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Jack Aldane hosts The Booking Club, a news show with 93 episodes published.
Books are dying. Across the world the number of people reading is in free fall. Literacy is declining or stagnating in most developed countries. At universities, students are unable to read the books assigned to them by
In Do Not Go Gentle, acclaimed writer and philosopher Kathleen Stock tackles one of the great debates of our time: should we set up a system of assisted death? With her trademark sharp thinking and dry wit, the bestselli
This episode was the novelist and essayist Will Self’s first live interview celebrating the publication of his new novel, The Quantity Theory of Morality. We hosted Will alongside our events collaborators for the evening
Megan Nolan is an Irish author and journalist. She gained critical prominence after releasing her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, which received a Betty Trask Award in 2022. Her second novel, Ordinary Human Failings, w
Ross Barkan is a born and raised New Yorker, journalist and author of four novels. He is the co-founder of The Metropolitan Review, New York's youngest books and culture magazine. His latest work of fiction, Colossus, is
The eagerly anticipated final volume of Jay McInerney's stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting fictional tetralogy: Brightness Falls, The Good Life, Bright Precious Days, and now See You on the Other Side It's
To command narrative is to control a sometimes frightening power. What is it that turbocharges some tales, and how is it possible to harness that potency? John Yorke’s groundbreaking bestseller, Into the Woods, revolutio
Joel Foster is a hapless twenty-something. His girlfriend, Beth Lewis, would likely have been a hapless twenty-something, too, had she not been obliterated by a very large cement truck. Some time after Beth’s tragic deat
Who Will Remain by Kasim Ali is a powerful new novel following a young man as he weighs up the life of safety that his parents want for him and another path on the streets outside his door, from the acclaimed author of G
This episode is lifted from a live recording that took place at The Battle of Ideas Festival 2025 in Westminster on Saturday 18th October. Jack draws together a panel of three speakers carefully selected to provide a mod
A riveting tale of risk and obsession set in the alluring world of Macau’s casinos, by the author of the critically acclaimed The Forgiven. As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come
Adapted from the major television series created by Mark Gatiss – out now! London, 1946. Gabriel Book is an erudite and unconventional London bookseller married to Trottie, the owner of the wallpaper shop next door. He i
Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East, Vulture is a fast-paced, brilliant satire of the war news industry and its moral blind spots. An ambitious young journalist, Sara is sent to cover a war from the Beach Hotel
On Wednesday 16 July this year, The Booking Club in collaboration with Conduit Books launched Fiction First, an event dedicated to the experience and status of the modern novel and novelist. At 21Soho, we heard from a pa
In a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth – no, sixth? – child into the world. Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer
An astonishing undercover investigation into the paranoid and misogynistic subcultures of the manosphere, by the Orwell Prize-longlisted author of Hired James Bloodworth. Rarely has there seemed a more confusing time to
An astonishing undercover investigation into the paranoid and misogynistic subcultures of the manosphere, by the Orwell Prize-longlisted author of Hired James Bloodworth. Rarely has there seemed a more confusing time to
London, 2012. Johnny Voghel is stuck. He has a dead-end job at a small university and a wilting relationship and is grieving the death of his parents. When his half-brother Lawrence returns to the old family home from Ch
London, 2012. Johnny Voghel is stuck. He has a dead-end job at a small university and a wilting relationship and is grieving the death of his parents. When his half-brother Lawrence returns to the old family home from Ch
Our society tells us over and over that if we're going to achieve anything, we'd better do it while we're young. We fixate on stories of prodigies; we put our children in piano lessons or language classes as toddlers, ho
Kathleen Stock
author of Do Not Go Gentle · The Lesbian Project
1 appearance on this show
Will Self
Workforce Strategy and Analytics Leader · Mercer
1 appearance on this show
Megan Nolan
mind-body expert, yoga instructor, creator of the Power Pause Method
1 appearance on this show
Ross Barkan
novelist
1 appearance on this show
Nick Wallis
journalist and author
1 appearance on this show
John Niven
1 appearance on this show
Henry Oliver
The Common Reader
2 appearances on this show
Damon Albarn
1 appearance on this show
Noel Gallagher
musician · Oasis
2 appearances on this show
Sathnam Sanghera
journalist, memoirist and novelist
2 appearances on this show
Julian Baggini
2 appearances on this show
Jonathan Coe
2 appearances on this show
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