10 Essential Reads Spanning Continents and Cultures

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COMO Book Club: 10 essential reads that span the continents and cultures, with broadcaster and editor Georgina Godwin, and acclaimed author and foreign correspondent Peter Godwin.

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• Broadcaster and editor Georgina Godwin joins forces with her brother, acclaimed author and foreign correspondent Peter Godwin, to share 10 essential reads that span continents and cultures.
• Zimbabwe-born Georgina is the Book Editor at Monocle Radio, where she hosts Meet the Writers and The Globalist.
• She's a veteran broadcaster and literary interviewer, and was a founder member of Zimbabwe's first independent radio station, as well as of the Harare International Festival of the Arts.
• Peter is an award-winning author and journalist, writing for The Sunday Times, National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, and others.
• He grew up in Zimbabwe, and now lives in New York.
• His most recent book, Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars published in 2024 by Canongate Books, is a memoir about family, identity, and finding your way home.
• The Last Resort, by Marissa Stapley, is set in the luxurious Harmony Resort, where celebrity therapists promise hope for struggling marriages.
• The story follows two couples as they navigate their troubled relationships against the stunning backdrop of the Turks and Caicos islands.
• The resort becomes a place of secrets and revelations as a deadly tropical storm traps everyone on the island, with only their fractious spouses for company.
• I once accompanied a British mountaineering expedition in a futile attempt to be the first to climb the peak, Gangkhar Puensum, in the diminutive kingdom of Bhutan, the real Shangri La.

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