Michael Mohammed Ahmad: Bugger + Jeanette McCurdy: Half His Age + Nina McConigley: How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent & Tom Wright)
Episode Description
Kate and Cassie read award-winning Australian author Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s bold new novel Bugger, while reviewers Hannah Kent and Tom Wright take on Jennette McCurdy’s provocative new book Half His Age — from the former child actor whose memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died shook readers worldwide — and Nina McConigley’s How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder...does it live up to the name?
BOOKS
- Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Bugger, Hachette
- Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age, Fourth Estate
- Nina McConigley, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, Fleet
GUESTS
- Hannah Kent, novelist, screenwriter, and memoirist, whose books include Burial Rites, The Good People, Devotion, and Always Home, Always Homesick
- Tom Wright, Artistic Associate at Belvoir St.Theatre
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
- Jim Butcher, Twelve Months: The Dresden Files
- Sita Walker, In a Common Hour
- Jonas Jonasson, The Distinctly Competent District Councillor
- Catherine Newman, Wreck
- India-Rose Bower, We Call Them Witches
- Amie Kaufman, Red Star Rebels
- Yxavel Magno Diňo, The Firefly Crown
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
- Olga Ravn, The Wax Child
- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
- Travis Baldree, Brigands and Breadknives
- Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
CREDITS
- Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
- Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
- Sound engineer, Micky Grossman and Ann Marie Debettencor
- Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown