shields, Umberto Eco & Abdulrazak Gurnah are the choices of @harriettsg.bsky.social & her A Good Read guests, neuroscientist Sophie Scott and writer Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social 3pm @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds Producer Becky Ripley www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Tennis, spies and Sonic Youth: the usual wild variety of book suggestions from Chris Tarrant, author Mike Gayle and me on A Good Read 3pm today @BBCRadio4 Come join us

#Books Chris Tarrant and Mike Gayle A Good Read Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 Chris Tarrant nominates OPEN by Andre Agassi Mike Gayle has gone for SONIC YOUTH SLEPT ON MY FLOOR by Dave Haslam @harriettsg.bsky.social‬ selects THE SECRET HOURS by Mick Herron www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Two memoirs and a thriller today on A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds as TV presenter Chris Tarrant & writer Mike Gayle join @harriettsg.bsky.social to champion #books they love. Tennis, DJing & espionage. Producer Sally Heaven www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Cannibal mothers; sex; fanaticism: novelist Sarah Waters and filmmaker Walter Murch introduce the usual heterogeneous mix of books on #agoodread @BBCRadio4 3pm today, online thereafter www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Looking for some book inspiration? A Good Read @BBCRadio4 is back - with a riveting roster of readers. Today, novelist Sarah Waters & film editor Walter Murch join @harriettsg.bsky.social to talk bears, fanaticism & Irish women. 3pm Mon 13 Oct. Producer Maggie Ayre. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

ICYMI Perfect for Halloween @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social chats with @silviamg.bsky.social about her fun, creepy novel Mexican Gothic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

You can hear Silvia Moreno-Garcia talk about 'Mexican Gothic' on World Book Club this Saturday, meanwhile here's a taster for you. Speaking of taste, I now want to try those pastes so badly... #booksky #gothic #horror #mexicangothic #silviamorenogarcia #wbc #bbc #history

@sherlockholmesmag.co.uk ICYMI Some great chat about Holmes, Watson, the Baskerville Hound and more with fans from around the world www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

The recent Arthur Conan Doyle episode of the wonderful BBC World Book Club was so marvelous! It was live at a bookshop in Edinburgh - the panelists were superb, the questions from around the world were excellent, and the Baskerville hound was just as terrifying as ever! Thx @harriettsg.bsky.social

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#Books A Good Read @BBCRadio4 #OnDemand RUNNING WITH SCISSORS by Augusten Burroughs, chosen by @robrinder.bsky.social‬ THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY by Vivian Gornick, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social‬ EARTHLINGS by Sayaka Murata, chosen by @junodawson.bsky.social‬ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Fiction from Japan, a #memoir of adolescence & essays on New York life in today’s A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 The barrister & writer @robrinder.bsky.social & author @junodawson.bsky.social talk #books with @harriettsg.bsky.social Producer Sally Heaven #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A totally weird Japanese novel; thoughts from NY; Augusten Burroughs' memoir: intriguing book suggestions from Rob Rinder & Juno Dawson on A Good Read, @BBCRadio4 3pm today; online thereafter. Come and join us

By the first of August the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and was no color — no more than the sand was a color and we had worn our bare feet bare since the twentieth of June - Anne Sexton #poetry

Zadie Smith & Colm Tóibín join @harriettsg.bsky.social for today’s A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 A devoted father in Colombia, a modern-day picaresque through London, and a languid summer romance. Produced by Eliza Lomas #books #fiction #memoir www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books A Good Read Mon 15:00 BBC Radio 4 THE TRUCE by Primo Levi, chosen by @horatioclare.bsky.social‬ THE SUN DOES SHINE by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin, chosen by @joannahs.bsky.social‬ SULA by Toni Morrison, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social‬ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Need some summer #reading inspiration? Join writer @horatioclare.bsky.social criminal defence barrister @joannahs.bsky.social & presenter @harriettsg.bsky.social to hear about the #books that have inspired them. A Good Read 3pm Mon 21 July @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@harriettsg.bsky.social + A Good Read have done it again! While I often have little interest in the books or topics, the guests and the discussions are unfailingly riveting, and I always learn so much! I listen to over 40 podcasts and this is one of the absolute best. Can't wait for each one. Thx!

