Australian poet, artist, hip hop musician and author, Omar Musa, tells a story of Australia and Borneo, forests and fathers, in his new novel Fierceland. An American saga of love, war, and complicated families in Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye, and experimental British author Geoff Dyer returns with Homework, a look back on his childhood and coming of age in sixties and seventies England.
BOOKS
Omar Musa, Fierceland, Penguin Random House
Geoff Dyer, Homework: A Memoir, Canongate
Patrick Ryan, Buckeye, Bloomsbury
GUESTS
Andy Griffiths, bestselling children’s author whose works include the Treehouse series, and his latest, You & Me series (You & Me and the Peanut Butter Beast has just been released)
Geordie Williamson, literary critic for The Australian, The Saturday Paper, and publisher (Picador/ Pan Macmillan). His latest book is on Alexis Wright, in Black Ink’s Writers on Writers series
Kate Grenville, The Secret RiverLech Blaine, Australian GospelRobert Skinner, I’d Rather Not
GEORDIE WILLIAMSON’S TOP 100 LIST
Cormac McCarthy, The RoadAlexis Wright, Carpentaria
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Frank Moorhouse, Dark PalaceHannah Kent, Burial RitesDaniel Kehlmann, The Director
CREDITS
Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans and Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown