Arts
New year, new panellist. Our merry band save you a lot of precious time by naming the books you don't need to bother reading, Esme and Amy (and Producer Fred) admit to never having read 1984, and Jordan shares his controversial One-book policy. Plus we respond to your book-related troubles. Books (vaguely) discussed: Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman, 1984 - George Orwell, The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Outsider - Albert Camus, The Plague - Albert Camus, the complete works of Graham Greene, My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante, War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy, Emma - Jane Austen, The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare, Great Expectations - Charles Dickens, Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf, The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka.