Michael Mohammed Ahmad: Bugger + Jeanette McCurdy: Half His Age + Nina McConigley: How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent & Tom Wright)

January 30
54 mins

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
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