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We get stuck into some new fiction, starting with Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know, a meditation on a future shaped by climate disaster and memory. We’re joined by Australian authors Madeleine Gray and Gretchen Shirm to take a look at Miranda Darling’s Fireweather, a poetic story of breakdown and resistance, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night, a dreamy blend of folklore and philosophy.
BOOKS
Ian McEwan, What We Can Know, Jonathan Cape
Miranda Darling, Fireweather, Scribe
Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night, (Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones), Text
GUESTS
Gretchen Shirm, is a novelist and literary critic whose books include Having Cried Woolf and The Crying Room. Her latest, Out of the Woods, was published in April
Madeleine Gray, is a critic, arts writer, and novelist whose debut novel, Green Dot, was published in 2023, and whose latest novel, Chosen Family, will be out in November
GRETCHEN SHIRM'S TOP 100 LIST
Rachel Cusk, Outline trilogy
Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be
Vigdis Hjorth, Will and Testament
Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air
MADELEINE GRAY'S TOP 100 LIST
Ali Smith, How To Be Both
Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear
Jessica Love, Julian is a Mermaid
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Helen Garner, works
Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait
Erin Hortle, A Catalogue of Love
Michelle Arrow, The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia
A.S. Byatt, Possession
James Fenton, works
Richard Holmes, Footsteps
Robert Louis Stevenson, works
CREDITS
4.5
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We get stuck into some new fiction, starting with Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know, a meditation on a future shaped by climate disaster and memory. We’re joined by Australian authors Madeleine Gray and Gretchen Shirm to take a look at Miranda Darling’s Fireweather, a poetic story of breakdown and resistance, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night, a dreamy blend of folklore and philosophy.
BOOKS
Ian McEwan, What We Can Know, Jonathan Cape
Miranda Darling, Fireweather, Scribe
Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night, (Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones), Text
GUESTS
Gretchen Shirm, is a novelist and literary critic whose books include Having Cried Woolf and The Crying Room. Her latest, Out of the Woods, was published in April
Madeleine Gray, is a critic, arts writer, and novelist whose debut novel, Green Dot, was published in 2023, and whose latest novel, Chosen Family, will be out in November
GRETCHEN SHIRM'S TOP 100 LIST
Rachel Cusk, Outline trilogy
Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be
Vigdis Hjorth, Will and Testament
Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air
MADELEINE GRAY'S TOP 100 LIST
Ali Smith, How To Be Both
Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear
Jessica Love, Julian is a Mermaid
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Helen Garner, works
Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait
Erin Hortle, A Catalogue of Love
Michelle Arrow, The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia
A.S. Byatt, Possession
James Fenton, works
Richard Holmes, Footsteps
Robert Louis Stevenson, works
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