The book for our next book club - on 10th March - is THE SONG OF ACHILLES. Let’s get reading! This episode, Alex has been exploring the purpose of having distance between a character and the audience, as well as the motivation behind unlikeable protagonists. Meanwhile, Rhiannon has been delving into the genius of Ricky Gervais’ acerbic grief in After Life, as well as a modern perspective of body image.

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See below for a full list of what we discuss:

This Way Up, Channel 4

After Life, Netflix

This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes

Graham Norton Show

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

Killing Eve

Mission Impossible

The Bodyguard, BBC1

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10440489/Kim-Kardashians-hourglass-figure-harmful-body-image-study-says.html

The Social Dilemma, Netflix

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller