This week The Bookshelf revisits the Trojan War from the ground up in Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody, moves through friendship and loss in Debra Adelaide’s When I Am Sixty‑Four, and dives into queer Sydney in the 1940s with Fiona Kelly McGregor’s The Trap. 

BOOKS

• Fiona Kelly McGregor, The Trap, Picador
• Debra Adelaide, When I Am Sixty-Four, UQP
• Yann Martel, Son of Nobody, Text

GUESTS

• Tom Wright, theatre writer and adaptor; Artistic Associate, Belvoir Theatre
• Hannah Kent, novelist, scriptwriter and memoirist, whose books include Burial Rites, Devotion and Always Home Always Homesick

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

• Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
• Delia Falconer, works
• Peter Cornell, The Ways of Paradise 
• Ingrid Horrocks, All Her Lives: Nine Stories

CREDITS

• Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
• Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
• Sound, Craig Tilmouth and Hamish Camilleri
• Arts editor, Sarah L'Estrange