Kate and Cassie are back in the studio, introducing a line-up of October releases that span continents, centuries, and genres, kicking off with an Australian story set in the world of print journalism in Andrew Pippos' The Transformations. Then, we head to India with Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a grand tale shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. And finally, we travel back to 16th-century Denmark, where the spectre of witch trials looms large in Olga Ravn's The Wax Child. BOOKS Andrew Pippos, The Transformations — Picador Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Hamish Hamilton Olga Ravn, The Wax Child — Viking Penguin (Translated from Danish by Martin Aitken) GUESTS Scott Stephens — Editor of ABC’s Religion & Ethics online and co-host of The Minefield on Radio National (with Waleed Aly) Beejay Silcox — Critic and writer OTHER BOOKS AND WRITERS MENTIONED George Eliot, Middlemarch EM Forster, Howard's End Charles Dickens, works Ernest Hemingway, works Leo Tolstoy, works Fyodor Dostoevsky, works Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders Jenni Fagan, Hex Ceridwen Dovey, Only the Astronauts Chris Flynn, Here be Leviathans Josephine Rowe, Little World Angela O'Keefe, Night Blue Hannah Kent, Burial Rites Lydia Davis, Into the Weeds Inger Sigrun Brodey, Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness J.M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimopulos, Speaking in Tongues J.M. Coetzee, The Pole Toni Morrison, works Karl Ove Knausgaard, works Lydia Davis, Into the Weeds Joy Williams, works Lily King, Heart the Lover Michael Winkler, Grimmish; Grief Dog Devoney Looser, Wild For Austen Sofie Laguna, The Underworld  The Rose Field (The Book of Dust: Volume 3), Philip Pullman  Margaret Atwood, Book of Lives Patti Smith, Bread of Angels  Mick Herron, Clown Town Claire-Louise Bennett, Big Kiss Bye-Bye Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures John Irving, Queen Esther Catherine Newman, Wreck Eleanor Elliott Thomas, Do We Deserve This Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket Olivia Laing, The Silver Book Jeanette Winterson, One Aladdin Two Lamps Madeleine Gray, Chosen Family Chris Krauss, The Four Spent the Day Together Graeme Macrae Burnet, Benbecula CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Beth Stewart and Ann Marie Debettencor Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown