242: Booker Special 1: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgud & Nadifa Mohamed

<div>This week we’re taking a look at some of the novels shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize:</div> <br> <div>Maggie Shipstead considers the significant role played by women in the early history of aviation in her barnstorming novel 'Great Circle'.</div> <br> <div>Damon Galgut takes a wry look at life, death and the broken promise of post-Apartheid South Africa.</div> <div> <br> Nadifa Mohamed transports us back  to 1950s Cardiff to re-examine a notorious miscarriage of justice.<br> <br> And we return to Maggie Shipstead for the Books of Her Life.</div>