Welcome to Literary Fiction on NTS. I'm Carrie Plitt here as always with my co-host, Octavia Bright. Hi, Octavia. Hi, Carrie. How are you doing today? I'm not going to lie. I'm very warm. Yeah, it's get, it's hot and it's getting hotter in this studio. Yep. We don't have Aircon. It's the hottest day of the year. I can visibly see sweat on your face. Yeah, yours too. It's nice. Yeah, it's like, relaxing, right? Yeah. Well, and I brought us some

Jamaican ginger beer. Yeah. Got ice cold cans. My throat is ready. No,

that's wrong. Anyway, let's leave that aside. I am excited about today's show. I am really

excited too. Because we are talking about the youths more specifically we're talking about

novels that engage with youth culture from a clockwork orange to the latest whye

sensations we'll be asking do novels have something to tell us about the teenage

experience and about the subcultures that arise from it from flappers to mods to

rafers our guest today is guy gunnarat, whose explosive first novel in our Mad and Furious

City is set over 48 hours on a housing estate in northwest London and told through the voices

of five of its residents, three of whom are teenage boys, hence the theme.

Octavia, do you want to tell us a little bit more about Guy?

I definitely do.

Guy Gunnaratna is a writer,, filmmaker and video journalist who has covered human rights stories

around the world and was shortlisted for the fourth estate and Guardian Books BAME short story prize.

And we're also completely thrilled to say that today we found out in Armad and Furious City,

which is Guy's first novel, by the way, has just been longlisted for the Booker Prize.

So congratulations, Guy.

I think we say congratulations to Guy many times.

Yeah.

Of course, the course of our interview with him, but yeah, it's very exciting news.

And Guy now lives between London, England and Malmou, Sweden.

Yeah, and we actually have the first exclusive post-long-list interview,

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