This week Jack is joined by debut author Santanu Bhattacharya. Santanu was included in the Guardians list of the 10 best new novelists of 2023 and in 2021 he won the Mo Siewcharran prize.

His novel One Small Voice is a beautiful novel brimming with humanity and populated by a cast of characters that feel so real you could reach out and touch them.

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(0:58 ) The release of One Small Voice
(5:00 ) Santanu's childhood reading
(13:48 ) Writing habits
(18:13 ) Santanu's recent recommendations
(27:29 ) The books that changed Santanu's life
(44:43 ) One Small Voice

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One Small Voice is published in the UK by Penguin Books

Books mentioned in this episode include:
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - ISBN: 9780141192499
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - ISBN: 9781913519438
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - ISBN: 9780141392462
A Sabbatical in Liepzig by Adrian Duncan - ISBN: 9781788169707
Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid - ISBN: 9780241981382
My Brilliant Friend  by Elena Ferrante - ISBN: 9781787702226

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