# New fiction from Gail Jones, S A Cosby and Seán Hewitt

An episode of [The Bookshelf](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/499762704), 5 Jun 2025, 54 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/a9/Z/2q.mp3

Fiction from all over the world, crossing genres, borders and ideas in American crime writer S A Cosby's King of Ashes, a gripping tale of family, smoke, and fire; Irish writer Sean Hewitt’s Open, Heaven, a beautifully woven story about longing, escape and memory; and, first up, The Name of the Sister, the latest from acclaimed Australian literary novelist Gail Jones. BOOKS Gail Jones, The Name of the Sister, Text S A Cosby, King of Ashes, Headline Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven, Jonathan Cape GUESTS Toby Schmitz, actor, playwright and author – whose historical crime novel The Empress Murders has just been released Steve MinOn, writer whose debut novel First Name Second Name was published in March of this year OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED • Alan Hollinghurst, works • Diana Preston, A Higher Form of Killing • Martin Amis, Time's Arrow • Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers • Dahlia de la Cerda, Reservoir Bitches • Garth Jones, Black Pills • Laura Elvery, Nightingale CREDITS • Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh • Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett • Sound engineer, Harvey O'Sullivan • Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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