This episode focusses, The Fish Can Sing, a novel by the great Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, first published in 1957 as Brekkukotsannáll (which roughly translates as ‘the annals of Brekkukot’). Joining Andy and John to discuss this book and the remarkable eighty-year career of Laxness, is the novelist and poet, Derek Owusu, winner of the 2020 Desmond Elliott Prize for That Reminds Me. The episode also covers Andy’s exploration of the Blitz through Frances Faviel’s memoir Chelsea Concerto while John gets granular with language in his reading of Brian Dillon’s audacious Suppose a Sentence.