John introduces a rerun of an episode from November 2016, where Costa First Book nominee for My Name Is Leon, Kit de Waal joins John & Andy to discuss So Long, See You Tomorrow, the final novel by author and New Yorker literary editor William Maxwell.
Rough Timings:
11'27 - You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston
17'43 - My Name Is Leon by Kit de Waal
24'47 - So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
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