The Two Roberts by Damian Barr

The Two Roberts by Damian BarrA BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK A BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2025 FOR THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER, THE HERALD AND THE BBC'Crackles with creative rebellion' DOUGLAS STUART'We need love stories like these. Utterly absorbing' JACKIE KAY'immersive, intelligent, immensely sensual' ELIF SHAFAK'A novel that brims over with generosity and warmth' OBSERVERHe will stay like this forever, Robert's arm draped round him. They will be forever twenty. Scotland, 1933. Bobby

'I had a farm in Africa

and the lifelong push and pull of home

a love letter to storytelling

bizarre mobile-phone etiquette

aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores

Hidden Depths

and Strauss - transformed their experiences of the Second World War and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of music

including wood and precious metals

but what will happen when he is forced to choose between his country and his friends

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‘This is not life

In the sweltering Paris summer heat