Small Boat, Vincent Delecroix BookBlast® Book Club with Helen Stevenson

Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker and read on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix is a stark, tragic, beautifully written novel which confronts the moral bankruptcy and paralysis of Western humanism and liberalism in the face of one of the humanitarian crises of our time.

Set against the backdrop of desperate migrants attempting to cross the English Channel from France, the novel challenges the indifference and collective responsibility of France and the United Kingdom squabbling over who is responsible while lives continue to be lost.

Hear Helen Stevenson in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet and book club members discussing Small Boat at Hatchards Piccadilly (February 2026).

Recorded by BookBlast® CIC  Edited by Gemma Jackson