Harriett Gilbert and her guests - actress and author, Dame Sheila Hancock and journalist, Cosmo Landesman - discuss their favourite books by Toby Young, John Williams and Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Stoner by John Williams
Publisher: Vintage
How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
Publisher: Abacus
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher: Virago
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.