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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: war stories, horror and democratic Islam

In our second Edinburgh International Book festival podcast, Sarah Crown asks Simon Mawer and Michèle Roberts why they both chose to set their latest books in France during the second world war, Xan Brooks talks to Louise Welsh about whether or not her latest novel can be called a haunted house story, and we speak to Maajid Nawaz about his changing view of Islam.

Reading list
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer
Ignorance by Michèle Roberts
The Girl on the Stairs by Louise Welsh
Radical by Maajid Nawaz

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