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New Fiction: Donal Ryan, Emma Cline, Max Easton and Sebastian Barry (opens the original)
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We step into Irish bestseller Donal Ryan's world in Where Are the Kings, a tender coming of age story about a boy navigating grief. Inside a fracturing mind in Emma Cline’s Booker Longlisted novel Switzy, read with novelist Madeleine Gray. A chronicle of DIY activism, collectives and autonomous living in Sydney's west in Australian writer Max Easton’s Now, Autonomy, read for us by singer-songwriter Tim Rogers, and a newer world emerges in the wake of the American Civil War in Sebastian Barry’s n
New Fiction from Melissa Harrison and Malcolm Knox + Mandy Sayer's Top 3 (opens the original)
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Kate and Cassie with regular reviewer Tom Wright discuss new releases including Melissa Harrison’s The Given World and Malcolm Knox’s The Second Child. Plus, novelist and memoirist Mandy Sayer on her Top 3 Australian books ahead of Radio National's Top 100 Australian Books Countdown . Mandy Sayer's Top 3 Australian Books Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children (1940) Robin Dalton, Aunts up the Cross (1965) David Malouf, Johnno (1975) Other books mentioned A.B. Facey, A Fortunate Life George
Top 100 Australian Books from Byron Writers Festival (opens the original)
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Voting in Radio National's Top 100 Books countdown is about to open and this year we're celebrating Australian books. As you think about your own Top 10, Kate and Cassie bring together a trio of award-winning writers (including last year's Top 100 Books winner!) to reveal the Australian books they have loved and been influenced by: Trent Dalton, Claire Thomas and Steve MinOn, with a surprise appearance in the audience from Grimmish and Griefdogg author Michael Winkler. Books mentioned Storm Boy
Anjet Daanje's extraordinary The Stork and the Dromedary + Liane Moriarty returns with Big Little Truths (opens the original)
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Anjet Daanje's The Song of Stork and Dromedary, translated from the Dutch, explores the intimate work of death and care in the eighteenth century. Liane Moriarty returns to the world of Big Little Lies with Big Little Truths , reuniting readers with the coastal suburb of Pirriwee and her cast a decade on, just with a little more menopausal rage, teenage angst, and a severed finger. Joining us are regular reviewer Beejay Silcox , along with Cheryl Akle from Better Reading . Plus, critic and publi
The Haunting Wild, a Trip to Mars and Dreaming of Escape in 1980's France (opens the original)
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