Flesh - Booker Prize 2025 Winner M.R. Hall between Catherine and her scheming

between Catherine and her scheming agents in Florence

The more they investigate

Twenty-six centuries later

and the Enemy who holds his purse strings

Flesh - Booker Prize 2025 Winner M.R. Hall between Catherine and her scheming'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital 'A superb novel mordant, knowing and disturbingly wise' David Nicholls, author of One Day From Booker shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen year old Istvn lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals