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
Small Boat: Vincent Delecroix on Asylum, Responsibility & the Limits of Sympathy
Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa
46 minutes
2 weeks ago
Small Boat: Vincent Delecroix on Asylum, Responsibility & the Limits of Sympathy
This month, we’re tackling one of the most urgent issues of our time, the question of migration across borders. Small Boat is a stunning and provocative novel that is inspired by the real-life tragedy of 27 asylum seekers who drowned in the English Channel in 2021. Rather than tell the story through the perspective of the victims, Small Boat is narrated by the French radio operator who failed to send help. It’s an audacious and uncomfortable choice – and that’s exactly the point.
In this episode, Dua speaks with Vincent about moral responsibility, the challenge of maintaining empathy at a time of great political polarisation, and the dangers of becoming desensitised to human suffering. They talk about his choice to centre the story around an ambivalent protagonist, and how fiction can make us face uncomfortable truths.
The novel doesn’t offer easy answers. Instead, it holds a mirror up to us, asking what we would do, what we’ve done, and what it means to look away. As Dua says, this book doesn’t let you off the hook – and it’s one everyone should read.
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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
