Susan Midalia's Book Club - February 2026
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Join author and editor Susan Midalia for her montly book club at The Lane Bookshop.🗓️ Thursday 26th February
🕒 Doors open 5:30pm for a 6pm start
📍 The Lane Bookshop
🎫 Tickets: $5 including wine and nibbles
The book being discussed is Flesh by David Szalay.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Winner of the Booker Prize 2025, Flesh is a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp
Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour - a married woman close to his mother's age - as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control.
As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the twenty-first century's tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London's super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.
Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life- what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.
Date
Thursday 26 February 2026 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (UTC+08)Location
The
52C Old Theatre Lane, CLAREMONT WA 6010
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