Rita Bullwinkle's Headshot: a luminous debut that steps into the boxing ring
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Kate and Cassie read Rita Bullwinkle's Headshot, a luminous debut that follows eight teenage girl boxers in Reno, Nevada. Crime writer Michael Robotham discusses Chris Whitaker’s All the Colours of the Dark – a story with a one-eyed boy, missing children, and a character who may or may not be an hallucination, and a nod to True Crime and Australia’s dark history in Fiona McFarlane’s Highway 13, with critic Beejay Silcox.
BOOKS
Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot, DB Originals
Fiona McFarlane, Highway 13, Allen & Unwin
Chris Whitaker, All the Colours of the Dark, Orion
GUESTS
Beejay Silcox, critic, essayist and director of the Canberra Writers Festival
Michael Robotham, internationally bestselling crime writer whose books include the Joe O’Loughlin series and the Cyrus Haven series. His latest is Storm Child
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDStephen King, worksDavid Owen Kelly, Host CityRebecca Makkai, The Great BelieversRodney Hall, VortexMichael Winkler, GrimmishJ.P. Pomare, Seventeen Years LaterColm Tóibín, Long Island
CREDITS
- Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh
- Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett
- Sound engineer, Beth Stewart + Ann Marie Debettencor
- Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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