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Hello, today a book club with a difference, as it's hosted at Her Majesty's Pleasure.

As Olympic fever beckons, Brazilian novelists strike out for a global readership,

and Sebastian Folks puts forward his view on an age-old debate.

I think one thing I learned, a lesson I learned from Lawrence, was about tenderness towards your characters.

His attitude towards his characters is so extraordinarily fond.

He's like a parent with children, and he takes you inside each fluttering

of the eyelid, each heartbeat. More for Mr. Folks later. Now, Jonathan Lee may not be a name

tripping off many readers' tongues today, but my guess is it soon will be. His previous two novels,

Who is Mr. Satoshi and Joy, received acclaim and prize nominations, including the Desmond Elliott Prize and featured in the Observer's Books of the Year.

In an age when anonymity is a struggle, Lee seems to have mastered the art, with biographical details scant on this British-born writer who currently lives in New York. Such lack of context makes

even more intriguing that his third novel, the utterly absorbing and beautifully wrought high dive,

should be a reimagining of the events surrounding the bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton by the IRA

during the Conservative Party conference in 1984.

The novel weaves its way towards the tragedy,

between Belfast and Brighton and in the company of three main protagonists,

Dan, a young IRA convert, the long-rumored but never located second bomber,

Freya, a bright school leaver working at the Grand Hotel, and her father Moose, the aspirant

assistant general manager. Jonathan Lee joins me on the line from New York.

Jonathan, before I get you to divulge more about your mysterious life to date, what drew

you to the events of that night on the 12th of October 1984?

Well, I grew up in the southeast of England and I think like many kids,

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