A special Sydney Writers Festival edition of Books Plus where fresh from opening night Brit Bennett talks about her debut novel The Mothers, George Saunders recasts the personal grief of President Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln in the Bardo. Margo Lanagan turns things inside out in her short story collection My Sister Down, and Lauren Child the author of the Charlie and Lola series wins an award and then Ian Rankin tells us why he loves A Clockwork Orange.