A live recording from the 2025 Melbourne Writers Festival, with guests Hannah Kent and Beejay Silcox.

• Hannah Kent, Always Home, Always Homesick (Picador)
• Eimear McBride, The City Changes Its Face (Faber)
• Susan Choi, Flashlight (Jonathan Cape)
• Edward St Aubyn, Parallel Lines (Jonathan Cape)
• Caryl Phillips, Another Man in the Street (Bloomsbury)

Guests

Hannah Kent is the author of the novels Burial Rites, The Good People and Devotion. Her latest book is the memoir, Always Home, Always Homesick

Beejay Silcox is a critic, writer, festival director and literary interviewer

Other Books Mentioned

• Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
• Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• Eric Puchner, Dream State
• Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
• Emily Maguire, Rapture
• Mariana Enríquez, A Sunny Place for Shady People
• Susan Hampton, Anything Can Happen