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A Good Read: Kamila Shamsie and Jeffrey Archer

Series 1560, episode 0

Winner of this year's prize for Women's Fiction Kamila Shamsie and the former Conservative MP, former prison inmate and best-selling novelist Jeffrey Archer share their book choices with Harriett Gilbert. Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka, a comic tale about a Sri Lankan cricket journalist is chosen by Kamila, while Jeffrey discusses Fred Uhlman's Reunion set in pre-war Germany from 1971. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald from 1959 is Harriett's choice

Cast (unconfirmed)

Harriett Gilbert
Kamila Shamsie
Jeffrey Archer