Chris Tarrant and Mike Gayle
Broadcaster Chris Tarrant and writer Mike Gayle trade book suggestions with Harriett Gilbert, including autobiographies of a tennis player and a DJ.
OPEN by Andre Agassi
SONIC YOUTH SLEPT ON MY FLOOR by Dave Haslam
THE SECRET HOURS by Mick Herron
Television and radio broadcaster Chris Tarrant nominates the autobiography of tennis legend Andre Agassi, and novelist Mike Gayle has gone for Dave Haslam鈥檚 memoir of his time spent DJing at Manchester鈥檚 famous Hacienda. Harriett is hoping the two of them will enjoy an espionage novel by Slow Horses author Mick Herron.
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