New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale
Update: 2025-07-17
Description
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
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