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April 24, 2025
Cities that are both flooded and on alert for the next storm in James Bradley’s Landfall. The body of a saint, dreamily and weirdly listening to everyone around her in Western Australia, in Josephine Rowe’s Little World. And from Malaysia, Tash Aw's The South, in which a family has left the city to head to a failing orchard, a story of longing, promise, generations, and misunderstandings BOOKS James Bradley, Landfall, Penguin Josephine Rowe, Little World, Black Inc Tash Aw, The South, Fourth Estate GUESTS Tegan Bennett-Daylight, novelist, teacher, and essayist, whose books include Bombora, What Falls Away, and The Details. Her latest, How to Survive 1985, is a YA novel that will be published in May Rosa Ellen, producer and presenter with Radio National’s Arts team OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Willa Cather, works David Szalay, Flesh Gretchen Shirm, Out of the Woods Yuko Tsushima, Territory of Light Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kappa Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Craig Tilmouth and Isabella Tropiano Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
April 18, 2025
Irish writer Niall Williams with Kate Evans at the 2025 Adelaide Writers Week — with a focus on his Faha novels, History of the Rain, This is Happiness and (his latest) Time of the Child. Williams is also a screenwriter, playwright and travel writer — and his first novel, Four Letters of Love, has just been released as a film. He also appeared onstage at AWW with Kate and Cassie, for a special edition of the Bookshelf on books, reading, and influences, with English writer Charlotte Mendelsohn and Australian writer Brian Castro.
April 17, 2025
Families, secrets, mysteries, war...Kate and Cassie read Eric Puchner’s Dream State, an American saga that spans fifty years; mysterious encounters in Katie Kitamura’s Audition, and a World War II story set in an apartment block in Brussels in Alice Austen’s 33 Place Brugmann. BOOKS Eric Puchner, Dream State, Sceptre Katie Kitamura, Audition, Fern Press Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann, Bloomsbury GUESTS Mark Mordue, music writer, journalist, poet – whose books include Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave. He’s also director of the Addi Road Writers Festival – a community festival in Sydney’s Marrickville – coming up on Saturday 17 May Gretchen Shirm, novelist and literary critic – whose books include Having Cried Wolf, The Crying Room and her latest (published this month), Out of the Woods OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED John Irving, The World According to Garp Svetlana Alexievich, works T.S. Eliot, Gerontion Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name Han Kang, We Do Not Part James Bradley, Landfall Clinton Heylin, Behind the Shades Revisited Patrick Holland, Oblivion Bret Easton Ellis, Less than Zero CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, John Jacobs + Dylan Prins Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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