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Sex parties, corruption and dark dark deeds in not-quite-Nigeria, in Akwaeke Emezi’s Little Rot; aspiration, real estate and misguided philanthropists in New York, in Rumaan Alam’s Entitlement, and ordinary people living extraordinary lives, and all those untold stories, in Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything.
GUESTS
Gretchen Shirm, critic and writer whose books include the short story collection Having Cried Wolf and the novels Where the Light Falls and The Crying Room.
Stephen Long, Senior Fellow at the independent policy research organisation, The Australia Institute. Before that he was a senior reporter for the ABC’s investigative journalism program, Four Corners, as economics correspondent and national finance correspondent.
BOOKS
Akwaeke Emezi, Little Rot, Faber Rumaan Alam, Entitlement, Riverhead Books Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything, Viking Penguin
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDBarbara Kingsolver, Demon CopperheadTaffy Brodesser-Akner , Long Island CompromisePorochista Khakpour, TehrangelesAndrew O'Hagan, Caledonian RoadAlice Robinson, If You GoSusie Boyt, Love and MissedPaul Lynch, Prophet SongJoseph Stiglitz, The Road to Freedom - Economics and the Good Society
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A peripatetic hotel, a paddle steamer of dreams and a dastardly law firm, in Jock Serong’s Cherrywood; one of the 20th century’s top 10 all-star ‘leading’ murderers, and what it might mean to be close to him, in Malcolm Knox’s The First Friend; and spies, caves, lies and Neanderthals in Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake.
BOOKS
Malcolm Knox, The First Friend, Allen & Unwin
Jock Serong, Cherrywood, Fourth Estate
Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake, Jonathan Cape
GUESTS
Roanna Gonsalves, creative writing academic, writer whose books include the short story collection The Permanent Resident
Tom Wright, theatre writer and adapter; artistic associate, the Belvoir Theatre
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDPeter Carey, worksJoseph Conrad, Heart of DarknessJames Bradley, Ghost SpeciesJon Baptiste del Amo, Son of ManMichelle de Kretser, Theory and PracticeWilliam Dalrymple, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the WorldJosé Saramago, The Elephant's JourneyAdalbert Stifter, The BachelorsJonathan Raban, Soft City
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Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans + Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Craig Tilmouth + Ann-Marie DebettencorExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown -
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An overview of the books of the year so far, what’s coming up for the rest of the year, and the 'to be read' book pile of regret as Kate and Cassie confess all with bookseller Jon Page and literary interviewer and editor of The Monthly Michael Williams.
BOOKS MENTIONED BY CASSIEPercival Everett, JamesCeridwen Dovey, Only the AstronautsIain Ryan, The StripGabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of TimeFrancis Spufford, Cahokia JazzElizabeth Strout, Tell Me EverythingRobbie Arnott, worksTim Winton, Juice
BOOKS MENTIONED BY JON PAGESarah J. Maas, Court of Thorns seriesRebecca Yarros, The Empyrean seriesTéa Obreht, The MorningsideMurray Middleton, No Church in the WildGarry Disher, worksJane Harper, The DryChris Hammer, worksChristian White, worksHayley Scrivenor, worksMichael Robotham, worksPeter Temple, worksBarbara Kingsolver, worksHaruki Murakami, worksNagi, Recipe Tin Eats cookbooksJock Serong, CherrywoodElizabeth Strout, Tell Me EverythingTim Winton, JuiceCormac McCarthy, The RoadKaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
BOOKS MENTIONED BY KATEFrancis Spufford, Cahokia JazzRodney Hall, VortexDylin Hardcastle, A Language of LimbsFiona McFarlane, Highway 13Catherine McKinnon, To Sing of WarAndrew O'Hagan, Caledonian RoadOlga Tokarczuk, The EmpusiumLouise Erdrich, The Mighty RedJames McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
BOOKS MENTIONED BY MICHAEL WILLIAMSMelissa Lucashenko, EdenglassieTony Birch, Women and ChildrenKate Grenville, Dolly MaunderJonathan Lethem, Brooklyn Crime NovelRebecca Makkai, The Great BelieversNam Le, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese PoemRichard Osman, We Solve Murders seriesSally Rooney, IntermezzoHelen Garner, The SeasonMelanie Cheng, The Burrow
An overview of the books of the year so far, what’s coming up for the rest of the year, and the 'to be read' book pile of regret as Kate and Cassie confess all with bookseller Jon Page and literary interviewer and editor of The Monthly Michael Williams.
BOOKS MENTIONED BY CASSIEPercival Everett, JamesCeridwen Dovey, Only the AstronautsIain Ryan, The StripGabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of TimeFrancis Spufford, Cahokia JazzElizabeth Strout, Tell Me EverythingRobbie Arnott, DuskTim Winton, Juice
BOOKS MENTIONED BY JON PAGESarah J. Maas, Court of Thorns seriesRebecca Yarros, The Empyrean seriesJonathan Lethem, Brooklyn Crime NovelTéa Obreht, The MorningsideMurray Middleton, No Church in the WildGarry Disher, worksJane Harper, The DryChris Hammer, worksChristian White, worksHayley Scrivenor, worksMichael Robotham, worksPeter Temple, worksBarbara Kingsolver, worksHaruki Murakami, worksNagi Maehashi, Recipe Tin Eats seriesJock Serong, CherrywoodElizabeth Strout, Tell Me EverythingTim Winton, JuiceCormac McCarthy, The RoadKaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
BOOKS MENTIONED BY KATEFrancis Spufford, Cahokia JazzDylin Hardcastle, A Language of LimbsFiona McFarlane, Highway 13Catherine McKinnon, To Sing of WarAndrew O'Hagan, Caledonian RoadOlga Tokarczuk, The EmpusiumLouise Erdrich, The Mighty RedJames McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
BOOKS MENTIONED BY MICHAEL WILLIAMSMelissa Lucashenko, EdenglassieTony Birch, Women and ChildrenKate Grenville, Restless Dolly MaunderJonathan Lethem, Brooklyn Crime NovelRebecca Makkai, The Great BelieversNam Le, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese PoemRichard Osman, We Solve Murders seriesSally Rooney, IntermezzoHelen Garner, The SeasonMelanie Cheng, The Burrow
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Stories of Northern Soul, pigs trotters in performance art and politics in the subtropical 1950s come to life in three new works of fiction including Vortex, the new novel from 88 year old Rodney Hall, twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award; Woo Woo, by another Australian writer, Ella Baxter; and Rare Singles, the latest from English writer and journalist Benjamin Myers.
BOOKS
Rodney Hall, Vortex, PicadorElla Baxter, Woo Woo, Allen & UnwinBenjamin Myers, Rare Singles, Bloomsbury
GUESTS
Gretchen Shirm, critic, novelist and teacher of creative writing. Her books include Having Cried Wolf, Where the Light Falls and The Crying Room. (Her book Out of the Woods will be published next year)
Stuart Coupe, music writer and promoter. His books include Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock N Roll; biographies of Paul Kelly, Tex Perkins and Michael Gudinski; and the memoir, Shake Some Action. (He is currently writing a history of the Australian entertainment industry and its links to organised crime)
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDJonathan Lethem, worksNick Hornsby, worksWalter Moseley, worksÉdouard Louis, Change; The End of EddyKate Jennings, Snake Bud Smith, TeenagerWilly Vlautin, The Horse
CREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans + Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tegan NichollsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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Kate and Cassie read Rita Bullwinkle's Headshot, a luminous debut that follows eight teenage girl boxers in Reno, Nevada. Crime writer Michael Robotham discusses Chris Whitaker’s All the Colours of the Dark – a story with a one-eyed boy, missing children, and a character who may or may not be an hallucination, and a nod to True Crime and Australia’s dark history in Fiona McFarlane’s Highway 13, with critic Beejay Silcox.
BOOKS
Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot, DB Originals
Fiona McFarlane, Highway 13, Allen & Unwin
Chris Whitaker, All the Colours of the Dark, Orion
GUESTS
Beejay Silcox, critic, essayist and director of the Canberra Writers Festival
Michael Robotham, internationally bestselling crime writer whose books include the Joe O’Loughlin series and the Cyrus Haven series. His latest is Storm Child
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDStephen King, worksDavid Owen Kelly, Host CityRebecca Makkai, The Great BelieversRodney Hall, VortexMichael Winkler, GrimmishJ.P. Pomare, Seventeen Years LaterColm Tóibín, Long Island
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What does the 2024 Miles Franklin shortlist tell us about our shared imagination? Bernadette Brennan and Geordie Williamson join Kate and Cassie to examine the winner, Alexis Wright's epic novel Praiseworthy, and all the finalists for Australia’s most prestigious literary prize.
BOOKS
WINNER:
Alexis Wright, Praiseworthy (Giramondo)
REST OF SHORTLIST:
Hossein Asgari, Only Sound Remains (Puncher & Wattmann)Jen Craig, Wall (Puncher & Wattmann)André Dao, Anam (Hamish Hamilton)Gregory Day, The Bell of the World (Transit Lounge)Sanya Rushdi, Hospital, (Giramondo)
GUESTS
Bernadette Brennan, literary scholar, biographer, and former judge of the Miles Franklin
Geordie Williamson, literary critic and publisher
CREDITS
Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans + Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tegan Nicholls and Ann Marie DebettencorExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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Bruce Isaacs on weird fiction novelist China Mievelle's The Book of Elsewhere, a genre-bending epic written in collaboration with Hollywood star Keanu Reeves. Plus, guest critic Ailsa Piper on The Echoes by Miles Franklin winning author Evie Wyld...set between London and rural Australia it's part love story, part ghost story, and Kate and Cassie discuss Choice by Booker-shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee, a bleak, powerful and viciously funny novel about a publisher at war with his industry and himself.
BOOKS
Neel Mukherjee, Choice, Atlantic Books
Evie Wyld, The Echoes, Vintage
Keanu Reeves & China Miéville, The Book of Elsewhere, Del Rey
GUESTS
Ailsa Piper, writer and performer whose latest book is For Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying – and Flying
Bruce Isaacs, Associate Prof of Film Studies at the University of Sydney; and co-host of the podcast Film Versus Film
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Sarah Winman, Still LifeEdna O'Brien, Girls in Their Married BlissThomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49Alfred Bester, The Stars My DestinationTed Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
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Award-winning U.S. author Willy Vlautin's The Horse is his poignant new novel about the life of a lonely country musician in Nevada and his chance encounter with a half blind horse. Plus, bookseller David Gaunt reviews Ammar Kalia's A Person Is a Prayer, one family's story of migration from Kenya and India to the UK; and Wellington based critic and curator Claire Mabey looks at Laurence Fearnley's At The Grand Glacier Hotel, which follows a stormy family holiday set on New Zealand's South Island.
BOOKS
Willy Vlautin, The Horse, Faber
Ammar Kalia, A Person is a Prayer, Oldcastle Books
Laurence Fearnley, At the Grand Glacier Hotel, Penguin
GUESTS
David Gaunt, co-owner, Gleebooks, Sydney – independent bookshop [and one of the founding board members of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation]
Claire Mabey, NZ based books editor and critic; founder of Verb Wellington readers and writers festival, co-curator of the writers program at the Aotearoa Festival of the Arts – and she has just written her first novel for children, The Raven’s Eye Runaways
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDPatrick O'Brian, Aubrey–Maturin seriesAnita Brookner, Hotel du LacEvie Wyld, The EchoesKatherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John DonneSinead Gleeson, Hagstone
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Kate Evans and Jonathan Green with guests Pip Williams and Sarah Bailey read Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs, Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword, Valeria Usala's A Woman in Sardinia and Jean-Baptiste del Amo's The Son of Man. Australian fiction, novels in translation, secrets and violence, cities and regions, queer love and emotional truths, and a hint of fantasy.
BOOKS
Dylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs, Picador
Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword, Del Ray
Valeria Usala, A Woman in Sardinia (trans from the Italian by Katherine Gregor), Text
Jean-Baptiste del Amo, The Son of Man (trans from the French by Frank Wynne), Text
GUESTS
Pip Williams, writer whose novels include The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho [Adelaide studios]
Sarah Bailey, crime writer whose books include The Dark Lake, The Housemate and – her latest, released in February this year – Body of Lies [Melb studios]
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED:
Shubnam Khan, The Djinn Waits 100 Years
Italo Calvino, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
J P Pomare, Seventeen Years Later
Frederick Backman's Beartown
Arthuriads (an incomplete list)
Thomas Mallory, Le Morte D'Arthur
Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy (The Crystal Cave etc)
T H White's Once and Future King + series
Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon
Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Guy Gavriel Kay, Fionavar Tapestry/ The Darkest Road trilogy
M K Hume's Merlin Emrys trilogy
Victoria Gosling, Bliss and Blunder
Sophie Keetch, Morgan is my Name
CREDITS
• Presenter, Kate Evans + Jonathan Green
• Producer, Kate Evans + James Pattison
• Sound engineer, Roi Huberman + Simon Branthwaite
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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Money, kidnapping, reality TV, politics, corruption, families, love, and betrayal in all three books on this edition of The Bookshelf. Kate Evans and Jonathan Green, with guests Farz Edraki and Johan Gabrielsson, read Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise, Porochistaa Khakpour's Tehrangeles and Patrick Holland's Oblivion. Awfully rich, richly awful.
