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Booker-Longlist 2026: Luke Kennard for Black Bag
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Author Luke Kennard celebrates his Booker-longlisted novel Black Bag at an evening event hosted by Topping & Company Booksellers.
Luke Kennard, an award-winning poet and novelist, joins Topping & Company Booksellers to celebrate his Booker-longlisted novel Black Bag, on the eve of the Booker ceremony. The novel follows a penniless actor hired by a professor to sit zipped inside an oversized bag at the back of lecture halls as part of a psychological experiment, with unexpected consequences. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.
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