Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa

• The Trees: Percival Everett on Satire, Justice & America’s Haunted Past

  This month, Dua is joined by one of the most singular voices in American fiction – the acclaimed author Percival Everett whose novel The Trees was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. It’s not an understatement to say that Percival is having a moment – his most recent novel James won the 2024 National Book Award and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize, while American Fiction, the film adaptation of his novel Erasure, won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2024. On the surface, The Trees is a murder mystery. But scratch deeper and it becomes a furious, funny, and fearless interrogation of racism, lynching, and America’s unfinished reckoning with its own past. Taking inspiration from the real-life story of Emmett Till, Percival uses dark comedy and genre subversion to create something bold and unforgettable. Trigger Warning: Contains discussion of racial violence. Buy the book at Bookshop.org, Waterstones, and Barnes & Noble  Get in touch:   📩 Email us – [email protected]   📲 Follow @service95bookclub on Instagram for updates   📚 Subscribe to the Service95 Book Club newsletter – introduced each month by Dua – at www.service95.com   And don’t forget to hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• From the Archive – The Guest: Emma Cline On Outsiders, Delusion & Desire

  Welcome to the Service95 Book Club with Dua Lipa, a podcast dedicated to the books that stay with us – and the brilliant minds behind them.As well as bringing you a brand-new episode every month, we’ll also be dipping into the archive of fascinating conversations Dua has had with authors over the past two years. In this archive episode, Dua sits down with New York Times-bestselling author Emma Cline to talk about her haunting novel The Guest – a story of a young woman adrift in the Hamptons over one long summer, where tension shimmers below the surface. Emma and Dua explore the art of writing characters you never fully trust, how social class and privilege shape invisible boundaries, why delusion can be its own kind of survival strategy, and the ambiguous ending that has left readers everywhere debating Alex’s fate. Buy the book at Bookshop.org, Waterstones and Barnes & Noble    Get in touch:   📩 Email us – [email protected]   📲 Follow @service95bookclub on Instagram for updates   📚 Subscribe to the Service95 Book Club newsletter – introduced each month by Dua – at www.service95.com   And don’t forget to hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• Helen Garner Reads from Her Gripping Courtroom Drama, This House of Grief

  This month on the Service95 Book Club podcast, Dua is joined by legendary Australian author Helen Garner to discuss her quietly devastating masterpiece, This House Of Grief. Selected as Dua’s Monthly Read for August, this true crime classic recounts the harrowing case of Robert Farquharson, a father accused of drowning his three young sons by driving them into a dam on Father’s Day.   In a Service95 exclusive, Helen reads the haunting opening pages of the book – a passage that sets the emotional tone for everything that follows. Her voice carries the weight of a story that has never left the Australian psyche, and her reflections throughout the episode explore the moral complexities of guilt, empathy, and writing about real human suffering. Buy the book at Bookshop.org, Waterstones, and Barnes & Noble   Get in touch:   📩 Email us – [email protected]   📲 Follow @service95bookclub on Instagram for updates   📚 Subscribe to the Service95 Book Club newsletter – introduced each month by Dua – at www.service95.com   And don’t forget to hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• This House of Grief: Helen Garner on Empathy, Guilt & Writing Through The Unthinkable

  What does it mean to truly bear witness – especially to something that defies comprehension?  This month on the Service95 Book Club, Dua is joined by legendary Australian writer Helen Garner to discuss This House Of Grief – a haunting account of a father on trial for the murder of his three young sons. The book is part true crime, part literary reportage, and wholly unflinching. As Dua says, it has the pace of a thriller, but it also forces us to ask the most uncomfortable questions about love, justice, and the limits of empathy.  Together, Dua and Helen reflect on the power of literature to confront our darkest instincts, and the courage it takes to look – and not look away.  Buy the book at Bookshop.org, Waterstones, and Barnes & Noble   Get in touch:   📩 Email us – [email protected]   📲 Follow @service95bookclub on Instagram for updates   📚 Subscribe to the Service95 Book Club newsletter – introduced each month by Dua – at www.service95.com   And don’t forget to hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• From the Archive – Trust: Hernan Diaz On Power, Silence & Who Gets To Tell The Story

  Welcome to the Service95 Book Club with Dua Lipa, a podcast dedicated to the books that stay with us – and the brilliant minds behind them.  As well as bringing you a brand-new episode every month, we’ll also be dipping into the archive of fascinating conversations Dua has had with authors over the past two years.  This time from the archive, Dua sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hernan Diaz to talk about his bold and genre-defying novel Trust – a mind-bending story told through four interlocking narratives.  In this episode, Hernan and Dua explore what it means to search for truth in a world of competing stories, how women have been systematically excluded from the history of money and power, and why silence can sometimes be more revealing than words.    Buy the book at Bookshop.org, Waterstones, and Barnes & Noble  Get in touch:  📩 Email us – [email protected]  📲 Follow @service95bookclub on Instagram for updates  📚 Subscribe to the Service95 Book Club newsletter – introduced each month by Dua – at www.service95.com  And don’t forget to hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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