BOOKS
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise, Wildfire
Porochistaa Khakpour, Tehrangeles: A Novel, Ultimo Press
Patrick Holland, Oblivion, Transit Lounge
GUESTS
Farz Edraki, Iranian-Australian writer and producer. Presenter of the ABC audio series, 'Days Like These'
Johan Gabrielsson, Swedish-born, Sydney-based filmmaker – and Bookshelf regular
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
Hossein Asgari, Only Sound Remains
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman is in Trouble
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
James Joyce, Ulysses
Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case
Claire Keegan, Walk the Blue Fields
Claire Keegan, Antarctica
James Salter, works
Jonathan Franzen, works
Philip Roth, works
Miranda July, All Fours
Clive James, Poetry Notebook
Niklas Turner Olovzon, Iceberg
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The band is back together! Join Cassie and Kate as they head to an island off North America in Julia Phillips’ Bear, plus two Australian novels – Jessie Tu’s The Honeyeater and Finegan Kruckemeyer’s The End and Everything Before It.
BOOKS
Julia Phillips, Bear, Scribe
Jessie Tu, The Honeyeater, Allen & Unwin
Finegan Kruckemeyer, The End and Everything Before It, Text
GUESTS
Tom Wright, theatre writer and literary adaptor; Artistic Associate at Belvoir Theatre
Nicole Abadee, books writer for the Good Weekend, interviewer at festivals, and Board Member, Indigenous Literacy Foundation
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDJulia Phillips, Disappearing EarthJessie Tu, A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous ThingBen Okri, The Freedom ArtistRobbie Arnott, Limberlost; The Rain HeronWillem Frederik Hermans, Beyond Sleep Catherine Newman, Sandwich; We All Want Impossible ThingsClare Lombardo, Same as it Ever Was
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Kate Evans is joined by guest host Richard Aedy to discuss Catherine McKinnon's To Sing of War, a novel of love, war and friendship. Plus, two debut novels... Big Time by Jordan Prosser, set in a not-too-distant future Australia where pop music is propaganda, and Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna, set during a heatwave in London as tensions and secrets come to a head over one life-changing weekend.BOOKS
Catherine McKinnon, To Sing of War, Fourth Estate
Jordan Prosser, Big Time, UQP
Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends, Fourth Estate
GUESTS
Mark Mordue, poet and music writer/ rock journalist. His books include Boy on Fire – the Young Nick Cave, and the poetry collection Darlinghurst Funeral Rites. He’s also co artistic director of the Addison Road Writers Festival in Sydney
Patrick Carey, writer and digital producer; manages content at the Sydney Theatre Company
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDPaul Lynch, Prophet SongCatherine McKinnon, StorylandKai Bird and Martin J Sherwin, American PrometheusGeorge Orwell, 1984Charles Dickens, Bleak HouseVirginia Woolf, Mrs DallowayAndrew O'Hagan, Caledonian RoadJon Fosse, Aliss at the Fire; SeptologyKarl Ove Knausgaard, The Wolves of Eternity J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the RyeMischa Berlinski, Fieldwork Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers; The Mars RoomEric Newby, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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Kate Evans returns with guest reviewers to discuss Bruce Pascoe’s Imperial Harvest, an epic of brutality and imperialism; along with Jenny Ackland’s Hurdy Gurdy, a circus saga set in a near-future Australia; and Miranda July’s All Fours, which looks at one woman's quest for a very unique kind of freedom.
