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Barbara Kingsolver, Alexander McCall Smith and why some novelists disappear
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Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with what Alexander McCall Smith reads (hint, there's a collection of poetry in his pocket), why Barbara Kingsolver reads at traffic lights, and Christopher Fowler on The Book of Forgotten Authors
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