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Baroness Blackstone and Julian Le Grand

Sarah LeFanu, Baroness Blackstone and Julian Le Grand discuss JM Coetzee, Patrick O'Brian and Jane Gardam. From September 1999.

Sarah LeFanu and her guests, Minister for Education and Employment Baroness Blackstone (1997-2001) and lecturer and broadcaster Julian Le Grand, discuss three favourite paperbacks by JM Coetzee, Patrick O'Brian and Jane Gardam. From 1999.

Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee
Publisher: Vintage

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins

Going into a Dark House - by Jane Gardam
Publisher: Abacus.

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