Writers Will Self and Rachel Johnson join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Raymond Carver, JR Ackerley and Doris Lessing.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: A collection of short stories by Raymond Carver. Publisher: Vintage
My Father and Myself, by JR Ackerley. Publisher: The New York Review of Books
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing Publisher: Fourth Estate
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017.