Mike Kroeger and Professor Anthony Kessel

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Lively conversation around three book choices. Presenter Harriett Gilbert talks to two guests about books they love. This week Mike Kroeger bassist and founder member of Canadian band Nickelback guests with YA author, Professor Anthony Kessel, Deputy Medical Director of NHS England. Anthony Kessel's choice is THE SAFEKEEP by Yael van der Wouden set in The Netherlands in the 1960s. Mike Kroeger chooses THE COMFORT CRISIS by American journalist Michael Easter, who argues that, in the Western world, our bodies and minds are suffering because life is too physically comfortable. Harriett's pick is BLACK WATER by Joyce Carol Oates a retelling of the Chappaquiddick incident, in which a young woman in a car driven by a famous US Senator drowns, when he careers off the road and abandons her trapped inside. Producer for BBC Audio Bristol Maggie Ayre Follow us on Instagram @agoodreadbbc