David Szalay Reads from His Novel, Flesh, Exploring a Tour of Duty in Iraq

David Szalay Reads from His Novel, Flesh, Exploring a Tour of Duty in Iraq

This month on the Service95 Book Club podcast, Dua is joined by award-winning author David Szalay to discuss his quietly powerful novel Flesh – selected as Dua’s Monthly Read for October. Told through a series of spare, intimate portraits, the novel captures moments of human vulnerability with a precision that feels deeply real. In a Service95 exclusive, David reads from a chapter set in Iraq, where the protagonist István and his fellow soldiers find themselves beside a hotel pool, suspended in the strange stillness of their return from war. There is no drama, no action – just silence, heat, and waiting. “The idea of the soldiers having this very boring journey back from Iraq at the end of their tour of duty there… the boring texture of returning… that seemed to me to unlock the strong flavour of reality,” David tells Dua in their conversation, recorded live at the New York Public Library, which is also available as a podcast here. It’s a powerful moment in Flesh, and a testament to the realism that threads through the entire novel. Buy the book at Bookshop.org, Waterstones, and Barnes & Noble Get in touch: 📩 Email us – books@service95.com 📲 Follow @service95bookclub on Instagram for updates 📚 Subscribe to the Service95 Book Club newsletter – introduced each month by Dua – at www.service95.com And don’t forget to hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From The Archives: Dua & Max Porter On ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’

From The Archives: Dua & Max Porter On ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’

From the archives: Dua Lipa’s April 2025 conversation with author Max Porter on his novel Grief Is The Thing With Feathers.  In this lyrical, surreal meditation on loss – in which a crow guides a fa...

18 Aug 44min

Lost Lambs: Dua Lipa & Madeline Cash On Her Debut, Dysfunctional Families & The Search For Meaning

Lost Lambs: Dua Lipa & Madeline Cash On Her Debut, Dysfunctional Families & The Search For Meaning

For her August Service95 Book Club interview, Dua Lipa is joined by author Madeline Cash to discuss her breakthrough debut novel, Lost Lambs. Set in an unremarkable American suburb, the story follo...

12 Aug 51min

From The Archives: Tommy Orange On Native Identity, Untold Histories And There There

From The Archives: Tommy Orange On Native Identity, Untold Histories And There There

From the Service95 Book Club archives, this episode from March 2025 sees Dua sit down with Tommy Orange to discuss There There – his powerful novel that follows 12 Native Americans whose lives converg...

28 Jul 28min

Lea Ypi On Freedom, Communism And Growing Up In Albania In Free

Lea Ypi On Freedom, Communism And Growing Up In Albania In Free

For her July Service95 Book Club interview, Dua Lipa is joined by award-winning author and academic Lea Ypi to discuss Free, Lea’s internationally acclaimed memoir, which recounts her childhood in Alb...

14 Jul 1h 6min

From The Archives: Paul Murray on family secrets, loneliness and The Bee Sting

From The Archives: Paul Murray on family secrets, loneliness and The Bee Sting

From the archives this month: Dua’s February 2025 conversation with Irish author Paul Murray, on his novel The Bee Sting.  An epic family saga set in contemporary Ireland, the novel follows the Barne...

23 Jun 45min

Kae Tempest On His Latest Novel, ‘Having Spent Life Seeking’

Kae Tempest On His Latest Novel, ‘Having Spent Life Seeking’

For the Service95 Book Club this month, Dua is joined by writer, poet, playwright and musician Kae Tempest to discuss his latest novel, Having Spent Life Seeking, which is Dua’s Monthly Read for June....

9 Jun 1h 7min

From The Archives: Malorie Blackman on race, language and the legacy of Noughts & Crosses

From The Archives: Malorie Blackman on race, language and the legacy of Noughts & Crosses

From the archives this month, we revisit Dua’s conversation with Malorie Blackman, the former Children’s Laureate and author of the groundbreaking young adult series Noughts & Crosses.   The novel fo...

22 Mai 35min

So Late In The Day: Dua Lipa & Claire Keegan On Everyday Misogyny

So Late In The Day: Dua Lipa & Claire Keegan On Everyday Misogyny

For her May Service95 Book Club interview, Dua Lipa is joined by one of Ireland’s most celebrated short story writers, Claire Keegan.  Together, they explore Keegan’s powerful read So Late In The Day...

5 Mai 42min

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