242: Booker Special 2021 Part 1: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgud & Nadifa Mohamed

Published: Oct. 22, 2021, noon

This week we\u2019re taking a look at some of the novels shortlisted for this year\u2019s Booker Prize:\n
\nMaggie Shipstead considers the significant role played by women in the early history of aviation in her barnstorming novel 'Great Circle'.\n
\nDamon Galgut takes a wry look at life, death and the broken promise of post-Apartheid South Africa.\n\xa0
\nNadifa Mohamed transports us back\xa0 to 1950s Cardiff to re-examine a notorious miscarriage of justice.
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\nAnd we return to Maggie Shipstead for the Books of Her Life.