Children of the Arbat

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A review of Children of the Arbat by Anatoly Rybakov. The novel had been banned by the Soviet authorities but is now a bestseller, a year after publication. Also featured in the programme, Isabel Colgate's new novel The Deceits of Time about a biographer writing the official life of a minor 1930s British politician with a murky past, a new biography of John Lennon by Albert Goldman and Frank Moorhouse's new novel Forty Seventeen. Presenter: Christopher Cook.