This month, Dua is joined by one of the most singular voices in American fiction – the acclaimed author Percival Everett whose novel The Trees was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. It’s not an understatement to say that Percival is having a moment – his most recent novel James won the 2024 National Book Award and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize, while American ... Show More
May 5
So Late In The Day: Dua Lipa & Claire Keegan On Everyday Misogyny
For her May Service95 Book Club interview, Dua Lipa is joined by one of Ireland’s most celebrated short story writers, Claire Keegan. Together, they explore Keegan’s powerful read So Late In The Day: a sharp, unsettling portrait of a man whose lack of generosity towards his fianc ... Show More
41m 51s
Apr 28
From The Archives: Tomasz Jedrowski on his queer coming-of-age love story set in communist Poland
From the archives this month, we bring you Dua’s conversation with Polish-German author Tomasz Jedrowski, author of Swimming In The Dark. Set in 1980, it’s a story of first love between Ludwig and Janus, told against the backdrop of communist Poland as the regime starts to crumbl ... Show More
38m 30s
Apr 21
All About ‘Jerusalem’: Jez Butterworth Answers Your Questions
In this episode of the Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa, we’re passing the mic back to you. Dua put your questions to Jez Butterworth about her April Monthly Read, Jerusalem – and here, he answers them. Jez traces the play’s origins back to New Year’s Eve 2000, explains how it c ... Show More
6m 36s
Mar 2025
Douglas Stuart on Shuggie Bain, Storytelling, and the Human Condition (Part Two)
This event is part of Conversations at the Kiln, a new event series at Kiln Theatre programmed by Intelligence Squared. For more events with speakers from the worlds of literature, art, poetry and politics, click here.
Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain ... Show More
33m 8s
Aug 2025
Jason Mott’s new novel ‘People Like Us’ is metafiction that was almost memoir
In 2021, Jason Mott won the National Book Award for Hell of a Book. Now, he’s out with a new novel called People Like Us, in which two Black writers navigate life in the United States in an era of gun violence. Mott says the book is loosely based on himself – and leans into the a ... Show More
9m 26s
Aug 2024
I heard the darkness, Indian Horror Story
Indian Noir One-Shots are standalone Indian horror stories featuring supernatural terror, eerie encounters, paranormal mysteries, dark fiction, and unsettling twists. Each one-shot delivers a complete nightmare in a single episode for listeners who enjoy immersive horror storytel ... Show More
8m 49s
Sep 2024
Red Star, Indian Horror Story
Indian Noir One-Shots are standalone Indian horror stories featuring supernatural terror, eerie encounters, paranormal mysteries, dark fiction, and unsettling twists. Each one-shot delivers a complete nightmare in a single episode for listeners who enjoy immersive horror storytel ... Show More
8m 40s
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
47m 52s
Sep 2025
Ian McEwan on Speculative Fiction, Lost Poems and What We Can Know
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His novels include Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach, and he is the recipient of many awards including the Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and t ... Show More
42 m
Jul 2025
The ritual circle, Indian Horror Story
Indian Noir One-Shots are standalone Indian horror stories featuring supernatural terror, eerie encounters, paranormal mysteries, dark fiction, and unsettling twists. Each one-shot delivers a complete nightmare in a single episode for listeners who enjoy immersive horror storytel ... Show More
7m 18s
Sep 2025
The Factory, Indian Horror Story
Indian Noir One-Shots are standalone Indian horror stories featuring supernatural terror, eerie encounters, paranormal mysteries, dark fiction, and unsettling twists. Each one-shot delivers a complete nightmare in a single episode for listeners who enjoy immersive horror storytel ... Show More
5m 58s