BBC World Service Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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South African author Damon Galgut has won the #BookerPrize with The Promise. It centres on the unfulfilled promise of a white farming family to give their black maid the house she lives in. He spoke to us recently about exploring apartheid in his writing https://t.co/YEQKoo4up3

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"The answer was very, very simple." Seventy years ago, Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA, revolutionising our understanding of life on Earth https://t.co/CCwMBrgaBP

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Meet the mother and daughter team helping to herd the UK’s only free-ranging herd of reindeer, in the Scottish Highlands. Tilly Smith went to spend the summer working with the herd in 1981... and she never left 🦌 https://t.co/o3thCx50FU https://t.co/TJ4Ong4Mve

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Sue Brierley’s adopted son Saroo had become lost as a child in India. Every night Sue would send his birth mother thoughts, sharing his progress. Then, unbelievably, Saroo managed to find his birth mum, using Google Earth - a story told in the film, Lion https://t.co/1S56o63iyH https://t.co/zVXG99ZGss

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How do you create a fictional universe? Neil Gaiman, author of Stardust, American Gods and many other popular fiction titles has some ideas... https://t.co/H0vqNC9ZPo

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"The Ukrainians won't give in. They will fight to the end." Two volunteers from the UK describe what it's like to fight side by side with the Ukraine military there, at the heart of the Russian attacks https://bit.ly/3HZLa5C

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One of Agatha Christie's most beloved characters is about to be resurrected. Follow @katemosse and @DredaMBE as they get inside the mind of detective, Miss Marple... 🕵️👇 https://t.co/We5LV4FiN4

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Argentinian writer Marina Enríquez describes her book as "weird, horror and fantastic". The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is nominated for the International Booker Prize. What made her write this unsettling book? https://bbc.in/3fSFtKU @TheBookerPrizes

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Albert Woodfox, the former US prison inmate who spent 43 years in solitary confinement has died aged 75. When he spoke with us in 2019, he said "it's hard to find words to imagine the trauma of being confined to a 9ft by 6ft cell" https://t.co/Q60aNYTGfU

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A Brief History of Time is the best-selling book written by the renowned theoretical physicist Prof Stephen Hawking. First published in 1988, what made this book so popular? https://t.co/Mo7BLzriJM