Nicky Birch
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487 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Nicky Birch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was on the judging panel of the 2023 International Booker Prize.
That's probably why it didn't win.
But so the reason I picked it up is I'd just been to Iceland for a holiday.
This was in the Iceland section of the of the Dawn's bookshop that I went to.
And so I thought, oh, great.
It's slim.
It's set in Iceland.
But actually what it is really is.
I'd say it's not specific to Iceland.
It's about a queer relationship between a geologist called Samsa and a Catalan woman called Bolda.
She is the Bolda in question.
And Bolda is working as a chef on a boat and has a free lifestyle where she doesn't really want to settle down.
But she meets this woman Samsa in Chile when she's on the boat.
And they have this very kind of...
messy, passionate relationship.
And then Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik.
So they move to Reykjavik and they kind of settle down.
And the book is really about how Boulder can't really settle down.
She doesn't really have it in her to settle down.
And Samsa wants to have a child.
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