The Booking Club
@bookingclubpod
Podcast with @JackAldane | Today’s best authors and commentators discuss their latest books at their favourite restaurants Instagram: @ bookingclubpod
🚨 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Screenwriter and novelist John Niven meets @jackaldane at #ScottsMayfair to discuss📚 The Fathers 📚, his heart-rending eleventh novel where two worlds collide in Glasgow. 🔗shows.acast.com/5eb2ec99ca791f… 🔗podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… 🔗open.spotify.com/episode/6QBIB4…
Re-upping this since everything I want to say about @usykaa today I wrote seven months ago on a flight home from Riyadh, and all of it feels truer now than ever before. "His disregard for his own greatness feels deeply alien to us in the 21st century, yet Usyk has proven it…
We really just need a dumb phone on the market that cannot download socials, but which does allow useful apps such as: Audible Spotify Banking apps Gmail CityMapper Uber Trainline, etc If you simply eliminate all apps that promote use without clear purpose, you return…
If like me you find yourself agreeing with @highfieldboxing, then you too should look into submitting a nomination for Usyk to make the New Year honours list. #UsykDubois2
Don’t push the horses. #usykdubois #UsykDubois2 #UsykVsDubois #usykvsdubois2
Fabulous evening at @21Soho for Fiction First! Thanks @jackaldane & @bookingclubpod for a nuanced and thoughtful exploration of the novel with 6 brilliant debut writers: @nicolaspadamsee @willhunterr @bog__daughter @peermohambert Harriet Armstrong & Lisa Smith. 👏
Great event — looking forward to more of these.
💫THANK YOU! @bookingclubpod's inaugural FICTION FIRST event last night was a cover-to-cover hit! 📖 To all who bought tickets, a heartfelt high five. Thank you! To the six debut novelists who graced the stage, take a bow, and congratulations again on your break into the…
🔊OUT TOMORROW! Ep#17 with @RossBarkan, who couldn't visit London this summer without speaking to @jackaldane about📚Inside Story📚, his views on #MartinAmis's disdain for Trump as a New Yorker, and what he owes to both Christopher Hitchens and Amis as a journalist and novelist.
💫THANK YOU! @bookingclubpod's inaugural FICTION FIRST event last night was a cover-to-cover hit! 📖 To all who bought tickets, a heartfelt high five. Thank you! To the six debut novelists who graced the stage, take a bow, and congratulations again on your break into the…
🌚TONIGHT! Come to @21Soho for a 7pm start to @bookingclubpod's - FICTION FIRST LIVE SHOW - featuring six of the freshest talents in fiction this year. Don't miss the chance to hear from: @nicolaspadamsee, @serpentstail @peermohambert, @EuropaEditions Lisa Smith,…
Oleksandr Usyk faces a dangerous challenge against Daniel Dubois on Saturday but he looks ready to become the undisputed world champion again. But his most important task, as a symbol of defiance and hope in Ukraine, seems as endless as it is vast. theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul…
Shout out to @jackaldane because this podcast is good. He’s a sann good host as well. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
Still a few tickets left for my event with @bookingclubpod, @judecook_, and a whole panel of some of the most exciting new writers come on to the scene this year. Don't miss it. Tickets here: tickettext.co.uk/cHPHYTmiv5
Still a few tickets left for this tomorrow night at @21soho 7pm. Do come along to hear six brilliant debut novelists talk about their books and paths to publication. Not to be missed! @bookingclubpod @jackaldane @serpentstail @MerkyBooks @LesFugitives Tickets 👉
Just finished England is Mine which is well worth a read. Looking forward to this event tomorrow - come and join us there.
Really looking forward to this. Nicolas is one of six brilliant debut authors speaking about their books and paths to publication at FICTION FIRST this Wednesday July 16th @21Soho 7pm. Do please join them! @serpentstail Tickets link 👇
'I haven't read a wittier, wiser or more provocative novel in years.' Another extremely flattering endorsement of Shibboleth in @prospect_uk's summer books roundup.
In August I’ll be speaking to Geoff Dyer about his love of Amis’s📚 The War Against Cliche 📚, a universal favourite we’ve not touched on since the fifth episode of @mymartinamis with @j_amesmarriott. Can’t wait.
A message from the English author Geoff Dyer… Don’t miss this in August 🌞
This is interesting to listen back to, particularly (in part) where the question is raised of how much damage we can expect the steepening decline of literacy to have on economic growth. For what it's worth, I see no reason why worsening literacy should hurt economic growth if…
Here is the live link for my debate about the death of literature with @HenryEOliver - happening now! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Thanks Daniel Dubois for our interview before he fights Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed title - while he wonders why he does not get the attention he feels he deserves. We spoke about his relationship with his dad, his trainers and overcoming adversity theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul…
Really looking forward to this. Nicolas is one of six brilliant debut authors speaking about their books and paths to publication at FICTION FIRST this Wednesday July 16th @21Soho 7pm. Do please join them! @serpentstail Tickets link 👇
Looking forward to speaking about England Is Mine and the status of the modern novel as part of the Fiction First panel event at @21Soho on 16 July hosted by @bookingclubpod ✨ Tickets available here: tickettext.co.uk/cHPHYTmiv5