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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