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This episode - a conversation with Lorraine Smith - was recorded September 8, 2023. Here are the books we discussed or mentioned:
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson
Babel, Yellowface, and The Poppy War RF Kuang
Candide, Voltaire
Choosing to Run: A Memoir, Des Linden
Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
Outsider: An old man, a mountain and a search for a hidden past, Brent Popplewell
Star Wars – many authors; 1970s series by Alan Dean Foster
Sweetland and Galore Michael Crummey
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
Three against the wilderness Eric Collier
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