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Best books of 2013 with Hermione Lee and Patrick Barkham – podcast | Books | The Guardian
We round up the pick of this year's titles for adults and grown-ups alike, and hear from the biographer Hermione Lee as well as the nature writer Patrick Barkham
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Guardian first book award winner Donal Ryan – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
We talk to readers, judges and the 2013 winner Donal Ryan at the Guardian first book award ceremony
http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/nov/29/guardian-first-book-award-donal-ryan-podcast
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The stuff of creation – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
Literature may only be words, words, words, but readers flock to houses where writers such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens once lived. Why are we so keen to examine the objects our favourite authors leave behind?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/nov/22/stuff-creation-writers-objects-podcast
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Revolutionary women – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
Jung Chang makes the case for China's Empress Dowager Cixi, while Rachel Cooke argues that women did more than the washing up in the 1950s
http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/nov/15/revolutionary-women-books-podcast
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William Boyd on James Bond – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
Wiiliam Boyd talks to John Mullan about the troubled soul of Ian Fleming's James Bond and the pleasures and perils of taking on the 007 franchise
http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/nov/08/james-bond-william-boyd-podcast
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Alternatives to capitalism – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
What are the alternatives to global capitalism? We go in search of answers with Dan Hancox, John Vidal and the novelist Eugen Ruge
http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/oct/25/alternatives-capitalism-marinaleda-books-podcast
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Letters of Hemingway and Isherwood, with Simon Garfield – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
Letters from Ernest Hemingway and Christopher Isherwood give us an intimate portrait of their lives, while Simon Garfield traces the art of letter writing through the ages
http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/oct/18/hemingway-isherwood-letters-garfield-podcast
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Migration with Jhumpa Lahiri, NoViolet Bulawayo and Paul Collier – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
Two Booker-shortlisted migrants, Jhumpa Lahiri and NoViolet Bulawayo, explore the global dislocations in their fiction, while the economist Paul Collier counts the cost of migration
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Simon Armitage, water and the ocean’s rising tide – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
We take the plunge with Simon Armitage's water poems, Callum Roberts's prescription to save our oceans and a new tale from the riverbank
http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/oct/04/simon-armitage-water-ocean-rising-tide-podcast