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Looking back at 2022 and (re)discovering Bruno Schulz

Chris Power discusses a year in books and gets some seasonal recommendations from Ellah Wakatama and Kate Mosse.

Chris Power discusses a year in books and gets some seasonal recommendations from Ellah Wakatama and Kate Mosse, as well as looking forward to new releases.

Emma Barnett, Paddy O'Connell and Ritula Shah - some favourite Radio 4 voices - share what they have been reading in 2022.

And shining a new light on Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz with the translator behind a new edition of his short stories, Stanley Bill.

Reader: Tom Kiteley
Presenter: Chris Power
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

Book List
This is Not A Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
Colditz by Ben McIntyre
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
A Pelican at Blandings by P. G. Wodehouse
Putin's People by Catherine Belton
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
Desert Star by Michael Connelly
1989 by Val McDermid
The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna
Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Cloisters by Katy Hays (forthcoming)
Victory City by Salman Rushdie (forthcoming)
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson (forthcoming)
A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo (forthcoming)
Nocturnal Apparitions by Bruno Schulz, translated by Stanley Bill

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  • Sun 11 Dec 2022 16:00
  • Thu 15 Dec 2022 15:30

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