The late Fleur Adcock's 2010 collection #DragonTalk will be discussed on A Good Read today, 14 July, chosen by host @harriettsg.bsky.social. Harriett Gilbert is joined by Desiree Akhavan & @rosiewilby.bsky.social. Tune in to BBC Radio 4 📻 at 3pm or listen later. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Female desire, the challenges of monogamy and whether life is over at 45. A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 @harriettsg.bsky.social is joined by filmmaker Desiree Akhavan & writer comedian @rosiewilby.bsky.social on the programme that is polyamorous for books #fiction #books www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books A Good Read Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 @herdyshepherd.bsky.social‬ picks is THE IRON AGE by Arja Kajermo Kiri Pritchard-McLean picks is A SHORT STAY IN HELL by Steven L Peck @harriettsg.bsky.social‬ picks STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL by Charlotte Wood www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Good Read @hayfestival.bsky.social with guests James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social & @kiripritchardmc.bsky.social who join @harriettsg.bsky.social for some lively disagreement about novels set in Finland, Australia - and Hell. 3pm Mon 7 July @BBCRadio4 #books www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

To mark 100 years of #MrsDalloway, Fiona Shaw explores Three Transformations of Virginia #Woolf 9am Tues @BBCRadio4 with Michael Cunningham, Mark Haddon @naomialderman.bsky.social Sally Potter & Alexandra Harris. Readings by Gwendoline Christie. Producer Ellie Richold www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Good Read - drummer Budgie & novelist Juhea Kim join @harriettsg.bsky.social to discuss favourite books by #Sartre #EvgenyVodolazkin & #JennyErpenbeck set in #France medieval #Russia & #Berlin 3pm Mon 30 June @BBCRadio4 Producer Maggie Ayre #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books A Good Read Mon 15:00 BBC Radio 4 WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT by Sarah Winman, chosen by Harry Trevaldwyn THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho, chosen by Xantoné Blacq JAMES by Percival Everett, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social‬ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books A Good Read Mon 15:00 BBC Radio 4 BIG SWISS by Jen Beagin, chosen by @nussaibah.bsky.social A HEART SO WHITE by Javier Marías, chosen by Josh Cohen THE END OF EDDY by Edouard Louis, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books N.K Jemisin World Book Club @harriettsg.bsky.social puts your questions to the mutli-award winning sci-fi author N.K Jemisin, about her novel 'The City We Became'. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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Come work for us. As Grants and Prizes Administrator you will be trained on the administration of a diverse list of prizes, including the SoA Awards, Translation Prizes, and external prizes such as the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award.

Great to meet @harriettsg.bsky.social and Desiree Akhavan to record a conversation about female sexuality, desire, Miranda July’s book All Fours and much more for Radio 4’s A Good Read. Listen out for it on July 14 📚 📻 🧠 ❤️ #books #sex #allfours

‘And I thought - yes, that's how it is going to be from now on: The hare of his soul always there, when I least expect it Popping up out of nowhere, sitting still.’ Very sad to hear that the great Irish poet Paul Durcan has died. This is quite a poem. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Down the road someone is practising scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails. Man's heart expands to tinker with his car For this is Sunday morning, Fate's great bazaar - Sunday Morning, #LouisMacNeice #poetry

On World Book Club this month @harriettsg.bsky.social sits down with Nobel Laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah, to discuss his novel ‘Paradise’ - @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

From the archive, 11 years ago: #Top10 Last Sentences of Novels independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

I’m an idiot. Apparently this is AI created. What is it they say? If it sounds/looks too good to be true, it probably is

The young Beatrix Potter with pet rabbit Peter. What an terrific artist she was

ICYMI: Penguin Books has announced it will install a series of book boxes, which it is calling "90 Little Book Stops", in communities across the UK.👇 #BookSky

#Books Michelle De Kretser World Book Club Sat 5 Apr 2025 12:06 Local time BBC World Service @harriettsg.bsky.social talks with Michelle De Kretser about her 8th novel, and winner the 2023 Rathbones Folio Fiction Prize 'Scary Monsters'. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Books, books, books: today Douglas Stuart & Sian Eleri discuss books they love on A Good Read. The American West; a Yugoslav prison island; somewhere, some time in the future.... Join us after the 3pm news on BBC Radio 4 or any time thereafter via BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books A Good Read Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN by Chris Cleave, chosen by Lucy Speed THE HUMAN FACTOR by Graham Greene, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social 253 by Geoff Ryman, chosen by @sazzymills.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Good Read - The Archers actor Lucy Speed & comedian @sazzymills.bsky.social join @harriettsg.bsky.social to discuss favourite novels about the Blitz, spies and the London Underground 3pm Mon 24 March @BBCRadio4 Producer Sally Heaven #fiction #books www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Three (almost) entirely different books, each terrific in its own way. Make it a date

Lire 15 minutes par jour ? Oui pour le cerveau, oui surtout pour trouver un refuge loin de l’ouragan mondial. Un billet de Sabrina Champenois :

Some original writing from William Boyd for Radio 4 - set on the Isle ofJura, it’s a whodunnit for George Orwell fans. #BBCRadio4 #thejuraaffair #orwell #booksky - all episodes on BBC Sounds: