'All our Shimmering Skies' is the much-anticipated follow-up novel from one of Australia's newest literary stars, Trent Dalton. Released in September earlier this year by HarperCollins, Trent's new book takes us away from the surburban setting of "Boy Swallows Universe" and catapults us into Australia's Top End - where some of Australia's harshest and most interesting landscape is on show. A beautiful story of courage and hope that I believe all Australians should read.

I was absolutely gob-smacked by the opportunity to speak with this incredibly gifted story-teller recently.

Laugh along with Trent and I as we chat about his phenomenal success, pesky fire alarms, his long-steeping inspiration for Molly Hook's story, the screen adaptation for "Boy Swallows Universe" and so much more.