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Dec 2021
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Ep 194: The Magician by Colm Tóibín

ANNA BAILLIE-KARAS, ANNIE WATERS AND AMANDA HAYES
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Anna and Annie discuss the winners of the Goldsmiths Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize and the National Book Awards.

Our book of the week is The Magician by multi-award winning author Colm Tóibín. His latest novel, based on the life of Thomas Mann, is a New York Times Notable Book, a Best Book of Fall 2021 (Time) and described as an 'ode to a 20th-century genius' (O Magazine).  We loved it.

Coming up: The Promise by Damon Galgut.

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Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

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