Fiction from all over the world, crossing genres, borders and ideas in American crime writer S A Cosby's King of Ashes, a gripping tale of family, smoke, and fire; Irish writer Sean Hewitt’s Open, Heaven, a beautifully woven story about longing, escape and memory; and, first up, The Name of the Sister, the latest from acclaimed Australian literary novelist Gail Jones.

BOOKS 

Gail Jones, The Name of the Sister, Text 

S A Cosby, King of Ashes, Headline 

Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven, Jonathan Cape 

GUESTS 

Toby Schmitz, actor, playwright and author – whose historical crime novel The Empress Murders has just been released 

Steve MinOn, writer whose debut novel First Name Second Name was published in March of this year 

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

• Alan Hollinghurst, works
• Diana Preston, A Higher Form of Killing
• Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
• Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers
• Dahlia de la Cerda, Reservoir Bitches
• Garth Jones, Black Pills
• Laura Elvery, Nightingale

CREDITS

• Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
• Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Harvey O'Sullivan
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown