Joining Kate and Cassie on stage at Brisbane Writers Festival, authors Eric Puchner, Toni Jordan, Patrick Holland, and Zeynab Gamieldien discuss their most recent novels and the books and writers who inspire them. With voting cast for our Top 100 Books of the Century, these writers make the case for their favourites. GUESTS Eric Puchner, novelist, academic, and short story writer, whose books include the collections Last Day on Earth and Music Through the Floor, and the novels Model Home and (his latest) Dream State Toni Jordan, a writer whose novels include Nine Days, Our Tiny, Useless Hearts, Prettier If She Smiles More, Dinner with the Schnabels . . . and her latest, Tenderfoot Patrick Holland is a writer and academic, and author of eight books, including the novel The Mary Smokes Boys and – his latest – Oblivion. He lives between Hong Kong and Brisbane  Zeynab Gamieldien is a writer whose first novel, The Scope of Permissibility, won the inaugural WestWords/Ultimo Prize (for emerging writers from Western Sydney); and her second novel, Learned Behaviours, has just been published BOOKS MENTIONED BY ERIC PUCHNER James Salter, Light Years Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad Joy Williams, works Willa Cather, My Ántonia Jhumpa Lahiri, A Temporary Matter Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter BOOKS MENTIONED BY TONI JORDAN Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall Zadie Smith, White Teeth Alexis Wright, Carpentaria Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet Richard Ford, Canada BOOKS MENTIONED BY PATRICK HOLLAND Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems Leah Swann, Bearings Felix Calvino, works Brian Castro, works Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian; All the Pretty Horses Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji BOOKS MENTIONED BY ZEYNAB GAMIELDIEN Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake Tara June Winch, The Yield Hisham Matar, The Return; My Friends Anne Enright, The Gathering Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn; Long Island Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These Sally Rooney, Intermezzo OTHER BOOKS AND WRITERS MENTIONED J.G. Ballard, works Graham Greene, The Quiet American David Malouf, works Patrick White, works Curtis Sittenfeld, Show Don't Tell David Mitchell, works CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans Sound engineer, Steve Fieldhouse Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown