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The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:10:56

John Crace has a quick dip into the Booker prize-winning novel

Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:15

John Crace looks at the author's memories of life with Harold Pinter, with the pauses taken out

The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:00

John Crace makes a quick study of a depraved academic

Candleford Green by Flora Thompson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:39

John Crace makes a Sunday night feelgood costume drama

You Need This Book to Get What You Want by Mark Palmer and Scott Solder | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:45

John Crace helps himself

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:10:10

The unbearable lightness of trying to be Milan Kundera gets to John Crace as he swallows his classic text

Driven to Distraction by Clarkson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:53

John Crace takes journalism's monster truck for a spin and writes him off

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:10:29

John Crace experiments wi skaggie an aw tha'

Delia's Happy Christmas by Delia Smith | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:49

John Crace reheats some leftover recipes

The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:54

John Crace explores his thespian side

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:29

'How dare you, sir!' Edith Wharton's 1870s portrait of high-class New York mores is taken downtown by John Crace

The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:45

John Crace becomes tragically incoherent

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:09:03

John Crace reminds us that there's no I in socalsm or totaltaransm

Meltdown by Ben Elton | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:21

Ben Elton's new novel, set in a world of financial mayhem, suffers a severe crash in the hands of John Crace

The Humbling by Philip Roth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:27

John Crace attempts to believe in a smooth-talking 65-year-old 'lesbo converter', but he can't keep it up

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