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Books Up Close is a show for book lovers, language nerds, or anyone who wants to know how texts get made. Listen as writer and academic Chris Lloyd performs a 'close reading' of some writing with the author themselves.
In this episode, we read the opening passage from Gurnaik Johal's new novel Saraswati (2025). Buy the book from a local independent bookshop or Bookshop.org [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/saraswati-gurnaik-johal/6331093].
Gurnaik Johal's short story collection, We Move, won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Tata Literature Live! Prize and the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize in 2022. Saraswati, his first novel, is out on 12th June.
Find the transcript and more about the show on Substack [https://open.substack.com/pub/booksupclose/p/gurnaik-johal-saraswati?r=6s1le&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true]. Follow the show on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/booksupclose].
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Books Up Close: The Podcast
Books Up Close is a show for book lovers, language nerds, or anyone who wants to know how texts get made. Listen as writer and academic Chris Lloyd performs a 'close reading' of some writing with the author themselves.
