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What are you reading, loving or being challenged by? We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.
Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Homework
The Bookshelf
54 minutes 6 seconds
2 months ago
Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Homework
Australian poet, artist, hip hop musician and author, Omar Musa, tells a story of Australia and Borneo, forests and fathers, in his new novel Fierceland. An American saga of love, war, and complicated families in Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye, and experimental British author Geoff Dyer returns with Homework, a look back on his childhood and coming of age in sixties and seventies England.
BOOKS
Omar Musa, Fierceland, Penguin Random House
Geoff Dyer, Homework: A Memoir, Canongate
Patrick Ryan, Buckeye, Bloomsbury
GUESTS
Andy Griffiths, bestselling children’s author whose works include the Treehouse series, and his latest, You & Me series (You & Me and the Peanut Butter Beast has just been released)
Geordie Williamson, literary critic for The Australian, The Saturday Paper, and publisher (Picador/ Pan Macmillan). His latest book is on Alexis Wright, in Black Ink’s Writers on Writers series
ANDY GRIFFITH'S TOP 100 LIST
Kate Grenville, The Secret River
Lech Blaine, Australian Gospel
Robert Skinner, I'd Rather Not
GEORDIE WILLIAMSON'S TOP 100 LIST
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Alexis Wright, Carpentaria
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Frank Moorhouse, Dark Palace
Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
Daniel Kehlmann, The Director
CREDITS
Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Roi Huberman
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
The Bookshelf
What are you reading, loving or being challenged by? We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.