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Kirsty Gunn, Caroline's Bikini with Donna Freed AUTHOR of the Week on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - June 13, 2018 14:10 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Kirsty Gunn rips it up and starts again with each of her books, wrenching original novels out of her imagination. Her latest, a comedy about the impossible perfection of unrequited love, leaves as much out as in… much like a bikini! www.kirsty-gunn.com #RadioGorgeous #CarolinesBikini #Comedy...

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S. K. Perry, Let Me Be Like Water with Donna Freed AUTHOR OF THE WEEK on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - April 25, 2018 10:58 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
S. K. Perry, Let Me Be Like Water with Donna Freed Poet and author, Sarah Perry has written a poetic novel about grief and growing up. Set in the achingly painful and chaotic year after Holly's partner of 5 years dies, the novel explores what it is for a young woman to accept her grief and find...

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Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - April 25, 2018 08:05 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Heather Morris, The Tattoist of Auschwitz with Donna Freed It was important to Lale Sokolov, who survived Auschwitz by working as the tattooist, marking each entrant to the camp, that someone who had no preconceptions tell his story. And so Heather Morris spent many hours over many months liste...

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Bonnie MacBird, Unquiet Spirits with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - April 11, 2018 10:27 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Author of the Week: Bonnie MacBird, Unquiet Spirits with Donna Freed The second of Bonnie MacBird's faithful, full length Sherlock Holmes novels is infused with the ghostly presences of the past history of the MacLaren whiskey family and Sherlock himself. The explosive adventure travels through...

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Holly Black, The Cruel Prince with Donna Freed - Author Interview on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - March 21, 2018 11:07 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Holly Black, The Cruel Prince with Donna Freed Holly Black is the prolific writer of young adult fantasy fiction: she is best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), The Modern Faerie Tale series and the Magesterium series (with Cassandra Clare). The Cruel Prince is the prop...

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Madeleine Reiss, Before We Say Goodbye with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - March 09, 2018 14:31 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Reads: Madeleine Reiss, Before We Say Goodbye with Donna Freed A perfect tearjerker for Mother's Day. Scott is only 19, but his heart transplant is failing. His mother has always put everything aside to care for him, but what will she do when he's gone. Scott has a plan to find someone...

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Alex Hourston, Love After Love with Donna Freed AUTHOR OF THE WEEK on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - March 08, 2018 16:23 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Author of the Week: Alex Hourston, Love After Love with Donna Freed Alex's latest trixy heroine is a mother, therapist, wife, sister, daughter and now lover. Despite what she thinks, she cannot have it all when her various roles collide. Alex Hourston excels at propulsive and emotional explorat...

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Linda Nolan, From My Heart with Donna Freed GORGEOUS LIVES

Radio Gorgeous - March 07, 2018 15:59 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Lives: Linda Nolan, From My Heart with Donna Freed After all the drama: the Nolan Sisters break up, her sister and husband died, she was caught out as a benefits cheat, her own breast cancer and depression, Linda bears all and embraces life in the face of secondary breast cancer. Don...

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Karena Johnson, Director Female Parts: Shorts with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - March 05, 2018 12:48 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Entertainment: Karena Johnson, Director Female Parts: Shorts with Donna Freed Karena Johnson talks about Hoxton Hall's female centred festival culminating in three short plays she is directing: A Woman Alone, The Immigrant and A Mother. Each of these one woman pieces play with stereoty...

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Katie Fforde, A Country Escape with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - February 22, 2018 14:45 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Reads: Katie Fforde, A Country Escape with Donna Freed Katie's latest heroine, Fran, moves to the country to run a dairy farm, only problem: petrified of cows! As per usual, there are some other obstacles but both Fran and Katie, show their love of the countryside and its unique enviro...

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Self-Care for the Real World: Nadia Narain & Katia Narain Phillips with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - January 30, 2018 15:06 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Wellbeing: Self-Care for the Real World by Nadia Narain & Katia Narain Phillips with Donna Freed After years of fads and the shoulds and shouldn'ts of self-improvement/punishment, sisters Nadia (yoga teacher to the stars) and Katia (raw food restauranteur) yearned for a kinder approach...

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Emma Hall, Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - January 16, 2018 14:08 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Entertainment: Emma Hall, Producer: Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties Emma has a mission: produce powerfully entertaining and though provoking theatre that addresses gender imbalances and encourages young people to work in all aspects of the theatre. As Peter Hall's daughter, she...

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Ellyn Daniels, Emotional Terrorism with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - November 27, 2017 15:34 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Entertainment: Ellyn Daniels' Emotional Terrorism with Donna Freed In her one-woman show, Ellyn Daniels charts her life of Paris runways; ballet dancing; world travel; parties at Hollywood mansions and the dark underbelly of this seemingly glamorous life: bulimia; blacking out; and sitt...

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Photographer Ian Hoskin with Donna Freed MAN WEEK on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - November 22, 2017 14:19 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
GORGEOUS LIVES: Photographer Ian Hoskin, Ladies First with Donna Freed Ladies First is a photographic essay first undertaken by Ian for his thesis project but put aside. He came across the images 30 years later and realised how little had changed. Meaningful change can only come from dialogue; t...

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Nicola Upson, Nine Lessons with Donna Freed CRIME WRITER on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - November 21, 2017 12:03 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
GORGEOUS READS: Nicola Upson, Nine Lessons with Donna Freed Nicola Upson weaves fact and fiction throughout her Josephine Tey mysteries; she incorporates what is known of the real life Golden Age crime writer and casts her in the role of detective. Upson's triumph is to not only resurrect histor...

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Olivia Jacobs, director The Gruffalo's Child with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - November 16, 2017 13:21 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
GORGEOUS ENTERTAINMENT: Director Olivia Jacobs, The Gruffalo's Child with Donna Freed Olivia first co-directed The Gruffalo as a travelling show in a fringe basement but my look how it's grown. Her production company, Tall Stories which she co-founded with Toby Mitchell in 1997 is now bringing T...

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Maria Alyokhina, Pussy Riot with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - November 14, 2017 13:14 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Riot: Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot with Donna Freed Saatchi Gallery: Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism showcasing 25 years of Russian protest art from November 16 - December 31, 2017 Pussy Riot went viral after Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were imprisoned for performing for...

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Kate Griffen, Kitty Peck and the Daughter of Sorrow with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - October 19, 2017 14:12 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Author of the Week: Kate Griffin: Kitty Peck and the Daughter of Sorrow with Donna Freed The third of four in the Kitty Peck Mysteries finds our plucky heroine (a la Vanity Fair's Becky Sharp from the gutter) in charge of the Paradise empire of music halls and various other criminal enterprises ...

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Elizabeth Kostova The Shadow Land with Donna Freed AUTHOR on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - October 10, 2017 13:50 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Reads: Elizabeth Kostova The Shadow Land with Donna Freed From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present—and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. www.elizabethkostova.com #Bulgaria #TheShad...

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Sarah Franklin, SHELTER with Donna Freed AUTHOR on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - September 29, 2017 10:10 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Author of the Week: Sarah Franklin, SHELTER, with Donna Freed Set in the Forest of Dean in the spring of 1944, Shelter is the debut novel from Sarah Franklin, 2 time judge of the Costa Short Story Award, founder & host of Short Stories Aloud and lecturer in publishing at Oxford Brooks . The Fo...

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Naomi Lloyd, Photographer, Writer and Diamond Philosopher with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - September 14, 2017 12:54 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Entrepreneurs: Naomi Lloyd, Photographer, Writer and Diamond Philospher Naomi is a multi-faceted woman of many interests and talents: photographer, writer, diamond philospher and charitable ambassador for YouCanFree.Us, working to liberate trafficked women. Her diamond philosphy came a...

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Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks STEAM PUNK NOVEL with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - September 12, 2017 11:04 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley continues in the high fantasy, steampunk style with her second novel The Bedlam Stacks. She sees the Victorian age as a perfect place for magic, and in Bedlam, she emerses us in Peru, on a desperate hunt for a reliable source for quinin...

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Barbara Bourland, I'll Eat When I'm Dead with Donna Freed GORGEOUS READS on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - September 11, 2017 12:03 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Barbara Bourland's bust out debut novel has been described as The Devil Wears Prada meets American Psycho. If that doesn't nab you, listening to her sparkling, febrile mind at work will. You'll be pleased to know that the sequel is in work as is another novel she's thrilled to talk about. www.b...

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Gemma Levine with Donna Freed, Let's Talk About Lymphoedema

Radio Gorgeous - September 11, 2017 09:33 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Portrait photographer Gemma Levine developed secondary lymphoedema as a result of surviving breast cancer. She soon realised that she wasn't the only one who knew extremely little about this chronic condition. Known for her work with Henry Moore and her portraits of Princess Diana and Baroness T...

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Annie Siddons with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - August 28, 2017 10:36 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Entertainment: Playwright & Performer Annie Siddons: How (Not) to Live in Suburbia with Donna Freed Artist, committed London lover and single mum, Annie Siddons found herself in the midst of very married, very homogeneous suburbia. She also found herself to be profoundly lonely. Lonel...

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Grace Victory, No Filter with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - July 30, 2017 12:54 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Gorgeous Lives: Grace Victory, No Filter Body image campaigner, blogger, youtuber and 'Internet's Big Sister, Grace tells Donna how it was that she came to find her voice and her vocation as a brilliant role model by telling her story with no filter. As she says: Empowered women empower women. ...

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Annemarie Neary, The Orphans with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous - July 24, 2017 10:17 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Author of the Week: Annemarie Neary, The Orphans with Donna Freed Two young children, siblings, abandoned on a beach on Goa; the disappearance blights and drives both their lives but in different directions. She needs to bury the past. He won't let it lie. www.annemarieneary.co.uk @Annemari...

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Karen Dionne, The Marsh King's Daughter with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - July 21, 2017 09:54 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
A notorious child abductor- the Marsh King - escapes maximum security prison and disappears into the marsh. Only his daughter knows the extent of his ability to survive in the wild and she also knows, he is coming for her and her daughters. Lee Child: "I loved this book!" Enough said! #prison #...

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Shari Lapena, A Stranger in the House with Donna Freed

Radio Gorgeous - July 18, 2017 08:55 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
While it was her goal to write a thriller and if it turned into an international bestseller so much the better but now the pressure is on: we want another one. Happily, Shari thrives under pressure and has produced another page turning, twisting thriller that not only leaves you guessing until t...

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Salley Vickers, Cousins with Donna Freed AUTHOR on Gorgeous Reads

Radio Gorgeous - July 12, 2017 14:10 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Cousins Will and Cele are twinned souls whose very closeness estranges them from each other and their family. Three generations tell the story of the cousins and the dangerous effect of secrets that reach through the generations. #family #fiction #cousins

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Books written by Donna Freed

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka, Jason Baker, Donna Freed

224 pages - ★★★★ - 36.7K ratings