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Cassie and guest host Tom Wright discuss Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History, about a family torn apart by war, geography, politics and religion, over the course of three generations. Plus, guests Claire Mabey and Shannon Burns review new fiction from Sarah Perry and Alan Murrin.
BOOKS
This Strange Eventful History, Claire Messud (Hachette)
Enlightenment, Sarah Perry (Penguin)
The Coast Road, Alan Murrin (Bloomsbury)
GUESTS
Shannon Burns, writer, critic, and member of The JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. His book Childhood: A Memoir is published by Text and has just been shortlisted for the NSW Premiers' Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Claire Mabey, Founder of Verb Wellington and books editor at The Spinoff (NZ online culture and news site). Her first book, a middle grade novel called The Raven's Eye Runaways will be published in July
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Edna O'Brien, Byron in LoveJavier Marías, A Heart So WhiteNicholas John Turner, Let the Boys PlayLauren Groff, The Vaster WildsLouise Wallace, AshMax Porter, works
CREDITS
- Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Tom Wright
- Producer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah Corbett + Barbara Heggen
- Sound engineer, Hamish Camilleri + Ann Marie Debettencor
- Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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