Featured books
Take a look at the books highlighted by guests throughout the series.
Episode 1
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Alexander Armstrong
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Debt to Pleasure - John Lanchester
Mr Standfast - John Buchan
Complete Works of Shakespeare - Alexander Text
Pamela Stephenson
Cupid and Psyche: Usborne Greek Myths for Young Children
Primal Scream: Primal Therapy: the Cure for Neurosis - Arthur Janov
The Odyssey - Homer
Carry On Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
Episode 2
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Chris Hollins
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
Bounce - Matthew Syed
Rich: The Life of Richard Burton - Melvyn Bragg
Shoot Annual 1975
Natascha McElhone
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Nights and the Circus - Angela Carter
Episode 3
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Nicky Haslam
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas - Gertrude Stein
Jean Howard's Hollywood - Jean Howard
A Legacy - Sybille Bedford
Versailles - Ian Dunlop
Anna Chancellor
Bella - Jilly Cooper
The Continuum Concept - Jean Liedloff
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Ladder of Years - Anne Tyler
Episode 4
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Sir Tim Rice
The Code of the Woosters - P G Wodehouse
Conquest of Space - Willy Ley & Chesley Bonestell
From Here to Eternity - James Jones
Pip - Ian Hay
Russell Grant
Ingrid - Charlotte Chandler
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
The Victioria the County History of Middlesex
A History of the Reign of Queen Anne - John Hillburton
Episode 5
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Pam Ayres
Just William - Richmal Crompton
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle -ÌýDavid Wroblewski
The Secret Of How To Win Freedom From Clutter - Don Aslett
Self Sufficiency - John Seymour
Don Warrington
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Everyman - Philip Roth
Episode 6
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Kate Silverton
My Favourite Animal Stories - Gerald Durrell
The Burning Shore - Wilbur Smith
Daughter of the Desert - Georgina Howell
I Don’t know How She Does It - Allison Pearson
Chris Addison
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
The Golden Gate - Vikram Seth
The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe
Episode 7
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Phil Davis
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Mersey Sound - Adrian Henri, Roger Mcgough and Brian Patten
Any Human Heart - William Boyd
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Junior
Rosie Boycott
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Episode 8
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Alexandra Shulman
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
The White Album - Joan Didion
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Best of Everything - Rona Jaffe
Keith Allen
The Secret Seven - Enid Blyton
Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
Unemployed Struggles 1919 - 36 - Wal Hannington
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
Episode 9
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Robert Peston
Bel Ami - Guy de Maupassant
McNaughten - Sian Busby
Winnie The Pooh - A.A. Milne & E.H. Shepard
Greenmantle - John Buchan
Sharon Gless
The Little Engine that Could - Watty Piper
Selected Poems by Edna St Vincent Malley - Edna St Vincent Millay
A Round Heeled Woman - Jane Juska
Cagney & Lacey - Barney Rosenzweig
Episode 10
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Rick Stein
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Rudyard Kipling
Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
Lord Jim -ÌýJoseph Conrad
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
Fiona Shaw
Alice in Wonderland -ÌýLewis Carroll
Selected Diaries - Virginia Woolf
W. B Yeats: Selected Poems - W.B Yeats
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
