A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America in Morgan Talty’s Fire Exit; rusted robots, prosthetic limbs, AI and noisy families in Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author; and coercive control and walking on eggshells in Irish writer Roisín  O’Donnell’s Nesting; and a brief foray into the world of ‘romantasy’ and the international bestseller Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros.

BOOKS 

Morgan Talty, Fire Exit, Scribe 

Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm [Book three in the Fourth Wing/Empyrean series], Piatkus 

Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author, Gollancz 

Roisín O’Donnell, Nesting, Scribner 

GUESTS 

Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sydney; and co-host of the podcast Film Versus Film

Sarah Gilbert, journalist, Executive Producer, Impact Studios, University of Technology, Sydney. Her latest book is Unconventional Women: The Story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia. She is currently writing a biblio-memoir set in Buenos Aires, and has a podcast coming with Sydney Review of Books called Fully Lit

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Nikki May, Wahala

Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles

Elsa Morante, Lies and Sorcery

Elene Ferrante, works

CREDITS

• Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh
• Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, John Jacobs and Harvey O'Sullivan
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown