{"id":686,"date":"2025-09-04T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/686\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:36:07","slug":"superstar-childrens-author-andy-griffith-reviews-plus-omar-musas-fierceland-and-geoff-dyers-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/686\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstar children’s author Andy Griffith reviews! