Zan Rowe and Madeleine Gray review: Chris Ames/Fiona Mozley/Niamh Campbell

June 19
53 mins

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Episode Description

Cassie McCullagh is joined by Jonathan Green this time, for a wide-ranging hour of new fiction, from Australia and beyond. First, Fiona Mozley’s unsettling Awake Awake, where a young woman begins to suspect her grandfather may have killed Adolf Hitler, Zan Rowe weighs in. Then, Irish writer Niamh Campbell’s Make Strange, a quietly eerie novel about a four-year-old asking impossible questions, including whether she’s lived before...Madeleine Gray gives her verdict. And we begin with a striking new Australian voice in the short story collection I Made This Just For You by Chris Ames.

~ OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

  • Elmet; Hot Stew, by Fiona Mozley
  • What We Can Know, by Ian McEwan
  • The Ruiners, by Ellena Savage
  • The Shepherd's Life; A Place of Tides, by James Rebanks
  • The Animators; Returns and Exchanges, by Kayla Rae Whitaker
  • Fruit Fly, by Josh Silver
  • Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang
  • A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
  • Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart

~ CREDITS

  • Presenter, Cassie McCullagh and Jonathan Green
  • Producer, Cassie McCullagh and Sarah Corbett
  • Sound, Antonia Gauci and Ann Marie Debettencor
  • Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown
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