Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by regulars Hannah Kent and Tom Wright to talk new fiction from three major voices: Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, an expansive novel set in famine-era Ireland that traces memory, myth and the imprint of history on place; Ann Patchett’s Whistler, a sharp story of family, lost fathers and the long shadow of childhood; and Christine Balint’s A Single Witness, which follows a teenage girl confronting her community and the law in 18th-century Italy.

~ OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

• Maggie O'Farrell, works
• Ann Patchett, works
• Christine Balint, works
• George R.Stewart, Names On The Land 
• Sumner Locke Elliott’s Careful, He Might Hear You 
• Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch 
• Dominic Hoey, 1985
• Ingrid Horrocks, All Her Lives: Nine Stories
• Tāme Iti, MANA

~ CREDITS

• Presenter: Kate Evans
• Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
• Sound: Micky Grossman, Isabella Tropiano
• Arts editor: Rhiannon Brown