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Libby Purves


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Libby Purves is a writer and also a broadcaster who has presented the talk programme Midweek on Radio 4 since 1984 and formerly presented Today. She is a main columnist on the Times and in 1999 was named the Granada "What the Papers Say" Columnist of the Year, and awarded a O.B.E for services to journalism. She lives in Suffolk with her husband the broadcaster and writer Paul Heiney.
 
 
Novels
   Casting Off (1995)
   A Long Walk in Wintertime (1996)
   Home Leave (1997)
   More Lives Than One (1998)
   Regatta (1999)
   Nature's Masterpiece (2000)
   Passing Go (2000)
   A Free Woman (2001)
   Mother Country (2002)
   Continental Drift (2003)
   Acting Up (2004)
   Love Songs and Lies (2007)
   Shadow Child (2009)
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Collections
   Grumpers' Farm (1996) (with Paul Heiney)
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Picture Books show
 
Non fiction show
 


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