Books On The Go

Anna and Annie discuss the adaptation of The Dry starring Eric Bana, the Indie Book Awards longlist and the New York Times Top 10 books of 2018.

Our book of the week is The Helpline by Katherine Collette.   Long-listed for the Indie Book Awards for debut fiction, this is a beach read just in time for the summer holidays! 

Next week, Anna and Amanda will discuss The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the winners of the National Book Awards and the shortlists for the Costa Book Awards.

Our book of the week is The Last Girl by Nadia Murad and Jenna Krakeski, with a foreword by Amal Clooney.  Nadia Murad is a twenty-three-year-old Yazidi Iraqi woman and Nobel Peace Prize winner for her activism against sex slavery as a weapon of war. This is her remarkable memoir.

Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading The Helpline by Katherine Collett.

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Anna, Annie and Amanda are back with their recommendations for summer books.  Your beach holiday reads are sorted!

Books discussed:

Normal People by Sally Rooney (and see episode 27)

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Bookshop of the Broken-Hearted by Robert Hillman

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag (and see ep 9)

Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

The Lost Man by Jane Harper (and see ep 33)

The End by Fernanda Torres translated by Alison Entrekin (and see ep 10)

We also reveal the books we're planning to read this summer.

Happy holidays :)

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Anna and Annie discuss the winner of the Staunch prize, On Java Ridge by Jock Serong.

Our book of the week is Disoriental by Négar Djavadi translated by Tina Kover. This debut novel is the story of Kimiâ, who flees Iran aged 10 and now lives in exile in Paris.  It weaves her family history with the story of Iran.  Winner of numerous awards, this is a lyrical book, beautifully translated. A challenging but valuable read.

Next week, Anna and Amanda are reading The Last Girl by Nadia Murad and Jenna Krajeski.

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Anna, Annie and Amanda pick their top reads of 2018.  Drum roll....

Non-Fiction

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Edo-Lodge

The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain

Lost Connections by Johann Hari

Fiction

The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton

Winter by Ali Smith

Children's (8 - 12)

Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend

The Murderer's Ape by Jakob Wegelius

A Song Only I Can Hear by Barry Jonsberg

Picture Books

All The Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys

I Love Me by Sally Morgan and Ambelin Kwaymullina

How Did I Get Here? by Philip Bunting

Next week, Annie and Anna will be reading The Helpline by Katherine Collett.  And we'll be back with our Summer Reading Recommendations!

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Anna and Annie discuss Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Testaments, due out in September 2019. And one of our favourites, Normal People by Sally Rooney, is Waterstones' book of the year.

Our book of the week is The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose. Winner of the Stella Prize in 2017, the Christina Stead prize and recently launched in New York with Marina Abramovic, this is a beautiful book.  It more than lives up to the hype!

Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman.

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Anna and Amanda discuss recent book to screen adaptations and the Jaipur Literary Festival in Adelaide.

Our book of the week is There There by Tommy Orange.  A New York Times best-seller, described as 'the year's most galvanising debut novel' (Entertainment Weekly) and 'a thunderclap' (Marlon James), it was long-listed for the National Book Awards. 

Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading Disoriental by Négar Djavadi.

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Anna and Annie are excited to hear that Heather Rose's Stella Prize-winning novel The Museum of Modern Love has been sold into the UK and US markets, as well as the news that we'll be getting a new title from bestselling Australian author, Graeme Simsion, in 2019. 

Our book of the week is The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, a retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of the Trojan Queen-turned-slave, Briseis. Barker's working class origins lend a novel view to this ancient story but does it go far enough in its feminist project?

Next week, Anna and Amanda are reading There, There by Tommy Orange. 

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Annie, Anna and Amanda discuss the top 10 best-sellers and the line-up for Adelaide Writers' Week in March 2019.

Our book of the week is Bridge of Clay by Marcus Zusak, - his highly anticipated follow-up to The Book Thief.  It's been described as 'exquisitely written' (Publishers Weekly) and a 'big-hearted, multi-generational Australian epic' (Good Weekend magazine).  Does it live up to the hype?  We didn't think so -but had fun discussing it!

Next week, Anna and Annie are reading The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker.  Then Anna and Amanda will be back with There There by Tommy Orange.

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Anna and Annie discuss the Prime Minister's Awards shortlists; and the alternative Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Maryse Conde.

Our book of the week is Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope.  The true story of the 1MDB scandal involving Jho Low, the Malaysian Prime Minster and The Wolf of Wall Street, soon to be made into a movie by the producers of Crazy Rich Asians.  Is there such a thing as a financial thriller? 

Next week, Anna, Annie and Amanda are reading Bridge of Clay by Marcus Zusak.

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Artwork: Sascha Wilcosz