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International Booker Prize 2025 | Winner Reaction · Bookies' Favourite

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  Hi, we're back time to dust off those dust off those bookshelves
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  book his favorite are. Back yes and I have my
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  microphone again, so apologies for my mic quality in the
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  previous couple of. Potato.
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  I'm always a potato. Apologies for not returning.
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  When we said that we would return in our previous episodes,
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  we did mention that we would be reacting to the winner of the
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  International Booker Prize 2025. We lied and.
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  We lied, we lied. We were all travelling, we were
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  all in different parts of the world and scheduling issues and
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  tech issues. Now that we're big, big in the
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  in the book, you know the book space, like where?
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  I mean, guys, we hit 1K listener.
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  So we're we're big now. Sorry Hannah, we we don't have
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  1K of the snooze, we have 1K listens.
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  So. Yeah, this is my mum.
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  Just. Three people, thank you for your
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  service. We wanted to say congratulations
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  to Banu for winning with Heart Lamp.
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  None of us. It was not our fave, but go
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  Banu, yeah. None of us had predicted it,
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  none of us had enjoyed it the most out of all six books, but a
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  well deserved win and we do all agree, I think, that it was very
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  successful in in what it was trying to do in terms of sharing
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  the stories of women in that part of the world and that
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  culture. You know, one of my favorite
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  things was in her speech, I'm talking about how no story is
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  like too small to tell or something like that.
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  But I just, I know it's really heartfelt.
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  It really got me in the fields and it just made me kind of
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  appreciate her work. I mean, not that it was one of
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  my favorite ones, but I just made me have a better
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  appreciation. And also I didn't realize that
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  the translators and the authors shared the prize, so that was
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  amazing as well. So they both get, is it 50,000
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  lbs. So. 25,000 each.
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  Oh, I thought was 50. Never mind. 50 all together
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  that's the same. I think that's the same for the
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  normal Booker, it's like 50 but because it doesn't it you can't
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  split it with the English language ones that haven't been.
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  Just get it all. I'm pretty sure that's true.
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  But yeah, it's a it's a split. But I think that the work that
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  Deepa Bashdi, because the work that she did was incredible and
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  the speeches that they both made, it really hit home the
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  importance of like languages that we don't usually hear in
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  translation, especially in the English speaking world.
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  It's like we get, you know, European translations and we get
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  a lot of different ones. There's so many different
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  languages, especially within India, you know, there's so many
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  languages. And I think it was like 2 years
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  ago there was a Tamil long listed book and that was the
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  first time that had that had been nominated for the
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  international. And I really hope that this
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  means that we'll get more like language.
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  I mean, I say small languages, it's like millions of people
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  speak these languages, but it's like it's so interesting to have
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  these things are kind of kept from us before.
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  And it's like with translations and people like Banu and Deepa
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  winning these prizes, it's like we're going to see more of that.
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  And I think that's only ever going to be a positive thing.
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  Yeah, very exciting. We have decided that we're not
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  going to jump into another shortlist just quite yet.
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  We will be jumping. Spice things up.
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  Spicy. We will be jumping into another
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  shortlist in the future, but for the time being, for the in
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  between, we're going to switch it up and instead of reading a
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  book week to week, we're going to do every other week.
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  So every two weeks we will have a new episode with a new book.
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  We are going to involve you, the listener, as part.
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  Of the listener. The single listener.
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  Yeah. Lucy's mother.
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  Lucy, at least your mother listens.
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  Yeah, true. What not She's not up to date.
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  I think when they got a bit longer, she was kind of like
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  perfection was OK for her because it's 20 minutes and I
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  think when they got like. Maybe she can listen in 20
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  minute increments. Yes, yeah, I I think she's doing
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  that. I think it's just over, over the
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  weeks she's like just slowly but surely she'll, she'll be up to
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  date. Yeah, in like 4 weeks she'll
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  phone me and be like, why did you slag me off on your most
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  recent podcast? Mum?
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  We're way ahead here. So we we are going to involve
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  you as the listener in the book club.
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  You are going to help us decide what books we will be reading.
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  A little more on that later, but next week we will be coming to
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  you with a new book review, a new discussion.
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  We have picked it ourselves. You have one week to read it.
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  That book is going to be. Aiden Shore by Oshing Fagan.
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  It was so anti climactic. I just, I'm not very.
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  I also thought that you were like, you've got to read it
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  within a week or else like you're gonna get shot or
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  something. No, no, I just want to let
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  people wait. And if don't read this book
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  within the week, Aaron is personally going to come to your
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  house and shoot you. Yes, this this book is a new
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  Wish release. It was at least published in
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  2025. It's I think it's April 2025 S.
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  Very recent. Very recent and may I say it has
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  an incredible cover. I was in Galway and I was in
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  this bookshop and I saw the cover, didn't read anything
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  about it and I just bought it on a whim because of the cover.
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  And I mean, the blurb's fine. Sounds sounds like it'll be
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  good. I haven't read it yet, but and
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  Colin did the exact same thing, which is why we're choosing it.
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  Well, I don't know if he he probably read the blurb.
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  He strikes me as a blurb reading guy.
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  I wasn't quite as learning like a magpie as Lucy was.
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  I I saw it. I saw it in a few lists, like
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  online people were talking about, like it was getting some
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  buzz and also the cover. And so when I saw it, I grabbed
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  it as soon as I could. Basically it's about an Irish
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  man in the 18th century who boards a ship from Liverpool and
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  he's planning to go start a utopia in Latin America.
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  A bunch of shenanigans happens on the ship and he ends up in a
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  Spanish colonized part of Latin America and he gets involved in
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  drama. So it sounds good to me, and I
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  think that we are probably all in agreement that we all have a
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  crush on Arsheen Fagan based off his author's picture at the back
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  of the book. So do.
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  Not drag me into this. Well, we can all appreciate his
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  looks in the picture. If you want to have have a look
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  and see what Arsheen looks like, then buy the book.
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  And since you've bought the book to look at him, you might as
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  well read along with. Us, we're just objectifying this
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  per man. I know I'm.
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  Sure, I'm sure his book is great too.
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  Well, to be determined. And no, I just think it's funny
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  that like, I only bought it because I thought the cover was
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  great and I feel like you guys only are interested because the
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  author's good looking. It's like, are we just so looks
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  obsessed? No, well, you don't.
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  Even. Need to read it.
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  Don't judge the book by its cover.
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  Judge the author. No.
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  Judge the book by its author. Would if the authors handsome
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  get the book, but I I disagree with that.
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  Now to announce our next how how we're going to do things from
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  this point forward for at least a few weeks.
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  As we said, it's going to be involving the listener.
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  It's going to be involving you. We want to hear what you think.
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  We are going to post a poll on all of our social media starting
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  from this episode and each episode going forward, all four
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  of us are going to pitch a book based on four different
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  categories. You vote and pick which book you
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  want us to read next. And you better pick mine, guys.
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  So in our in our episode next week in our review of Eden
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  Shore, we will be announcing what book we will be reading
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  from for the following episode for the the following two weeks.
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  Based off your votes, you have until midnight on Friday before
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  each episode is released. 2 votes.
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  You can vote in several places including Instagram, Twitter,
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  Facebook and Spotify. There might be others added such
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  as Goodreads. We will see what what happens.
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  We'll see where people vote, but just check our description for
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  this episode. We will have all the links there
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  to where you can vote. The more that you vote, the more
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  say you have. So go to all of our social
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  medias and vote each time. Hannah to win.
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  I'm still going to lose now that I've said this like 5,000,000
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  times. Does somebody want to explain
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  the categories that we're going with?
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  So our first category is just been crowned, which means it's
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  won an award very recently, or second category Freshly Bind
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  published within the last month or third category now renowned
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  currently on a shortlist or a long list.
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  And our 4th category is Been Around which is a personal
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  choice of a book we'd like to read.
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  Now I am blaming Aaron for the names of these categories and
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  how it's like asking someone from Belfast to say how now
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  Brian Coy like 7 times. I have a personal grudge against
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  you for that Aaron. But those are our 4 categories
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  and I think Aaron should probably also include them
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  subtitled correctly somewhere, because I can imagine that the
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  subtitling on Spotify is going to absolutely mess up whatever
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  I've tried to say there. Who wants to do theirs first?
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  Let's go in order. Let's go with has been crowned.
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  Yeah. So that's me with that one.
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  All right. OK.
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  Now I need a bit of prep, guys. I need everyone's mics off for
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  this for my chosen book. I'm going to take you back to
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  Syracuse 412 BC. The Athenians have just suffered
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  A shocking naval defeat off the coast of Sicily and thousands
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  have been taken prisoner on the island.
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  We are in the midst of the Peloponnesian Wars.
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  Tensions are high. 2 aimless Syracusan Potters happen upon
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  some starving Athenian prisoners of war.
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  In exchange for much needed food from the 2 Potters, the
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  Athenians agreed to put on a performance of Euripides Medea.
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  So I can hear the naysayers ask me why I'm choosing a dry piece
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  of historical fiction. It's all been done before.
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  But this is no ordinary book about ancient history.
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  The author has bravely gone in a radical new direction and asked
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  the question on everyone's mind. Why shouldn't ancient Sicilians
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  have Dublin accents? This book has prizes coming out
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  of its ears. It's been shortlisted for pretty
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  much everything. It's won the Authors Club Debut
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  Fiction Prize, the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, the
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  Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Prize.
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  And it's they're practically inventing prizes now just to
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  give this book. And this book, of course, is
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  Glorious Exploits by Ferdia. Lennon is pretty much never had
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  a bad review or one that I've seen, and I think everyone
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  universally has loved it. So I think it would be a
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  fantastic choice for our next book club read.
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  Oh, that's quite interesting. I mean, at the start I was
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  thinking, I don't know, but I mean, you kind of caught me
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  there. Yeah, I like your dramatic, your
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  dramatic backing track, Lucy. It really has solidified the
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  theme. You know, I felt like we were
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  in, in Sicily. So that is our just been crowned
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  has been crowned category. What is What's next in our
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  categories? It's Hannah with Freshly Bound.
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  Well everyone, do you love Ireland and in particular do you
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  love all things Belfast? Well I got the book for you.
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  So this is Thirst Trap by Grenya O'Hara.
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  So it's a perfect blend of humour and heartache.
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  Think Sally Rooney meets girls with a distinctly Belfast twist.
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  I mean, who does not want that? So we follow.
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  It's a shared house that's crumbling apart in South
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  Belfast. Anyone who's been to Queens or
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  Ulster, you know what it's been like living in the Holy Lands
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  area. So it follows 3 friends, Maggie,
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  Harley and Rosha, navigating life after the sudden death of
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  their housemate Lydia. With their house falling apart
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  and their friendship on the rocks, they're forced to
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  confront their grief when their past and the messy reality of
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  growing up all hits. It's said to be a sharp, witty
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  narrative that captures the complexities of friendship and
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  loss. Uh, the characters are flawed,
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  funny, and utterly relatable, and it's been called a must read
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  for fans of contemporary fiction, but with a touch of
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  dark humor. Well, guys, it gets even better
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  because not only has Days and The Irish Times called it the
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  most anticipated novel of 2025, but the lovely RTE has also
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  called it the most anticipated novel of 2025.
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  And if I haven't sold it to you already, just look up the cover
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  and I think that'll sell it even more to you.
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  So guys, choose me, Hannah, for your pick for the book, there's
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  Traffic Chrono. That book sounds very relatable.
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  I think all of us can relate. Sorry.
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  Well, why can't you relate to Syracuse?
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  412 BC. Because I don't have a Dublin
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  accent, Lucy. That's a.
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  Unrelatable part of it. Someone living in Dublin.
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  Madness. For someone that is grown up
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  here, I do not love reading books about here, but this is
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  the first book that's caught my eyebrow.
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  I'm like, you know what? I feel I could, like, laugh
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  about it because there's so much relatability to it.
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  I do have to agree with you, I am not a fan of books based
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  here. I'm not.
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  This is rage. Oh, sorry.
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  I thought you were gonna slag my book off there.
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  I was like. She was she was getting ready to
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  launch an attack counter offensive.
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  She's like pipeline, pipeline. Yeah, they're attacking me.
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  Defend. Defend.
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  Just on constant defense mode here, ready to kill.
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  On to the the next category, which is now renowned and that
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  is me. I am my my choice for for this
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  week. So now renowned is our category
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  four books that are on a shortlist, on a long list.
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  I think we can also say have previously been on a shortlist
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  or a long list. They don't have to be existing
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  on a shortlist or a long list right now.
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  Just so it happens that my book this week is currently on a
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  shortlist. The book I have chosen is The
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  Tusks of Extinction by Ray Naylor.
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  So this book is currently on 2 short lists that I have found.
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  One is the Hugo Awards and the other is the Nebula Awards.
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  So both of them lean into sci-fi and fantasy books and novels.
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  The Nebula Awards is more of the actual writing industry and they
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  are the the voters in that, while the Hugo Awards are just
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  fans basically and is chosen by fans.
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  So obviously this book is particularly successful if it is
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  on 2 existing shortlists. This falls under the novella
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  category for both and I think it seems like the most interesting
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  of all the novellas on both shortlists, so we will see if
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  it's it's going to win. This book is basically about the
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  sci-fi based on the future. Moscow has brought the woolly
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  mammoth back to life and in hopes that they don't go extinct
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  again, they add the digitized memories and consciousness of a
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  woman that fought for the survival of elephants against
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  poachers and she she's been murdered.
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  So they they add her consciousness into one of the
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  mammoths to teach them how to survive against poachers.
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  She has her memories. She remembers being murdered and
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  there's maybe a bit of a darker reason as to why these elephants
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  have been part of these mammoths have been brought back from the
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  dead. So it sounds very interesting to
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  me. It sounds like something that is
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  very topical. And now that direwolves have
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  been supposedly brought back from extinction and the woolly
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  mammoth is on the horizon. And please vote for me.
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  I will give you ice cream at lunch.
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  What? You can't.
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  Bride Yeah, that's cheating. That's absolutely cheating.
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  Rigged. Rigged.
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  I think I can speak for all of us when we all were slightly
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  terrified as to what Aaron was going to suggest.
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  Yeah, Colin said on multiple occasions.
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  Please read the page count. Before anything.
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  It would be very arrond to get to suggest a 700 page book not
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  having looked at at the page count of this thing and
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  expecting all of us to read it. So I, I just, I just want to
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  make it clear, you know, that that's the reason.
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  It's a novella, let me tell you. Let me tell you the page count
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  192. That's that's very respectable
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  breezy and also I think it sounds really interesting as
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  well. Glad that I've got your vote.
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  Well, she didn't say that. She didn't say that.
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  I haven't heard Colin. Yeah, exactly because I'm
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  bringing up with I'm finishing with maybe perhaps the best book
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  on this on this like little list.
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  So for my pick, I'm in the been around category and I have an
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  incredible novel to pitch to everyone.
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  So I've read this book. It was my top book, uh, of 2024
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  that I'd read, Uh, and it also recently was in the Republic of
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  Consciousness, uh, shortlist. So it's also getting a little
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  bit of acclaim. Uh, it's called Mother naked by
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  Glenn James Braun. Uh, very, very intriguing book,
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  uh, a little bit of, uh, history here.
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  So it's set in the city of Durham in 1434.
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  So it's some historical fiction, but it's based on a real, real
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  sort of historical tidbit in that in the records, uh, of the
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  Durham cathedrals like, uh, payment system or payment
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  records, uh, mother naked, uh, was the lowest paid performer in
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  over 200 years, receiving only four pence.
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  Uh, there is this very strange, this is a very, very real thing
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  where this, this person performed this court and they
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  were paid very, very small amount.
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  Anyway, this is Glen James Brown is trying is writing this book
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  from the point of view of Mother Naked this person to explain.
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  Pretty much why they were so, so lowly paid.
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  The book is a is a monologue which I know everyone's probably
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  like. No, but it's so expertly
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  written. It is follows the the character
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  Mother Naked who is a Glee man or a Bard who travels around and
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  tells these different stories between these different towns
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  and villages. He has arrived in Durham and he
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  is talking to the different nobility in Durham.
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  Uh, however, he tells the story of the fell race, the legend of
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  the fell race, a gruesome walking ghost that slaughtered
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  an entire village, uh, 40 years earlier.
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  Uh, and he retells the story and throughout it, uh, you get, uh,
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  a really good sense of like this time period.
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  Umm, but also is the ghost real or was the ghost like, umm, a
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  story and, and a myth itself? Uh, it's quite interesting.
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  It talks about class, talks about religion, uh, about, uh,
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  working people and, and the kind of toils that they have to go
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  through. But the most interesting thing
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  is this book. So when I, I went to a, a talk
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  at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, umm, with Liam
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  James Brown and he, uh, went into TA the, the subject matter
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  was pretty much talking about soothsayers and how, uh,
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  historical fiction can tell the future or how history can tell
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  the future. He basically a lot of the
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  things, the themes and and topics that come up in this book
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  are very, very relatable to, uh, how, how our system of
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  economics, our system of politics works right now.
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  And I think it really, uh, transcends that historical
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  category and feels like a very, very MO modern book.
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  Highly recommend, even if it doesn't get onto our list.
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  I recommend everyone to read this.
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  It is incredible book. I like all your talk about like
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  historical fiction and all that, but is your book in a Dublin
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  accent? Is it in Dublin?
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  It's not. But it is.
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  But it is in the only English. I don't care.
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  I want, I want modern Dublin. So we have a book.
