The Booker Prize Podcast

Summer Special: The Booker Prizes Does Love Island

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The sun is shining, the sea is glistening and we're heading off to Booker Island – our very own version of Love Island. This week we're pairing up fictional characters from novels in the Booker archive, so tune in to find out who's coupled up, who's getting mugged off and who's getting dumped in our quest to find the ultimate literary romantic couple.


Books discussed in this episode:

  1. Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
  2. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
  3. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
  4. Atonement by Ian McEwan
  5. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
  6. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
  7. Us by David Nicholls
  8. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
  9. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
  10. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  11. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  12. Any Human Heart by William Boyd
  13. G by John Berger
  14. Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn
  15. Normal People by Sally Rooney


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