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Yann Martel
Booker Prize winning author, Yann Martel, chats to Simon and Matt about his new novel 'Son Of Nobody'.
They talk about The Iliad - one of his inspirations behind the book - as well as how we understand ancient history in 2026, and how we should tell those stories.
The novel explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them and how we live – then, now and always.
Here's a little more info on 'Son Of Nobody'
Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it…
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