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  My book's based in in futuristic Moscow.
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  Hannah's book is based in modern day of Belfast.
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  Lucy's book is based in 400. BC, Syracuse.
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  But with the modern. Dublin Twist.
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  And Collin's book is based in 1400s Durham, England.
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  OK. What a classic.
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  What a classic. So we're all going to vote for
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  each other's. We're not allowed to vote for
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  for our own choice. So let's let's see which book is
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  already in the lead. This is just for fun.
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  This isn't going to influence the votes so well.
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  Not anything. We should do in alphabetical
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  order so I can go last. No.
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  Well, does anyone want to place their vote first?
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  Sure, if it's not. If you're not voting for mine,
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  I'm not your friend anymore. Well, I'm going to break some
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  hearts here. I'm I'm going to vote for
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  glorious, glorious exploits. You're correct with your vote.
• 23:20
  Well done. I I just like the the little
• 23:22
  twist going on there. OK, so so you're going to go
• 23:26
  with Lucy's Just been crowned category.
• 23:30
  Yep. OK.
• 23:31
  So you want to keep it an award-winning streak with this
• 23:35
  podcast, OK. No, no, but OK.
• 23:40
  Well, I do have to say that my vote is also going to to be
• 23:44
  Lucy's choice. What's it called?
• 23:45
  Glorious exploits What? And it just.
• 23:50
  The Mozart sold it. The Mozart did very convincing.
• 23:55
  With how many awards it's won and how how many shortlists it's
• 23:58
  appeared on and still continues to appear on, can it really be
• 24:03
  that bad of a book? I think it's worth giving it a
• 24:06
  read. Also, can I just say before you
• 24:08
  cast your vote, Hannah, my mum bought me this book, OK.
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  And she never steers me wrong. She no, she always buys me like
• 24:16
  random books and I'm always like, are you serious with them?
• 24:20
  And they're always because like the person in Waterstones has
• 24:22
  been like, this is a good book and mum's gone.
• 24:25
  Yes, I'll buy my daughter that. And she's never got me lower
• 24:29
  than a four-star. Wow.
• 24:31
  Like well. I think you hand out too many
• 24:34
  four stars. I think you're a bit, you're a
• 24:35
  bit loose and fast with that Lucy.
• 24:37
  It's in the name. It's in the name.
• 24:39
  I'm going to be a bit different and go with Aaron's pick.
• 24:44
  I was like quite intrigued by it and the pitch got me.
• 24:48
  So sorry Lucy's mom. I'm knuckling with your pick.
• 24:51
  But but maybe Lucy's mom will enjoy listening or reading a
• 24:56
  book. I don't know if she reads along
• 24:58
  with us or if she just listens. She absolutely hates sci-fi, can
• 25:01
  I just say. Oh well, maybe she'll be
• 25:03
  convinced when she's reading a book about Toll from the POV of.
• 25:08
  Mammoth. So I'm actually deeply torn so,
• 25:13
  and I'm going to make a bit of a confession.
• 25:16
  I'm going to confess that there was one in my head before we
• 25:19
  started that I knew that Colin was going to pick mother naked
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  and I was like, I really, really, really want to read
• 25:24
  that. And I do really, really want to
• 25:26
  read it. Aaron really is I am going to go
• 25:34
  with mother naked but I. Do you all?
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  I do think I like, I would be, I'd be very happy to, to read
• 25:46
  this mammoth book because I'm like, that's so bizarre.
• 25:51
  I think it could be good, the Belfast one.
• 25:55
  I'm just like Belfast today. Shut up, Lucy.
• 25:58
  Really. Do I have to relive my student
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  day Is mine? I'm like, yes, I'm just telling.
• 26:03
  People, they're in their 20s. You know how I feel about things
• 26:06
  like that. People are in their 30s.
• 26:08
  They're in their 30s, reliving their memories of being
• 26:10
  students. It's extremely maybe too
• 26:13
  relatable for. Us.
• 26:13
  Yeah, it would hurt. I think it's going to hurt.
• 26:16
  Yeah, they're like long socks was once in and nice short socks
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  and nice back to medium socks. None of you picked my book,
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  Listeners attack. I am going to put my vote for
• 26:29
  Mother naked. Well, there you have it.
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• 26:36
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• 27:22
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• 27:25
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• 27:28
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• 27:33
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• 27:36
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• 27:39
  see what I bought there. Well, I can tell Hannah that you
• 27:41
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  Oh God. No.
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• 27:53
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• 28:02
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• 28:04
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