Books On The Go

Anna and Geoff discuss the 2026 International Booker Prize longlist. We’re intrigued by  Women Without Men: A novel of Modern Iran by  Shahrnush Parsipur translated by Faridoun Farrokh and The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar translated by Ruth Martin.

 

Our book of the week is SEASCRAPER by Benjamin Wood....

Anna and Geoff discuss the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist, including Flashlight, The Correspondent and Audition.  Some of the other long-listed books feature writers as characters, which gets us talking about turn-offs in novels.

 

Our book of the week is DEPARTURE(S) by Julian Barnes. This is the final book...