Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery; 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s We Do Not Part explores massacres on Jeju Island during (and after) the Korean War, stories actively repressed by both the South Korean and American governments; and Australian novelist Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore takes us to a fictional island between Tasmania and Antarctica, inhabited only by a man and his three children.

BOOKS

Colum McCann, Twist, Bloomsbury 

Han Kang, We Do Not Part (translated from Korean by e. yaewon & Page Aniyah Morris), Hamish Hamilton 

Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore, Penguin Random House 

GUESTS

Beejay Silcox, critic, essayist and regular onstage interviewer of writers. Until last week – Director of the Canberra Writers Festival

Bernadette Brennan, literary scholar and judge, whose books include literary biographies of Australian Helen Garner and Gillian Mears

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Susannah Clarke, Piranesi

Sarah Manguso, Liars

Alba de Céspedes, No Turning Back

CREDITS

• Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh
• Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, John Jacobs
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown