Wayne Holloway-Smith

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Wayne Holloway-Smith: RABBITBOX · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

But yeah, back at you as well.

So I was like, exactly, I'd love to do a reading of it in the London Review of Books bookshop.

And then I was talking to my girlfriend before I came and she reminded me that no one's probably read the book yet because it's not actually out till tomorrow.

She was like, maybe before you read from it, you should just at least try and frame it a little bit because...

So the way that I've sort of thought about it a bit is, I guess it's trying to look at a really sort of complex and controlling domestic situation, an unpleasant one in some ways, but it's trying to look at that or understand that as a language in itself.

So in the same way that, like, Wittgenstein says, like, the limits of my language are the limits of my world, I was thinking, like, in that kind of, like, quite tight, raw and difficult situation of a home, how the vocabulary of that situation might limit the way that someone's able to understand themselves, like a child, particularly, is able to understand themselves.

and sort of their potential or their place within the world.

And then maybe I should just say that the opening kind of half of it, so I'm drinking some wine.

I actually got a little bit drunk earlier.

That's allowed, isn't it?

Do you say well done?

Thanks, man.

So the first kind of half oscillates between Sandeep.

I was so privileged for Sandeep to have said anything, particularly in The Guardian.

Although I do regret the photo.

It had a photo of me in this non-ironed hoodie looking kind of miserable, which I...

I think I should have been more chill.

I thought that might just go on like the publisher's website.

So I didn't realize it would be like,

I think I had to march for home.

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