Penelope Lively and Will Smith

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - novelist, Dame Penelope Lively and comedy writer, Will Smith - discuss their favourite books by John Kennedy Toole, Barry Lopez and Kingsley Amis.

‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ by John Kennedy Toole Publisher: Penguin

‘Arctic Dreams’ by Barry Lopez Publisher: Penguin

‘Lucky Jim’ by Kingsley Amis Publisher: Harvill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2014.