Books On The Go

A special episode: we sit down with Annabel Bower to discuss her new book Miles Apart: A Heartfelt Guide to Surviving Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Baby Loss.

Annabel wrote this book after her fourth baby, Miles, was stillborn. It's a beautifully written, brave and heartbreaking story, combined with medical research and stories from other parents.  Engaging and uplifting, this will be a valuable resource and great comfort for anyone suffering baby loss.  

Annabel recommends Grown Ups by Marian Keyes and is watching Normal People.

You can follow Annabel at : @foodbyannabel and @miles__apart .

Coming up: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld.

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Anna and Annie recommend books to read in isolation.

Our top 6 are:

- This Lonely City by Olivia Laing

- A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar

- A Tale For the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson translated by Thomas Teal

- Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

- Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann translated by Ross Benjamin

Coming up: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld and Miles Apart with Annabel Bower.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the William Dean Howells Medal, awarded to Richard Powers for The Overstory.

Our book of the week is The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin translated by Ha-yun Jung.  A coming-of-age story of a factory girl in Seoul in the 1970s, this shows a different side of the rapid development of South Korea. Cited in Korea as one of the most important literary novels of the decade.  

Coming up: our isolation reading recommendations.

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A special episode: Anna chats with Jenny Colvin, host of Reading Envy, one of our favourite bookish podcasts.

Our book of the week is An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States.  Joy Harjo has won multiple awards for her poetry telling First Nation stories and is also an acclaimed musician.  Her memoir Crazy Brave won the American Book Award. Harjo goes back to the lands of her Mvskoke Creek people in An American Sunrise.  It's a slim book and the poems are accessible, but it's full of depth and richness. A wonderful read, perfect for National Poetry Month.

We also chat about Jenny's read-along of Ducks, Newburyport. 

Coming up: The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin translated by Ha-yun Jung and our isolation reading recommendations.

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Adelaide Writers' Week Podcast sessions here

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Anna and Annie discuss the Women's Prize Shortlist.

Our book of the week is The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel. This is the follow-up to her hugely successful, multi-award winning pandemic novel Station Eleven. Inspired by the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, it centres on the fraudster's wife Vincent, who goes missing on a container ship. A New York Times, Newsweek and USA Today Most Anticipated Book of 2020, it's been described as 'a masterpiece' (NPR) and 'your perfect survival bunker read' (The Washington Post).  

Coming up: An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo with Jenny Colvin from Reading Envy and The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin translated by Ha-yun Jung.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the Stella Prize winner, See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill.

Our book of the week is Vernon Subutex 1 and 2 by Virginie Despentes translated by Frank Wynne. Virginie Despentes is a sensation in France and a 'rock and roll Balzac' (Times Literary Supplement).  The Vernon Subutex trilogy has been described as 'the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read' (Bustle), 'a sprawling Parisian epic' (New York Review of Books) and Volume 1 was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. 

Next up, The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin translated by Ha-yun Jung and our isolation reading recommendations.

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A special episode: Anna chats with international number one best-seller Ruth Ware about her new thriller The Turn of the Key.

We have long been fans of Ruth Ware's crime novels, from In A Dark, Dark Wood (optioned by Reese Witherspoon) to The Woman in the Cabin Ten , The Lying Game and The Death of Mrs Westaway. The Turn of the Key is a modern-day haunted house thriller - a perfect page-turner for isolation reading.

Ruth recommends Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie and the podcast Reply All. 

You can follow Ruth at @ruthwarewriter.

Next up: Anna and Amanda will be reading Vernon Subutex One and Two by Virginie Despentes translated by Frank Wynne. 

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Anna and Annie discuss the Booker International Shortlist and  Annie recommends new release Phosphorescence by Julia Baird for Aussie April.

Our book of the week is The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel.  This is the much anticipated final book in her trilogy about Thomas Cromwell after her double Booker win with the first two novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. It's been critically acclaimed and is longlisted for the Women's Prize.  High expectations for this one!

Next up: The Turn of the Key with Ruth Ware and Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes translated by Frank Wynne.

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A special episode: Anna chats with Jamie Klingler, founder of Creative Influence Alliance, the London Book Club and now working with Lockdown Lit Fest, a virtual literary festival.

Jamie is reading the Women's Prize longlist and all 24 previous winners. 

She recommends The Other's Gold by Elizabeth Ames and the podcast This American Life.

Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel.

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Anna and Amanda discuss a new way A-listers are helping children affected by the school closures: Save with Stories. And we've been inspired by all the reading recommendations for self-isolation.  Stay tuned for our top picks!

Our book of the week is Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane, exploring the Earth's underworlds in landscape and culture.  'You'd be crazy not to read this book' (Sunday Times).  It's a Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century and winner of the Wainwright Prize 2019 and the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2020.  

Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel.

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