Follow up from Book club meeting, 22nd February 2026

Below are all the book, film, and podcast recommendations discussed at our book club meeting on 22nd February:

Books:

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox

The Man Who Deciphered Linear B by Andrew Robinson

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

Assyria by Eckhart Frahm

Podcasts and links:

Being Dia al-Azzawi: “Baghdad to Beirut: The Itinerary of a Young Arab Artist in the Sixties” by Zeina Maasri https://selectionsarts.com/bei…

Podcast: The Ancients on Cuneiform https://shows.acast.com/the-an…

Richard Miles on BBC iPlayer – “Ancient Worlds” https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/…

BBC Sounds: Fifth Floor (series), episode title: The Tale of the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/p…

Gilgamesh translations: N K Sandars; Andrew George; Jenny Lewis

Film: La Chimera (2023) starring Josh O’Connor