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#332 Russian spies, climate law and literary politics

The Week Unwrapped - with Olly Mann

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How to Read a Book for Pleasure

I have not read a book for pleasure in a really long time I mean I read all books for pleasure but I've been reading a lot of you know a lot of geopoties apart from give us a geopolitical book that we can read on the beach. Cobalt Red is about the situation in the Congo where human beings are really suffering in the cobalt mining industry and it was a really powerful read. Jamie Timson recommends Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Such A Fun Age by Kylie Reed and Mr Wilder and me by Jonathan Koe. Julia mine is a short story called Open Water by Caleb Azuma Nelson and it's basically it's a love letter to southeast London

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