Luke Kennard joins Tom’s Book Club to discuss Black Bag, his offbeat novel shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize. A penniless actor takes a job wearing an oversized black bag as part of a university experiment, with unexpected consequences for love, friendship and the possibility of turning the whole thing into a business.
We discuss the novel’s exploration of masculinity, the real-life experiment that inspired the story and how writing in the first person unlocked something new for him.
A conversation about contemporary fiction, the creative process and the absurdities of being human.
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