BOOKS
Bruce Pascoe, Imperial Harvest, Melbourne Books
Jenny Ackland, Hurdy Gurdy, Allen & Unwin
Miranda July, All Fours, Canongate
GUESTS
Beejay Silcox, writer, critic and literary judge. Artistic Director, Canberra Writers Festival; chair of the Stella Prize 2024
Kate Mildenhall, writer whose latest novel is The Hummingbird Effect
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDMargaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale; Oryx and CrakeJane McGonigal, Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything Emily St John Mandel, Station ElevenClaire G. Coleman, Terra NulliusAlexis Wright, PraiseworthyCharlotte Wood, The Natural Way of ThingsNaomi Alderman, The PowerLisa Taddeo, Three WomenDavid Owen Kelly, Host CityScott Alexander Howard, The Other ValleyCatherine McKinnon, To Sing of WarRichard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North Sharlene Allsopp, The Great Undoing
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Cassie and Kate discuss Jenny Erpenbecks' Kairos (winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize) with critic Declan Fry - originally broadcast August 2023 when the book was first published; and interviews with writers A K Blakemore (The Glutton), Daniel Mason (North Woods) and Gretchen Shirm (The Crying Room) by Kate Evans.
BOOKS
Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, GrantaA K Blakemore, The Glutton, GrantaDaniel Mason, North Woods, John MurrayGretchen Shirm, The Crying Room, Transit Lounge.GUESTS
Declan Fry, poet, essayist and critic – who regularly reviews for the Age/ SMH, the Guardian and ABC Arts online.A K Blakemore, English poet and writer whose novels are The Manningtree Witches and The GluttonDaniel Mason, American writer, physician and academic, whose novels include The Piano Tuner, The Winter Soldier, A Registry of my Passage Upon the Earth and North WoodsGretchen Shirm, Australian essayist, critic, novelist and shortstory writer whose books are Having Cried Wolf, Where the Light Falls and The Crying RoomCREDITS
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Cassie and Tom Wright read The Parade by Rachel Cusk, her first since 2018’s Kudos, the final part of the acclaimed Outline trilogy. Once again, Cusk questions the very nature of truth.
James Ley joins to discuss Ceridwen Dovey’s new collection of short stories, Only the Astronauts, which takes us off-planet and into the “lives” of the objects that humans have sent into space.
Gretchen Shirm reviews Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti, constructed of sentences culled from 10 years of her journal writing and arranged, yes, alphabetically.
GUESTS
Gretchen Shirm, critic and writer whose books include the short story collection Having Cried Wolf and the novels Where the Light Falls and The Crying Room
James Ley, critic and literary judge. Deputy Books and Ideas Editor at The Conversation; former editor, Sydney Review of Books; one of the judges of the Miles Franklin Literary Award
BOOKS
Rachel Cusk, Parade (Allen and Unwin)
Ceridwen Dovey, Only the Astronauts (Penguin)
Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries (Allen and Unwin)
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
John Milton, Paradise Lost William S. Burroughs, worksVladimir Sorokin, worksSalmon Rushdie, KnifeAdele Dumont, The PullingCREDITS
Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Tom WrightProducer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Simon Branthwaite + Beth SpencerExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown -
Cassie and Jonathan Green review The Ministry of Time by debut British-Cambodian novelist Kaliane Bradley, a heads up, it's brilliant.
Michael Brissenden reviews Crooked Seeds by South African writer Karen Jennings, a crime mystery set in Cape Town.
Nicole Abadee looks at The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, a story that takes us to 1891 and a grim winter in a small mining town of immigrant Irish workers in the Rocky Mountains.
BOOKS
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Hachette)Crooked Seeds, Karen Jennings (Text)The Heart in Winter, Kevin Barry (Allen and Unwin)GUESTS
Nicole Abadee, books writer, podcaster and festival moderator who regularly interviews at writers festivals and literary events. Contributor to Good Weekend magazineMichael Brissenden, award-winning journalist and author. His latest book is a crime thriller novel called SmokeOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDCormac McCarthy, worksPaul Lynch, worksSebastian Barry, workJoseph O'Connor, works Malcolm Knox, The First FriendClaire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
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Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Jonathan GreenProducer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi Huberman + Ann Marie DebettencorExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown -
Cassie and Claire Nichols team up on stage at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival to grill some huge literary stars on their reading lives: Irish Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, U.S. bestseller Celeste Ng, and Australia’s Christos Tsoilkas.
