For Adults
The next book to be featured this season on the Sara Cox Radio 2 Book Club is Contrapposto by Dave Eggers—twenty years in the making, a novel about art, life and the complicated beauty of both.
The book was released on 7 July and Dave’s interview with Sara is on BBC Sounds from Tuesday 20 October.
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 4 November 2026.
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Contrapposto
Cricket is just a shy kid who likes drawing when he first meets Olympia. She’s older, more confident; she bullies him into some light vandalism and instantly he’s in love. When they’re together, they talk about their futures, how they’re going to travel the world, the beauty and rapture of art.
Then those futures start to arrive in unexpected ways, the years and decades pile up between them, the art world seduces and disappoints and frustrates them. And they have to figure out, again and again, what it is to be an artist, and who and what to love.
This is a wild and beautiful novel about two friends who believe they can change the world, if only they can start their own movement, dodge charlatans, remain open-eyed and open-hearted, avoid going mad, avoid
dying young of rare cancers, stay true to their ideals and never tire of beauty. Not easy, but not impossible, either.
How to apply
To apply, fill in this survey by 4 November.
