Anna and Geoff discuss their reaction to the 2025 Booker Prize winner, FLESH by David Szalay, and the winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction, Australian author Helen Garner for her collection of diaries HOW TO END A STORY.

 

Our book of the week is CREATION LAKE by Rachel Kushner. Her follow-up novel after the Booker-shortlisted Mars Room, this centres on Sadie Smith, an undercover agent who infiltrates a commune in rural France. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. 

 

This raised questions we weren't expecting from a literary novel, such as:

Is it a spy thriller?

Is Sadie enough of a slob to be compared with Jackson Lamb?

Which Sesame Street character does Bruno remind us of?

 

Coming up:

NESTING by Roisin O'Donnell

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