Welcome to the Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa. Join Dua each month as she takes you into the world of a book she has loved – and talks to the writer who brought it to life. Expect reads that will make you laugh, cry, and even change the way you think.
There are no rules when it comes to the books Dua chooses. Here, she shares her favourite reads straight from her bookshelf with you.
Throughout each month, we’ll also be opening up the Service95 Book Club archive, so you can listen to even more of the thought-provoking, funny and insightful conversations Dua has had with her favourite authors over the past couple of years.
Whether you read a book a week or haven’t finished one in a year, there's something for everyone here.
We can't wait for you to join us. Find out more @service95bookclub
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Welcome to the Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa. Join Dua each month as she takes you into the world of a book she has loved – and talks to the writer who brought it to life. Expect reads that will make you laugh, cry, and even change the way you think.
There are no rules when it comes to the books Dua chooses. Here, she shares her favourite reads straight from her bookshelf with you.
Throughout each month, we’ll also be opening up the Service95 Book Club archive, so you can listen to even more of the thought-provoking, funny and insightful conversations Dua has had with her favourite authors over the past couple of years.
Whether you read a book a week or haven’t finished one in a year, there's something for everyone here.
We can't wait for you to join us. Find out more @service95bookclub
Flesh: David Szalay’s Spare and Unvarnished Portrait of a Man Adrift
Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa
40 minutes
1 month ago
Flesh: David Szalay’s Spare and Unvarnished Portrait of a Man Adrift
This month’s Service95 Book Club episode comes to you live from the New York Public Library, in partnership with Spotify, recorded in September in front of an audience. Dua is joined by Booker-shortlisted writer David Szalay to discuss his astonishing new novel Flesh - a brilliantly spare and unsettling portrait of a man caught between desire, social classes, and fate.
The story follows István from a bleak Hungarian housing estate to the upper echelons of London society. But David resists the hero’s arc: István is passive, pliable, often silent – a man seemingly buffeted by events rather than steering them. His life unfolds through abrupt leaps in time, leaving the reader to piece together the shadows between.
In their conversation, Dua and David explore why he chose such pared-back prose, to what extent István exemplifies ‘a primative form of masculinity’, and how money, class, and power warp even our most intimate relationships. They touch on the book’s unresolved tensions, from István’s relationships with women and his stepson, to the existential loneliness that haunts every page.
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Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa
Welcome to the Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa. Join Dua each month as she takes you into the world of a book she has loved – and talks to the writer who brought it to life. Expect reads that will make you laugh, cry, and even change the way you think.
There are no rules when it comes to the books Dua chooses. Here, she shares her favourite reads straight from her bookshelf with you.
Throughout each month, we’ll also be opening up the Service95 Book Club archive, so you can listen to even more of the thought-provoking, funny and insightful conversations Dua has had with her favourite authors over the past couple of years.
Whether you read a book a week or haven’t finished one in a year, there's something for everyone here.
We can't wait for you to join us. Find out more @service95bookclub
