New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale
· 59 min
Episode New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale
Stories of the sea – and a great white whale in Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle; Hungry ghosts and kitchen mishaps in Daria Lavelle's NYC set novel Aftertaste; and the latest Australian crime fiction (of which there is a lot!)
BOOKS
AUSTRALIAN CRIME FICTION:
• Mark Brandi, Eden • Paul Daley, The Leap • Sam Guthrie, The Peak • Angie Faye Martin, Melaleuca • Michael Robotham, White Crow • Tanya Scott, Stillwater • Matthew Spencer, Broke Road
Xiaolu Guo, Call Me Ishmaelle, Chatto & Windus
Daria Lavelle, Aftertaste, Bloomsbury
GUESTS
Mark Dunn, historian whose latest book is The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier
Danielle Bagnato, writer and book critic – whose work appears in The Big Issue
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
• Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace • Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment • Alice Oseman, Radio Silence • Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby • Douglas Stewart, Young Mungo • Herman Melville, Moby Dick • Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness • Richard Flanagan, Question 7 • V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue • Catherine Webb, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August • Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman; Vanishing World • Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore
CREDITS
• Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh • Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett • Sound engineer, Simon Branthwaite and Roi Huberman • Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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