The Booker-winner and the Beatle
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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
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