242: Booker Special 2021 Part 1: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgud & Nadifa Mohamed

This week we’re taking a look at some of the novels shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize: Maggie Shipstead considers the significant role played by women in the early history of aviation in her barnstorming novel 'Great Circle'. Damon Galgut takes a wry look at life, death and the broken promise of post-Apartheid South Africa.   Nadifa Mohamed transports us back  to 1950s Cardiff to re-examine a notorious miscarriage of justice. And we return to Maggie Shipstead for the Books of Her Life.