In this episode, host Hannah MacInnes is joined by Lucy Steeds — debut novelist and shortlistee for Debut Book of the Year at The British Book Awards 2026.

Lucy joined us at Morocco Bound Books in Bermondsey to talk about the books that have shaped her relationship to language and to give her all-time favourite recommendations.
Chapters: A Life in Books is brought to you by The British Book Awards. Each week we invite The British Book Awards-shortlisted writers into an intimate conversation about the books that shaped them, the childhood reads that first sparked their imaginations, the novels that changed their thinking, and the well-thumbed favourites they return to time and again.
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