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Superfreakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:08

John Crace makes some startling discoveries about the economics of sequel-writing

Call for the Dead by John Le Carré | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:09:24

John Crace tails George Smiley's first outing as a spy, but whose side is he on?

The Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:28

John Crace unpicks The Authorized History of MI5 and feels the wool being pulled over his eyes

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:59

John Crace digests this year's Booker Prize winner: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:17

John Crace gets lost in thickets of leaden prose as he unravels the mysteries of Dan Brown's new crypto-thriller

Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:37

John Crace is cast adrift on the seas of Sylvia Townsend Warner's classic, Mr Fortune's Maggot

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:37

John Crace traces the evolution of the greatest scientist on earth in Richard Dawkins's latest Darwinian masterpiece

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:55

John Crace sets off in deadly pursuit of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:33

John Crace does obeisance before William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother

Atomised by Michel Houellebecq | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:00

John Crace endures an orgy of sex and philosophy as he wrestles his way out of the ashram

Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:20

John Crace goes to the Potteries

Starting Over by Tony Parsons | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:11:24

John Crace. Writes. In very. Short sentences.

Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:09

John Crace bids to become Master of the Novelverse

The Occupied City by David Peace | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:24

John Crace embarks on a a GLITZKRIEG of PRETENTIOUSNESS

The Golden Bowl by Henry James | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:21

John Crace builds some nodding-off breaks into his reading

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