Booker Prize winner David Szalay on the risk and reward of writing Flesh

Why Booker Prize winner David Szalay once thought Flesh was a vulgar title and why he's glad he kept it.

He joined Claire Nichols at the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival to discuss his award winning novel and its complicated relationship to masculinity.

With the fall of the USSR, the novel charts István's changing fortunes from his humble beginnings in Hungary to a lavish life in the UK.

David also tells Claire about why his first Booker Prize award ceremony for All that Man Is in 2016 was so nerve wracking, but the second time around was much more enjoyable (winning helps).