In this episode of 'A Novel Take' Ken and Oli discuss Sarah Frier's book 'No Filter' which charts the stratospheric rise of Instagram from its foundation in a San Francisco coffee shop to its apotheosis as a titan of the social media market, and contemplate the indelible impact which instagram and other social networking apps have had on life in the 21st Century. 

In this episode of A Novel Take, Ken and Oli discuss Sathnam Sanghera's 'Empireland' and what it tells us about the continuining influence which Britain's Imperial history has on its culture and politics in the Twenty First Century.

In this episode of 'A Novel Take' Kenneth and Oli discuss Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis's debut work of fiction 'Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present', questioning what it can tell us about our world, and the potential for technology to build an economy which works for everyone.

In this episode of A Novel Take, Ken and Oli review the first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoir 'A Promised Land'. Considering what this work can tell us about the recent past and possible future of US politics, in the wake of the Trump Era and Joe Biden's election as President.