GUESTS
Paul Lynch, internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels including the 2023 Booker Prize Winner Prophet SongCeleste Ng, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing HeartsChristos Tsiolkas, author of eight novels, including the international bestseller The Slap. His latest is The In-BetweenBOOKS AND WRITERS MENTIONED
Colm Tóibín, worksGustave Flaubert, worksGraham Greene, worksMarcel Proust, worksVirginia Woolf, works E.M. Forster, worksFlannery O'Connor, worksJoseph Conrad, TyphoonPatrick White, worksFyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed; Crime and Punishment; The Brothers KaramazovLeo Tolstoy, Anna KareninaAlexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte CristoVladimir Nabokov, worksRobbie Arnott, LimberlostJohn Steinbeck, The BreakfastSaul Bellow, HerzogToni Morrison, The Bluest EyeWilliam Faulkner, worksCharles Dickens, worksWilliam Shakespeare, worksMarguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of HadrianStendahl, The Red and the BlackHannah Kent, DevotionPeter Polites, God Forgets About the PoorChristos also mentioned the film criticism of Pauline Kael)CREDITS
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Cassie and Jonathan Green review Safe Haven by 2023 Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran, Table For Two by Amor Towles (author of A Gentleman In Moscow), and Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan of Crazy Rich Asians fame.
BOOKS
Safe Haven, Shankari Chandran (Ultimo Press)
Lies and Weddings, Kevin Kwan (Penguin)
Table for Two, Amor Towles (Penguin)
GUESTS
Jennifer Wong, Chinese-Australian writer and comedian. She’s the presenter of Chopsticks or Fork?, a six-part AACTA-nominated ABC series on Chinese restaurants in regional Australia
Sam Twyford-Moore, writer and cultural historian whose latest book is Castmates: Australian actors in Hollywood and at Home
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDRoald Dahl, worksJohn Cheever, worksO Henry, worksPaul Auster, worksKirstin Chen, CounterfeitGrace D. Li, Portrait of a ThiefGeoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment
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Cassie and guest host Tom Wright discuss Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History, about a family torn apart by war, geography, politics and religion, over the course of three generations. Plus, guests Claire Mabey and Shannon Burns review new fiction from Sarah Perry and Alan Murrin.
BOOKS
This Strange Eventful History, Claire Messud (Hachette)
Enlightenment, Sarah Perry (Penguin)
The Coast Road, Alan Murrin (Bloomsbury)
GUESTS
Shannon Burns, writer, critic, and member of The JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. His book Childhood: A Memoir is published by Text and has just been shortlisted for the NSW Premiers' Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Claire Mabey, Founder of Verb Wellington and books editor at The Spinoff (NZ online culture and news site). Her first book, a middle grade novel called The Raven's Eye Runaways will be published in July
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Edna O'Brien, Byron in LoveJavier Marías, A Heart So WhiteNicholas John Turner, Let the Boys PlayLauren Groff, The Vaster WildsLouise Wallace, AshMax Porter, works
CREDITS
Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Tom WrightProducer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah Corbett + Barbara HeggenSound engineer, Hamish Camilleri + Ann Marie DebettencorExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown -
Cassie and Jonathan Green discuss Colm Tóibín's eagerly awaited new novel Long Island.
Star reviewers Madeleine Gray and Benjamin Law discuss buzzy new fiction from Siang Lu (Ghost Cities), and Rachel Khong (Real Americans).
BOOKS
Long Island, Colm Toibin (Pan Macmillan)
Ghost Cities, Siang Lu (UQP)
Real Americans, Rachel Khong (Penguin)
GUESTS
Benjamin Law, writer, columnist, screenwriter. His work includes The Family Law and Wellmania
Madeleine Gray, arts writer, critic and PhD candidate in English Literature. Her debut novel is Green Dot (A&U)
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Haruki Murakami, works
Sarah Firth, Eventually Everything Connects
Helen Garner, works
Joan Didion, works
Dylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs
Jessie Tu, The Honeyeater
Jessica Au, Cold Enough For Snow
Madison Godfrey, Dress Rehearsals
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Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Jonathan GreenProducer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Craig Tilmouth + Ann Marie DebettencorExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown - Mostrar mais
