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When the Booker Prize judges met to discuss the six stellar books shortlisted for the 2025 prize, there was one book to which they kept returning in their five-hour deliberations: Hungarian–British author David Szalay’s Flesh.
A spare and propulsive novel, it follows a man from adolescence to old age as he is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp, and asks profound questions about what makes a life worth living – and what breaks it.
Roddy Doyle, Chair of judges, remarked “[w]e had never read anything quite like it” and described it as an “extraordinary, singular novel”.
In this special event, Doyle talks to Szalay about his lauded book and hears his reflections six months on from winning the life-changing prize.
Supported by Platinum Patrons Betsy & Michael Benjamin.
