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The books we are ashamed to have read

Ciara Eastell and Kevin Crossley-Holland spoke on the Today programme about books they were embarrassed to have read when they were younger

Librarians in Japan are furious that a newspaper has published the school library record of one of the country's best known authors, Haruki Murakami.
Presenter Sarah Montague asked president of the Society of Chief Librarians, Ciara Eastell, and former winner of the Guardian children鈥檚 fiction prize, Kevin Crossley-Holland, what the ethical ramifications of divulging such records might be and if there were any books they were embarrassed to have read when they were younger.

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