Flesh

FleshWinner of the Booker Prize 2025 A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen year old Istvn lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour a married woman close to his mothers age as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine

had gone to the wall

and at what cost

Karl Derfler

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but precious few musicians understood the layer upon layer of complexities and challenges that Monk's music created

mother from Jupiter

to a quilt copied from the altarpiece of Luther's church in Wittenberg

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to Courtney Love's hatred of cheese

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in Hannah’s own life

Deborah Levy confronts the essential questions of modern womanhood with humour