The Booker-winner and the Beatle

Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 12:01 a.m.

This week, the TLS's fiction editor Toby Lichtig speaks to 2021\u2019s Booker Prize-winner Damon Galgut, whose recent novel \u2018The Promise\u2019 follows one family through three decades of life and death in South Africa; Douglas Smith, whose books include a biography of Rasputin, turns to Russia in the 1830s to try to understand the Russia we face today; plus, the lyrics of Paul McCartney, explained by the man himself


'The Promise' by Damon Galgut

'1837: Russia\u2019s quiet revolution' by Paul W. Werth

'The Lyrics: 1956 to the present' by Paul McCartney, edited by Paul Muldoon \u2013 discussed at an event at the Royal Festival Hall, London on November 5; available to stream until November 12


Stream link: \ufeffhttps://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/lyrics-paul-mccartney-conversation-live-stream


Produced by Sophia Franklin



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