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Writers Will Self and Rachel Johnson join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Raymond Carver, JR Ackerley and Doris Lessing.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love:
A collection of short stories by Raymond Carver.
Publisher: Vintage

My Father and Myself, by JR Ackerley.
Publisher: The New York Review of Books

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Publisher: Fourth Estate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017.