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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.

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lost novel + powerful new fiction from Iceland and the UK

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lost novel + powerful new fiction from Iceland and the UK

    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
    David Nicholls, Winnie Dunn, Xochitl Gonzalez: bestselling, debut and much anticipated authors

    David Nicholls, Winnie Dunn, Xochitl Gonzalez: bestselling, debut and much anticipated authors

    Cassie and guest host Beejay Silcox read new work by David Nicholls, Winnie Dunn and Xóchitl González.

    • 54 min
    Never-before-published & new novels from Charmian Clift, Tommy Orange and Caoilinn Hughes

    Never-before-published & new novels from Charmian Clift, Tommy Orange and Caoilinn Hughes

    Cassie and Tom Wright look at The End of the Morning, the never-before-published novel by cult Australian writer Charmian Clift, and new novels from bestselling author Tommy Orange and Irish novelist Caoilinn Hughes.

    • 54 min
    Bri Lee, Andre Aciman, Mykaela Saunders: art, ambition, parallel lives, alternate futures

    Bri Lee, Andre Aciman, Mykaela Saunders: art, ambition, parallel lives, alternate futures

    Michaela Kalowski and Cassie look at The Work by Bri Lee, plus new novels from Call Me By Your Name author Andre Aciman, and a work of speculative fiction by Mykaela Saunders.

    • 54 min
    Andrew O'Hagan, Stuart Turton, Helen Fitzgerald: some must-reads!

    Andrew O'Hagan, Stuart Turton, Helen Fitzgerald: some must-reads!

    Cassie and guest host Tom Wright take a look at the exceptional new novel from award-winning Scottish writer Andrew O'Hagan, plus, a genre bending mystery from Stuart Turton and a clever new thriller set in Edinburgh.

    • 54 min
    Téa Obreht, Asako Yuzuki, Steven Carroll: dystopia, butter, murder

    Téa Obreht, Asako Yuzuki, Steven Carroll: dystopia, butter, murder

    Cassie and Jonathan read Orange Prize winner Téa Obreht’s The Morningside, a dystopian coming-of-age story, plus, a Japanese bestseller and a new post-war literary crime series.

    • 54 min

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