Late Show Book Club chats with Samantha Harvey, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel, "Orbital," our June book club pick. Find out which book Harvey would take into space with her, the significance of the International Space Station being deorbited in 2030, and her advice for aspiring writers.
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Meanwhile | A Pig Named "Breakfast"
Meanwhile... France is sending a baguette-shaped rocket into space, pornography was accidentally shown on TV screens on a ferry, Stephen looks into the story of a runaway pig, a fat raccoon is taking England by storm, our very own Corey Bernhard learned to play a recently-unearth ... Show More
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Mar 2025
Ep 469: Book Club is for discussing, discovering, and dissenting
Readers, we often receive questions from you about our Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club and what actually goes on in our online reading community, and today's guest is here to help Anne take you behind the scenes! You may already know Ginger Horton, our MMD Book Club Community Manager, ... Show More
1h 8m
Feb 2025
Book Club: Let's Talk About "Orbital," by Samantha Harvey
<p>Samantha Harvey’s novel “Orbital,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/arts/booker-prize-winner-orbital-samantha-harvey.html" target="_blank">which won the Booker Prize</a> last year, has a tight, poetic frame: We follow one day in the lives of six people working on a ... Show More
41m 51s
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Book Club Meets: Soulmates, swiping culture, and difficult decisions, with Holly Gramazio
<p>Would you be a different version of you if you’d surrounded yourself with different people?</p><p> </p><p>This is something the plot of The Husbands, the Happy Place Book Club pick for August, explores. In this chat with Fearne, live at the Happy Place Festival, author Ho ... Show More
39m 1s
Jan 2025
Ep 460: Anne's best books of 2024
We're kicking off 2025 with a special episode: today Anne is joined by her husband Will Bogel to discuss Anne's best books of the past year. Every week here on the show, we take a personal approach to the reading life, really digging into what readers love, what they don't, and w ... Show More
1h 1m
Jan 2025
Book Club: Let’s Talk About Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’
<p>The novel “Our Evenings,” by Alan Hollinghurst, follows a gay English Burmese actor from childhood into old age as he confronts confusing relationships, his emerging sexuality, racism and England’s changing political climate in the late 20th and early 21st century. It’s the st ... Show More
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