In this week’s episode, Booker award-winning author Ben Okri combines fiction, essay and poetry in Tiger Work. This incredible collection, inspired by environmental activism, displays his classic blend of storytelling, fantasy and magic in tales that imagine messages sent to us from beyond the end, from those who saw it coming - exhorting us to change now.
'Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take immediate action' - New Yorker
This is an important and incredible collection, and we hope you enjoy Ben's special reading for us.
Tiger Work by Ben Okri is published by Apollo, an imprint of Head of Zeus, and available now. We recommend visiting your local indie bookshop or you can support the Literary Salon by getting a copy from our shop on Bookshop.org.
Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman
Programmed by Matt Casbourne
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BOOK OF THE WEEK: The Orchid Hour by Nancy Bilyeau
BOOK OF THE WEEK: At the Edge of the Woods by Kathryn Bromwich
BOOK OF THE WEEK: The Funny Thing About Death by Jo Caulfield
BOOK OF THE WEEK: A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
BOOK OF THE WEEK: The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor
BOOK OF THE WEEK: The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
BOOK OF THE WEEK: The Fascination by Essie Fox
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Kala by Colin Walsh
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
Miriam Margolyes in conversation with Damian Barr, at the Literary Salon
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Black Girl, No Magic by Kimberly McIntosh
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Hokey Pokey by Kate Mascarenhas
BOOK OF THE WEEK: And Then He Sang A Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
BOOK OF THE WEEK: There's Been A Little Incident by Alice Ryan
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto by Zachary Zane
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Broken Light by Joanne Harris
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moïra Fowley
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Nothing Left to Fear from Hell by Alan Warner
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