1944: Five young lives are ended in a south London Woolworths. But what of their possible futures? What if? Francis Spufford's second novel read by Jamie Parker.

Everyone knows by now that a virus can bring a nation to its knees — the tiny terrorists of smallpox, Spanish flu and COVID-19 have disrupted America’s story in lethal and tragic ways.

Cahokia Jazz, British writer Francis Spufford’s third novel, is a smoky, brooding noir set in the 1920s, but not an entirely ...

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