Podcast with @JackAldane | Today’s best authors discuss their latest books at their favourite restaurants Instagram: @ bookingclubpod
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Join @jackaldane, @jjcharlesworth_, @spikedonline’s Tim Black and Georgina Mumford at this year’s #battlefest to celebrate 75 years of 📚 The Catcher in the Rye 📚 @Fox_Claire @MaximumCities
Don’t be a phony! Get your tickets now. ⬇️
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Enjoyable discussion of The Catcher in the Rye on @bookingclubpod with @jackaldane @jjcharlesworth_ Tim Black and emergency guest whose name I didn’t catch. Strange how it’s such a curriculum favourite but also associated with Kurt Cobain’s death and Lennon’s killer.
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"Even before we start the festival, there's an incredible energy in Church House... We agree with each other on the need to disagree with each other civilly and have it out in public."
@Fox_Claire opens the 21st Battle of Ideas...
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The @the_met_review party last night was incredible. Literary life is alive and well in this technological age.
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Top tip - there’s an upstairs bar that’s really quite pleasant which charges only a bit more than the pubs and is rarely crowded. It’s like a private members club without a membership fee
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EMPIRE, my new novel, is coming next May. It's about a terrorist attack in the heart of Manhattan, a torrid love affair between a star ballplayer's wife and the Mayor, and the fallout of a tragic - and very strange - day. Don't miss it.
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Anne Carson boxes three times a week. Every day is a school day.
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The Catcher in the Rye, 75 years on: does Holden Caulfield still speak to us? 9/14🧵
@BookingClubPod’s @jackaldane joins Tim Black, JJ Charlesworth & Georgina Mumford to explore Salinger’s classic of teenage rebellion.
Sun 18 Oct | 11:00–12:30
battleofideas.org.uk/session…
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Thrilled for my beloved @Leon_C_C whose debut novel The Decadence (Sceptre) has been
Longlisted for @PolariPrize. Put now in paperback its’s a dark update on The Decameron, set in a haunted house, and she’ll be talking about these @OwlBookshop on 22 October.
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Yeah, you clearly haven't read Kipling's collected poems. "Recessional", quoted on the right, is of course an extraordinary poem. Another of Kipling's verses reads:
"With my ‘Pilly-willy-winky-winky-popp!’"
Kipling and Anne Carson were, I think, both worthy winners.
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We really should put an end to the phrase “the history books will show”, as if any attempt to wrangle our age into a coherent and thorough account will ever be possible, let alone credible. It’s nice to imagine such books being written, but the idea is a lexical skeuomorph at this point, based on a hope that we will one day pause long enough to look back with attention to detail. I don’t think that’s ever happening.
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Looking forward to talking about male friendship next Saturday - a subject almost as close to my heart as female friendship, as celebrated in The Three Graces! I focus on Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies but I’ll be talking about many other literary friends too inc Lord of the Rings.
Ep #5 is coming this October, and our first female guest on The Lit Path is the marvellous @AmandaPCraig, author of the new novel High and Low.
Amanda speaks to @jackaldane about the melodies and mysteries of male friendship as written in Andrew O'Hagan's Mayflies (2020).
Stay tuned!
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“He met Heracles, and the kingdoms of his life all shifted down a few notches.”
Wow 😳…
@ioanmarcjones reads from Anne Carson’s 📚 Autobiography of Red 📚 with @jackaldane on Ep. 2
#AnneCarson was today announced this year’s #nobelprize winner in literature.
Full episode ⬇️
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11:00–12:30 on Sunday 18 October at #battlefest 2026: @BookingClubPod celebrates 📚 The Catcher in the Rye 📚 at 75 🎂
Me, Tim Black, @jjcharlesworth_ & Georgina Mumford together explore the novel’s groundbreaking portrayal of rebellion, alienation and dubious self-formation through JD Salinger’s infamous protagonist, Holden Caulfield.
@Fox_Claire @MaximumCities
Watch your favourite podcasts – live and ‘in the flesh’ @ #BATTLEFEST 2026
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
10:15–11:45 | THE LIFE SCI FANTASTIC
Weight-loss jabs: the end of willpower? @EliotForster & Dr Federica Amati explore appetite, responsibility and better health.
12:15–13:30 | THE SPIKED PODCAST
Politics, free speech & the culture war with @FraserMyers @Tom_Slater_ @kafkaswife @francisjfoster & @AndrewGold_ok. @spikedonline
13:45–14:30 | ARTS FIRST
Myth, religion & national identity with Niall Crowley & Dolan Cummings.
13:45–14:30 | THIS ISN’T WORKING
Are women to blame for ‘woke’ workplaces? Tanya de Grunwald & @jowilliams293 tackle the question. @IsntWorkingPod
14:45–16:15 | THE FREE SPEECH UNION
On the free speech frontline with @_ConnieShaw @BenBarryJones @janmacvarish & @DavidRoseUK. @SpeechUnion
16:45–18:15 | THE BRINK
Islam in Britain after October 7: @mr_andrew_fox @JakeWSimons & Fiyaz Mughal discuss extremism, assimilation and British Muslim communities.
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
11:00–12:30 | PLANET NORMAL
News & views from beyond the bubble with @LiamHalligan @AllisonPearson @LucyTCWife & Robert Tombs.
11:00–12:30 | THE BOOKING CLUB
The Catcher in the Rye, 75 years on: @jackaldane, Tim Black, @jjcharlesworth_ & Georgina Mumford explore rebellion and alienation. @BookingClubPod
12:45–13:30 | COFFEE HOUSE SHOTS
Political analysis from @spectator with @JAHeale & @scarlett__mag.
13:45–15:15 | THE STATE OF IT
Reports from the coalface of British politics with @Steven_Swinford @patrickkmaguire & @lara_spirit. @thetimes
15:45–17:00 | LAST ORDERS
The latest nanny state news with @Tom_Slater_ @cjsnowdon @TonyLapidus & @GHWTowler. @spikedonline
17:15–18:30 | TAKE ME HOME
Growing Up in the Culture Wars: Sebastian Moore, @RedActuary, Jennie Bristow & Ellie Lee explore identity, adulthood and generational bonds.
Which debates will you join? Explore the programme and book your place:
battleofideas.org.uk/
#BattleFest #LivePodcasts #FreeSpeech
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Congratulations to the Canadian author Anne Carson on winning the 2026 #nobelprize in literature!
Carson was @ioanmarcjones’s pick for discussion on Ep#2 of the series.
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This by @emmanancycline is a masterpiece. It’s interesting that it failed to make the Booker shortlist. It’s not about a social issue. It’s - in the most focussed, absolute, wildly truth-telling way - about death, which also means life. It’s about something eternal. This might imply that art needn’t always be purely of the moment and political. Which I assume counts against it.
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“While in the moment, the event felt akin to a desecration on a scale not witnessed since the dissolution of the monasteries or perhaps the sacking of Rome, I have since concluded that I’ve had few experiences more nourishing to – dare I say it – my literary soul.
I entered the event with my #MartinAmis, literary hero built from a disembodied jumble of quotations and reported wit; I left with a less certain but somehow more actualised picture of the Martin Amis and his work.”
Thoughts from My Martin Amis LIVE, by Daniel Forster
🔗 ⬇️
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London’s oldest chophouse has reopened.
Read our full review of Cloth Cornhill 👇
ow.ly/5Ovp50ZUtt2
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Join us for two fantastic events with Jonathan Coe as we celebrate and discuss his stunning new novel, LESSONS IN HARMONY. Details here: waterstones.com/events/searc…
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FT and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award 2026 — the shortlist ft.trib.al/u93ucsV
