We step into Irish bestseller Donal Ryan's world in Where Are the Kings, a tender coming of age story about a boy navigating grief. Inside a fracturing mind in Emma Cline’s Booker Longlisted novel Switzy, read with novelist Madeleine Gray. A chronicle of DIY activism, collectives and autonomous living in Sydney's west in Australian writer Max Easton’s Now, Autonomy, read for us by singer-songwriter Tim Rogers, and a newer world emerges in the wake of the American Civil War in Sebastian Barry’s new novel, The Newer World, read by author Hannah Kent. BOOKS FEATURED Donal Ryan, Where Are the Kings, DoubledayEmma Cline, Switzy, Chatto & WindusMax Easton, Now, Autonomy, GiramondoSebastian Barry, The Newer World, FaberOTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going ThroughMeg Howrey, Body LanguageColum McCann, ApeirogonMelina Marchetta, Looking for AlibrandiAbigal Ulman, Hot Little HandsPatrick White, The Tree of ManHeather Rose, The Museum of Modern LoveElizabeth Jolley, The Well