Mark Ravenhill and DJ Nihal

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - playwright, Mark Ravenhill and DJ, Nihal Arthanayake - discuss favourite books by James Ellroy, Nadine Gordimer and Wolfgang von Goethe.

Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Publisher: Oxford World Classics

American Tabloid by James Ellroy Publisher: Windmill Books

July's People by Nadine Gordimer Publisher: Bloomsbury

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013.