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Misha Glenny and Anne Marie Huby

Louise Doughty, Misha Glenny and Anne-Marie Huby discuss books by James Lee Burke, EM Forster and Robert Musil. From 2001.

**** Tie-in with 4 Extra's broadcast of Howard's End this week.

Writer, Misha Glenny and co-founder and MD of Justgiving, Anne Marie Huby join Louise Doughty to discuss their favourite paperbacks by James Lee Burke, EM Forster and Robert Musil.

Purple Cane Road by James Lee Burke
Publisher: Orion

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
Publisher: Picador

Howard's End by EM Forster
Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001.

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