BooksPlus - Separate stories Podcast
1) Chris Brookmyre's new thriller, Want You Gone
'Every hack is a heist and every heist is a hack.' Jack Parlabane is back.
2) Kathryn Heyman's novel Storm and Grace
How long can you hold your breath, how deep can you dive, how far will you go in a relationship?
3) Jennifer Egan's novel Manhattan Beach
Remember the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, that swept all other books before it a few years ago? Jennifer Egan’s back, and her new novel Manhattan Beach travels to entirely different places and t...Show More
4) Peter Polites novel Down the Hume
Gay working class Western Sydney noir, with a Greek accent.
5) What's on crime writer Denise Mina's top shelf?
What has shaped the work and imagination of crime writer Denise Mina?
6) Rachel Seiffert's powerful new novel, A Boy in Winter
When all the Jewish residents in a small Ukrainian town were told to line up and be counted in 1941, what happens to the two small boys who run away and hide instead?
7) Brit Bennett's novel The Mothers
Young American writer Brit Bennett has written a powerful novel of secrets, small towns and friendship.
8) Top shelf: Sofie Laguna
Multi-award winning Australian writer Sophie Laguna reveals what's on her current Top Shelf.
9) Polly Clark's novel of W H Auden Larchfield
A lonely poet leaves a message in a bottle in 1932 - 'Telephone Helensburgh 120 and ask for Wystan' - and it's picked up by a lonely poet in the present. She calls, he answers, and they become friends...Show More
10) Writer of epic fantasy Robin Hobb
In a world of fantasy, with dragons and magic, you have to get the horses and the nails and the practicalities right to make it believable. If you do that, living ships too aren't such a stretch.