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The popularity of memoirs

Why are readers so hungry for memoirs? Jim Crace and Blake Morrison discuss

Why are readers so hungry for memoirs? Jim Crace and Blake Morrison talk about the modern publishing phenomenon.

Also on the programme: Kiran Desai's beautifully odd debut novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, the short-listed writers for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in Jamaica and Noel Malcolm's book Kosovo: A Short History

Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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29 minutes

91热爆 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project