Claire Messud's epic family odyssey The Bookshelf

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. Plus, guests Claire Mabey and Shannon Burns review new fiction from Sarah Perry and Alan Murrin.

BOOKS

This Strange Eventful History, Claire Messud (Hachette)

Enlightenment, Sarah Perry (Penguin)

The Coast Road, Alan Murrin (Bloomsbury)

GUESTS

Shannon Burns, writer, critic, and member of The JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. His book Childhood: A Memoir is published by Text and has just been shortlisted for the NSW Premiers' Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction

Claire Mabey, Founder of Verb Wellington and books editor at The Spinoff (NZ online culture and news site). Her first book, a middle grade novel called The Raven's Eye Runaways will be published in July

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Edna O'Brien, Byron in Love
Javier Marías, A Heart So White
Nicholas John Turner, Let the Boys Play
Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
Louise Wallace, Ash
Max Porter, works

CREDITS
Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Tom Wright
Producer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah Corbett + Barbara Heggen
Sound engineer, Hamish Camilleri + Ann Marie Debettencor
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown