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The Book Show

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Ian McEwan

Percival Everett

Shortlisted Booker author Percival Everett kicks off our Booker Prize coverage with a discussion of The Trees and former Booker winner Ian McEwan reveals that his latest novel, Lessons, is his most personal work and certainly his longest.  Also, Jay Carmichael explains how he went beyond the archive for his second novel, Marlo, on gay relationships in 1950s Australia.

Booker magic with Ian McEwan, Percival Everett and Jay Carmichael

Pirooz Jafari

Pirooz Jafari has written an interwoven saga spanning Australia, Iran and Sweden in ‘Forty Nights’. It explores love, loss, migration and dispossession across centuries.Jay Carmichael details the journey of a young homosexual man as he comes to terms with his identity and relationships. Set in the 1950’s, the novella, ‘Marlo’, details some of the impositions and assumptions of a society that hadn’t yet addressed gender diversity.

Pirooz Jafari and Jay Carmichael