Will Self and Rachel Johnson

Writers Will Self and Rachel Johnson join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Raymond Carver, JR Ackerley and Doris Lessing.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: A collection of short stories by Raymond Carver. Publisher: Vintage

My Father and Myself, by JR Ackerley. Publisher: The New York Review of Books

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing Publisher: Fourth Estate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017.