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Cassie and Kate read Marie-Hélène Lafon’s The Son’s Story, a family story that spans the twentieth-century, full of melancholy beauty and secrets. Crime writer Hayley Scrivenor reads Geoff Parkes’ When the Deep Dark Bush Swallows You Whole, a story of small towns, envy and threat in New Zealand; and documentary maker Johan Gabrielsson reads Swedish bestseller The Group, by Sigge Eklund, in which art, sun, wealth and beautiful people meet and mingle in Madrid.
BOOKS
Marie-Hélène Lafon, The Son’s Story (translated from the French by Stephanie Smee), MLP
Geoff Parkes, When the Deep Dark Bush Swallows You Whole, Penguin Random House
Sigge Eklund, The Group (translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles), Ithaka Press
GUESTS
Hayley Scrivenor, crime writer whose books are Dirt Town and – her latest – Girl Falling
Johan Gabrielsson, documentary maker: longtime Australian resident, he was born in Sweden
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Mary McCarthy, The Group
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley
Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Cold Truth
Sara Foster, When She Was Gone
Samantha Byres, Dead Ends
James Bridle, Ways of Being
Slavoj Zizek, Too Late To Awaken
CREDITS
4.5
3030 ratings
Cassie and Kate read Marie-Hélène Lafon’s The Son’s Story, a family story that spans the twentieth-century, full of melancholy beauty and secrets. Crime writer Hayley Scrivenor reads Geoff Parkes’ When the Deep Dark Bush Swallows You Whole, a story of small towns, envy and threat in New Zealand; and documentary maker Johan Gabrielsson reads Swedish bestseller The Group, by Sigge Eklund, in which art, sun, wealth and beautiful people meet and mingle in Madrid.
BOOKS
Marie-Hélène Lafon, The Son’s Story (translated from the French by Stephanie Smee), MLP
Geoff Parkes, When the Deep Dark Bush Swallows You Whole, Penguin Random House
Sigge Eklund, The Group (translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles), Ithaka Press
GUESTS
Hayley Scrivenor, crime writer whose books are Dirt Town and – her latest – Girl Falling
Johan Gabrielsson, documentary maker: longtime Australian resident, he was born in Sweden
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Mary McCarthy, The Group
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley
Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Cold Truth
Sara Foster, When She Was Gone
Samantha Byres, Dead Ends
James Bridle, Ways of Being
Slavoj Zizek, Too Late To Awaken
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