Cassie and Claire Nichols team up on stage at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival to grill some huge literary stars on their reading lives: Irish Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, U.S. bestseller Celeste Ng, and Australia’s Christos Tsoilkas.

GUESTS

• Paul Lynch, internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels  including the 2023 Booker Prize Winner Prophet Song
• Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts
• Christos Tsiolkas, author of eight novels, including the international bestseller The Slap. His latest is The In-Between

BOOKS AND WRITERS MENTIONED

• Colm Tóibín, works
• Gustave Flaubert, works
• Graham Greene, works
• Marcel Proust, works
• Virginia Woolf, works 
• E.M. Forster, works
• Flannery O'Connor, works
• Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
• Patrick White, works
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed; Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov
• Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
• Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
• Vladimir Nabokov, works
• Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
• John Steinbeck, The Breakfast
• Saul Bellow, Herzog
• Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
• William Faulkner, works
• Charles Dickens, works
• William Shakespeare, works
• Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
• Stendahl, The Red and the Black
• Hannah Kent, Devotion
• Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor
• Christos also mentioned the film criticism of Pauline Kael)

CREDITS

• Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Claire Nichols
• Producer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Beth Stewart + David Le May
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown