Fiction bending reality in new books by Thomas Pynchon, Olivia Laing and Jeanette Winterson
Update: 2025-11-13
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This week, Cassie McCullagh and Jonathan Green take a look at Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket - a cryptic plunge into paranoia and power, where nothing is quite what it seems. Plus, Olivia Laing’s The Silver Book, a shimmering meditation on the cinema scene in 1970s Italy, and Jeanette Winterson’s One Aladdin Two Lamps, which re-imagines duality and the stories we tell ourselves.
BOOKS
- Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon (Jonathan Cape)
- The Silver Book by Olivia Laing (Hamish Hamilton)
- One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson (Penguin Random House)
GUESTS
- Huw Griffiths — Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School in English and Writing at the University of Sydney
- Claire Mabey — Founder of New Zealand’s literary festival Verb Wellington, books editor at The Spinoff, and author of the award-winning middle-grade novel The Raven's Eye Runaways. Its sequel, The Raven’s Eye Rebellion, is due in April next year.
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
- Naomi Arnold, Northbound
- Nadine Huder, Slowing the Sun
- Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
- Seán Hewitt, Open Heaven
- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy - The Rose Field
- Ruby Tandoh, All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
CREDITS
- Presenter, Cassie McCullagh and Jonathan Green
- Producer, Cassie McCullagh and Sarah Corbett
- Sound engineer, Beth Stewart
- Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown
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