For Adults
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie is the next book to be featured this season on the Sara Cox Radio 2 Book Club—an enthralling, profound collection of stories about the meaning of home and the questions that await us all at the end of our lives.
You can listen to the live interview with Salman on BBC Sounds from 4 November.
We have the chance for you to win a set of 10 copies of this novel for your book club. To apply, click on the survey link below. UK residents only, deadline for entries 28 November 2025.
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The Eleventh Hour
‘If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.’
Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight’s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can’t rest until he avenges his former tormentor.
Following Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie’s new fiction moves between the places he has grown up in, inhabited, explored, and left. In doing so, he asks fundamental questions we all one day face. How does one deal with, accommodate, or rail against entering the eleventh hour, the final stage of your life? How can you bid farewell to the places you have made home?
How to apply
To apply, fill in this survey by 28 November.
