World Book Night 2020 with Brian Wood, Sally Nicholls and The Reading Agency

NOTE - The audio in this show has been slightly updated to reflect the current situation

This week we look forward to World Book Night by exploring some of the top titles in its great book giveaway.

Debbie Hicks of The Reading Agency sets the scene and tells us all about World Book Night. (Starts at 1.20)

 

Brian Wood takes us from the battlefields of Iraq to the trials of the courtroom in his memoir ‘Double Crossed’. (8.00)

Robert Kirkwood tells us about the free World Book Night audiobooks and goes hitchhiking through some other rollicking reads in the RNIB Library. (28.30)

 

Sally Nicholls imagines the lives of three young Suffragettes in ‘Things a Bright Girl Can Do’. (37.10)

And we return to Brian Wood for the Books of his Life. (48.30)