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Top Crime book & Kate Fagan interview

Ep. 329

Today Philippa reviews: 

The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskey 

Tell Me a Dragon by Jackie Morris

Spring Unfurled by Angela Harding.

Plus Philippa interviews Kate Fagan about The Three Lives of Cate Kay.

Kate recommends:

Bel Canto by Ann Pratchett

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth.

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