Welcome to the Service95 Book Club with Dua Lipa, a podcast dedicated to the books that stay with us – and the brilliant minds behind them.
As well as bringing you a brand-new episode every month, we’ll also be dipping into the archive of fascinating conversations Dua has had with authors over the past two years.
This time from the archive, Dua sits down w ... Show More
Oct 6
Klara And The Sun: Dua Lipa & Kazuo Ishiguro On Technology & Human Loneliness
For the Service95 Book Club this month, Dua is joined by Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro to discuss Klara And The Sun, her October Monthly Read. As Taika Waititi’s film adaptation arrives in cinemas this month, they explore Ishiguro’s speculative novel and its questions ... Show More
57m 48s
Sep 16
From The Archives: Dua Lipa & Guadalupe Nettel on the transcendent power of care in all its forms in Still Born
From the Service95 Book Club archive this month, we’re bringing you Dua’s May 2025 interview with Mexican author Guadalupe Nettel, on her novel Still Born. Set in Mexico City, friends Alina and Laura are united in their decision to be childfree, refusing to fall into a trap of th ... Show More
33m 25s
Sep 1
Martyr!: Dua & Kaveh Akbar On Addiction, Art & Exile
For the Service95 Book Club this month, Dua is joined by award-winning poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar to discuss his debut novel – and Dua’s Monthly Read for September – Martyr!, a poignant and generous exploration of addiction, identity, art and exile. At the heart of the novel i ... Show More
1h 2m
Oct 2021
170: Ruth Ozeki (THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS) & Walter Benjamin's "UNPACKING MY LIBRARY"
<p>Ruth Ozeki steps on into the Damn Library Hyperverse to shine. We talk about her latest opus, <em>The Book of Form and Emptiness</em>, and how books are magical, and accessing her teenage self, and an unexpected turn of narrative luck with snowglobes, along with many other thi ... Show More
1h 8m
Jun 2023
Book Club Bonus Episode: Dua Lipa and Douglas Stuart, live at Hay Festival
At Hay-on-Wye's annual Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, one of the world’s most prestigious literary events, Dua sat down with 'Shuggie Bain' author Douglas Stuart for a fascinating discussion and podcast taping in front of a live audience about Service95 Book Club’s first book ... Show More
38m 58s
Feb 2021
Coming Soon: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Welcome to Audiobook Club -the monthly event and podcast where we celebrate and discuss Black, Asian, Queer and female narratives in literature. Every month we meet with other Audiobookworms to discuss an Audiobook recommended by you.For our next episode, we’re joined by 12 audio ... Show More
1m 54s
Jul 2021
The Penguin Podcast's Best of the Booker Prize
<p>To celebrate this year’s upcoming Booker Prize nominations, we've delved back into the archives and cherry-picked highlights from eight very special interviews. Hear about the inspirations, frustrations, and secrets behind the winners of the most prestigious prize in literatur ... Show More
30 m
Mar 2023
Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity
Margaret Atwood, famed author, poet and “dystopia prophet,” joins Offline to talk about fighting tyranny and finding hope. Much like her latest book, Old Babes in the Wood, Atwood’s conversation with Jon sandwiches her thoughts and fears on the present between poignant chapters o ... Show More
45m 43s