Dua Lipa‘s June pick for her Service95 book club is ‘Widow Basquiat‘ by Jennifer Clement. The non-fiction book is a chaotic love story between artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and his lover and muse, Suzanne Malouk. It follow them when they meet at 20 years old and into hustling in 1980s New York. Dua says the book is “a remarkably deep, tender and, at times, disturbing study of these two young souls – their difficult childhoods, the clubs, bars and galleries they inhabit and the forces of ambition, jealousy and excess that ultimately lead to Basquiat’s death at the age of only 27.”

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Dua Lipa has launched a brand-new Instagram page for her Service95 book club, which you can follow here: @service95bookclub. It will bring even more brilliant books, inspiring authors and behind the scenes content all in one place. The book club interviews have also been launched into a podcast titled “Service95 Book Club with Dua Lipa,” which can be wherever you listen to your podcasts from 10th June.

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Dua Lipa‘s May pick for her Service95 book club is ‘Still Born‘ by Guadalupe Nettel and translated by Rosalind Harvey. The book follows Laura and Alina who are friends in their early 30s living in Mexico. Both are determinedly childfree, believing that motherhood is a trap of the patriarchy. But then Alina changes her mind. You would think this is where their lives diverge, but Alina’s life is upended with a devastating medical diagnosis for her unborn daughter, and Alina and Laura’s friendship becomes more important than never. Baby Inés doesn’t die as her parents feared – she is still born, despite her prognosis. But Nettel doesn’t shy away from the complex realities of raising a child with profound disabilities. Dua says “it focuses on the transcendent power of love, as the parents get to know their daughter.”

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Dua Lipa‘s April pick for her Service95 book club is ‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter. The novel tells the story of a young family devastated by grief when the boys’ mother suddenly dies. As the weight of their grief threatens to sink then, a human-sized cow arrives on their doorstep and moves in, announcing that he will stay there until they no longer need him. Is the giant talking cow real or a figment of their imagination? That’s the question that carries through the book but, by the end, it barely matters. Dua said: “Ever so occasionally, you pick up a book and it spins you around and turns you upside down. This is one of those books.”

Dua Lipa‘s March pick for her Service95 book club is ‘There There‘ by Tommy Orange. The novel follows twelve characters from Native communities, all travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow, who are all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realise. Dua said Orange “starts with a brief but sharp history lesson in the prologue of ‘There There,’ dispelling 400 years of slurs and stereotypes against Native people in 10 fiery pages — almost too painful to bear, but essential to start his story.”