Stories of the sea – and a great white whale in Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle; Hungry ghosts and kitchen mishaps in Daria Lavelle's NYC set novel Aftertaste; and the latest Australian crime fiction (of which there is a lot!) BOOKS  AUSTRALIAN CRIME FICTION:  Mark Brandi, Eden  Paul Daley, The Leap  Sam Guthrie, The Peak  Angie Faye Martin, Melaleuca   Michael Robotham, White Crow  Tanya Scott, Stillwater  Matthew Spencer, Broke Road  Xiaolu Guo, Call Me Ishmaelle, Chatto & Windus  Daria Lavelle, Aftertaste, Bloomsbury  GUESTS  Mark Dunn, historian whose latest book is The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier  Danielle Bagnato, writer and book critic – whose work appears in The Big Issue  OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Alice Oseman, Radio Silence Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby Douglas Stewart, Young Mungo Herman Melville, Moby Dick Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Richard Flanagan, Question 7 V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Catherine Webb, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman; Vanishing World Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Simon Branthwaite and Roi Huberman Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown