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The Novel That Changed My Life

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Well known figures each present a programme on the novel that changed their world

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The Novel That Changed My Life - A Man in Full

Mel Smith delves into a work by one of America's masters of fiction - A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe.

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The Novel That Changed My Life - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Cherie Blair presents Khaled Hosseini's powerful portrait of female suffering under the Taliban.

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The Novel That Changed My Life - Episode 2

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen immerses himself in the doomed fortunes of the Flyte family in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

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The Novel That Changed My Life - Episode 4

Kathy Lette delves into Thackeray's epic, Vanity Fair, a satirical picture of High Society at the dawn of the 19th century, set against the backdrop of the Battle of Waterloo.

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The Novel That Changed My Life - Episode 6

Alex James sets off on a fantastic adventure with young Jim Hawkins and the ruthless pirate, Long John Silver, in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

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The Novel That Changed My Life - On the Road

Vic Reeves chooses On the Road, Jack Kerouac's legendary account of a frenzied, liberating drive across America.

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