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Hilary Mantel reading from Wolf Hall
Posted On: December 4, 2009
Posted In: Audio, Extracts
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Hilary Mantel reading from <i>Wolf Hall</i>

Enjoy this Bookhugger audio exclusive – Hilary Mantel reading from the Man Booker Prize 2009 winning Wolf Hall. Running time: 13 minutes.

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Michael Slater on Charles Dickens
Posted On: December 2, 2009
Posted In: Audio, Classics
Publisher: Yale University Press
Michael Slater on Charles Dickens

In this Bookhugger exclusive, Michael Slater reads from his new biography of Charles Dickens, the first major life of the novelist to appear in nearly twenty years.

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Seamus Heaney reads The Underground
Posted On: August 24, 2009
Posted In: Video
Publisher: Faber
Seamus Heaney reads The Underground

Seamus Heaney reads his poem The Underground at the offices of his publisher, Faber, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and Faber’s eightieth.

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