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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.

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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.

    Kaliane Bradley's extraordinary time travel love story

    Kaliane Bradley's extraordinary time travel love story

    Cassie and Jonathan Green review The Ministry of Time by debut British-Cambodian novelist Kaliane Bradley, a heads up, it's brilliant.

     

    • 54 min
    Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch joins an all-star panel from SWF

    Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch joins an all-star panel from SWF

    Cassie and Claire Nichols team up on stage at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival to grill some huge literary stars on their reading lives, including 2023 Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, US bestseller Celeste Ng, and Australia’s Christos Tsoilkas.

    GUESTS
    Paul Lynch, internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels  including the 2023 Booker Prize Winner Prophet Song
    Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts
    Christos Tsiolkas, author of eight novels, including the international bestseller The Slap. His latest is The In-Between

    • 53 min
    A new novel from Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran

    A new novel from Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran

    Cassie and Jonathan Green review Safe Haven by 2023 Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran.

    • 54 min
    Claire Messud's epic family odyssey

    Claire Messud's epic family odyssey

    Cassie and guest host Tom Wright discuss Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History, about a family torn apart by war, geography, politics and religion, over the course of three generations. 

    • 33 sec
    Colm Tóibín's long awaited sequel to Brooklyn

    Colm Tóibín's long awaited sequel to Brooklyn

    Cassie and Jonathan Green discuss Colm Toibin's eagerly awaited new novel Long Island. 

    • 15 sec
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lost novel

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lost novel

    Cassie and Jonathan Green look at Until August, the lost novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and guest reviewers Hannah Kent and Roanna Gonsalves discuss powerful new fiction out of Iceland and the UK.

    • 58 min

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