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Gavin Young talks to Sue Bardbury
Fiction and Far Away Places
Hay Festival 1996,
"Glamour and the sea! Tell me - wasn't that the best time, that time when we were young and at sea? - Lord Jim: Joseph Conrad. Travel writer Gavin Young, whose Slow Boats to China has been described as a "genuine adventure story", discusses the romance of far away places in fiction with Sue Bradbury, Director of the Folio Society whose novel Midnight Madonna is set in the Spanish Civil War