Join Kate and Cassie as they explore new fiction alongside guests: musician Tim Rogers (You Am I) and novelist Madeleine Gray (Green Dot, Chosen Family). Three American novels, each tackling big ideas in very different ways - from the political absurdity and humour of Jess Walter’s So Far Gone, to the mockumentary-style tensions of Patmeena Sabit’s Good People, to the darkly comic moral maze of Jonathan Miles’ Eradication.

BOOKS

• Jess Walter, So Far Gone, Harper
• Jonathan Miles, Eradication, Riverrun
• Patmeena Sabit, Good People, Virago

GUESTS

• Tim Rogers, singer-songwriter and actor. Frontman of You Am I.
• Madeleine Gray, novelist whose books are Green Dot and Chosen Family

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

• Larry McMurtry, works
• Bertie Blackman, Bohemian Negligence
• Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
• Nussaibah Younis, Fundamentally
• Niamh Campbell, Make Strange
• Ellena Savage, The Ruiners; Blueberries
• Alexandra Vasti, Ladies in Hating
• Katherine Mansfield, works
• Ian Penman, Three Piece Suite
• Zadie Smith, The Fraud
• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

CREDITS

• Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
• Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Antonia Gauci and Harvey O'Sullivan
• Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown