Anna and Annie discuss the 2026 Booker International Shortlist.
 
Our book of the week is HEART THE LOVER by Lily King. This buzzy novel follows three friends at university and into adulthood.  A follow up from King's best-seller WRITERS AND LOVERS, it is an instant New York Times best-seller and is long-listed for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction (shortlist to be announced on 22 April). It's also Zadie Smith's pick for 'the book that made me weep uncontrollably.'
 
More literary romances:
THE EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY by Shirley Hazzard
SEEING OTHER PEOPLE by Diana Reid
 

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