The Booking Club Podcast
1) Vulture: a novel, with Phoebe Greenwood
Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East, Vulture is a fast-paced, brilliant satire of the war news industry and its moral blind spots.An ambitious young journalist, Sara is sent to...Show More
2) Fiction First: The Booking Club LIVE
On Wednesday 16 July this year, The Booking Club in collaboration with Conduit Books launched Fiction First, an event dedicated to the experience and status of the modern novel and novelist.At 21Soho,...Show More
3) The Fathers: a novel, with John Niven
In a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth – no, sixth? – child into the world. Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a s...Show More
4) A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere, with James Bloodworth
An astonishing undercover investigation into the paranoid and misogynistic subcultures of the manosphere, by the Orwell Prize-longlisted author of Hired James Bloodworth.Rarely has there seemed a...Show More
5) The Boys: a novel, with Leo Robson
London, 2012. Johnny Voghel is stuck. He has a dead-end job at a small university and a wilting relationship and is grieving the death of his parents. When his half-brother Lawrence returns to the old...Show More
6) What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Reinventing Your Life, with Henry Oliver
Our society tells us over and over that if we're going to achieve anything, we'd better do it while we're young. We fixate on stories of prodigies; we put our children in piano lessons or language cla...Show More
7) Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs, with Miranda Sawyer
When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Noel Gallagher in 1995, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news. This fascinating pop history, exploring the mid-90s moment when British m...Show More
8) Life, Death and Boxing, with Donald McRae
Donald McRae has been immersed in boxing for fifty years. He has followed fighters around the world and won multiple awards for his writing. But, in recent years, McRae’s love has waned, as criminalit...Show More
9) How the British Empire Has Shaped the Globe, with Sathnam Sanghera
The British empire was built on slavery, but it also pioneered abolition. It spread democracy, but it also seeded geopolitical instability. It devastated nature but it also gave birth to modern notion...Show More
10) Why We Need a Global Food Philosophy, with Julian Baggini
How we live is shaped by how we eat.You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such as the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose sust...Show More