How can we live meaningful and creative lives amid the housing crisis? Max Easton dials in to chat rugby league, punk rock and backyard tape projects in his new novel Paradise Estate, which follows the trials and tribulations of a Sydney sharehouse over the course of 2022.

And Jessica Zhan Mei Yu pops by to unpack her debut novel But The Girl: a campus novel about a young Sylvia Plath scholar’s journey to main character energy.