Books On The Go

A special episode with Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister the Serial Killer. (see also episode 47).

Anna discusses the 2019 Women's Prize Longlist, announced just after we recorded our interview.  We're thrilled to see My Sister The Serial Killer on the list. 

Oyinkan recommends some favourite authors, including Robin Hobb, Anne Rice and Mallory Blackman; and the podcast Books and Rhymes.

Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading We That Are Young by Preti Taneja and chatting with Preti about her book.  

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Anna and Annie chat with Rick Morton about his excellent book One Hundred Years of Dirt. 

A memoir about growing up poor in a small town in Queensland, it also tells a broader picture of social issues facing many Australians.  Described as 'terrific' by Tim Winton, 'magnificent' by Christos Tsiolkas and a book 'every Australian should read' (Stephen Romei), we loved this.  

Rick recommends The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper and the podcasts Who The Hell is Hamish and The Dropout.

Coming up:  Anna and Amanda interview Preti Taneja about We That Are Young, and we chat with Oyinkan Braithwaite about My Sister The Serial Killer.

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Anna chats with Jo Dyer, Director of Adelaide Writers' Week.

We talk about how fiction and non-fiction can tell truths, and the joy of new discoveries at writers' festivals.  Books to look out for are Kassem Eid's My Country: A Syrian Memoir and How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee.

Jo has recently read Normal People by Sally Rooney and her Netflix recommendation is Russian Doll.

Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading We That Are Young by Preti Taneja.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the decline in young adult book sales, and remember Andrea Levy.

Our book of the week is Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.  A Number 1 New York Times best-seller described as 'painfully beautiful' and soon to be adapted by Reese Witherspoon, it's the story of Kya, who grows up in a North Carolina coastal marsh. 

Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton.

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Anna and Annie discuss the New Yorker article about Dan Mallory, aka A J Finn, the author of The Woman in the Window; and the Stella Prize long-list, with Annie naming the book she thinks will win (early tip!).

Our book of the week is The Fragments by Australian author Toni Jordan. Set in 1980s Brisbane and 1930s New York, it's a literary mystery centring on a famous author and her missing second novel.

Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the Man Group no longer sponsoring the Man Booker Prize.

Our book of the week is Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park. Described as a "brave, exhilarating novel" and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2018, this was the first book we'd read by prize-winning author David Park but won't be the last.

Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading The Fragments by Toni Jordan, ahead of Adelaide Writers' Week.  

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Anna and Annie discuss the Costa Book Awards winner The Cut-Out Girl by Bart Van Es and the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award: No Friend But The Mountains by Behrouz Boochani.  

Our book of the week is Educated by Tara Westover.  A best-selling memoir of her efforts to overcome her upbringing and get an education, a 2018 Book of the Year in the Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, New York Times, Economist, Vogue, Irish Times and according to Bill Gates "it's even better than you've heard". Compulsive reading. 

Next week, Amanda and Anna will be reading Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the books they're looking forward to in 2019.

Our book of the week is Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday.  A Time and New York Times top 10 book of the year; named one of the best books of 2018 by Elle, Bustle, Oprah and Barack Obama; hailed as "extraordinary" by the New York Times and a "literary phenomenon" by the New Yorker - we loved this one.

Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading Educated by Tara Westover.

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Anna and Annie discuss the Costa Book Awards and the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.  How many books should we keep? 

Our book of the week is My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. This debut novel set in Nigeria opens with Korride receiving a phone call from her sister Ayoola, who has has just killed her third boyfriend.  Described as 'Lagos noir' with deadpan humour, this was a perfect summer read.  

Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading Asymetry by Lisa Halliday.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, including the fiction winner Border Districts by Gerald Murnane.

Our book of the week is The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman.  Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards Best Novel, to be announced on 7 January 2019, and described by The Australian as 'a book of perfection', Amanda loved this novel and its dissolute hero, Pinch. 

We are taking a break and will return in the new year. 

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