Martina Cole and Janet Street Porter

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - journalist, Janet Street Porter, and crime writer, Martina Cole - discuss their favourite books by Curtis Sittenfeld, Maurice Druon and Muriel Spark. 'American Wife' by Curtis Sittenfeld Publisher: Penguin

'The Iron King' by Maurice Druon Publisher: Doubleday

'The Ballad of Peckham Rye' by Muriel Spark Publisher: Harper Collins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.