September 2026 - Flesh *Note: At Standard Hotel!*

Hello book lovers,

We return to the Standard Hotel in September!

Our book for September is Flesh by David Szalay.

David Szalay's captivating and astonishingly moving novel about the forces that make and break our lives.
Through chance, luck and choice, one man's life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London – in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our lives.
Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother's age – as his only companion. As these encounters shift into a clandestine relationship, Istvan's life spirals out of control.

Winner of The Booker Prize 2025
https://www.readings.com.au/product/9781529932423/flesh--david-szalay--2026--9781529932423