https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2020/mar/17/who-was-st-paul-with-christos-tsiolkas-and-tom-holland-books-podcast

Christos Tsiolkas’s career grew from being a well-respected figure in Australia’s literary scene, with his dark, funny and often brutal novels including Loaded and Dead Europe. Then his 2008 novel The Slap, set in Australian suburbia and following the fallout after a man hits a child who is not his own, became a worldwide bestseller.

His new book, Damascus, is markedly different: set at the birth of Christianity, it follows the life of St Paul as the battle to create the definitive account of Christ’s life becomes increasingly violent.