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World Service,05 May 1998,28 mins

The popularity of memoirs

Meridian

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Why are readers so hungry for memoirs? Jim Crace and Blake Morrison talk about the modern publishing phenomenon. Also on the programme: Kiran Desai's beautifully odd debut novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, the short-listed writers for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in Jamaica and Noel Malcolm's book Kosovo: A Short History Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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