Beyond the Shortlist: The 2025 Booker Longlist titles worth your time • #181

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Oct 25, 202501:03:48Arts

In which Kate is joined by pod regular, journalist Phil Chaffee and Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach. Both read over 200 books a year, and their reading stacks this year have included the Booker longlist. And so who better...

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