Samantha Bond and Jason Cowley

Actress Samantha Bond and editor of The New Statesman, Jason Cowley join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite novels by Donna Tartt, Joseph Conrad and Hamid Ismailov.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt Publisher Penguin

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad Publisher Penguin

The Dead Lake' by Hamid Ismailov translated by Andrew Bromfield Publisher Peirene

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2016.