On this week’s show, Claire speaks to Hannah Sullivan, fresh from her win at the TS Eliot prize with Three Poems. Then Sian and Claire sit down to discuss why some books get a second life in paperback.
Then Richard meets American soldier-turned-novelist Kevin Powers to discuss his second book, A Shout in the Ruins, which ties together two narratives: about a Virginian slave in the 1860s and a black nonagenarian travelling the segregated south in 1956.
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