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Bookylicious

Bookylicious Series 5 Episode 1 - Orbital and space the final frontier

18 Aug 2025

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It is great to be back after an unintended extended break.In the first episode of the new series Paul chats with Professor Allan Howellsabout the 2024 Booker Prize winning novel ‘Orbital’ by Samantha Harvey. Thisleads to a conversation on of everything space exploration and beyond, withlots of book recommendations along the way.We mention the 2016 exhibition at the Science Museum ‘Cosmanauts:the birth of the space age’. Sadly the book that accompanied the exhibition ishard to get hold of now but if you are interested in finding out more about ithere is a useful link https://artsandculture.google.com/story/wQXhbpPvWOZ3JQWe also mention ‘Bringing Columbia Home’ which I was unableto find on Bookshop.org but is available here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bringing-Columbia-Home-Untold-Shuttle/dp/1948924617/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eyGsiegTJWVPSDum2CyREsKaWO_aw9J-DNhEB0kdUlfrxJGE8SND7Gxc3kgvDAjrmLC-mZJrbSVrPCKB65bdCw.wosPogPwjcem-OFn635ZceSdubiku3Roan67WIEnl3c&qid=1755526557&sr=8-1As always here is a bookshelf with all the other books wementioned https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-5-episode-1

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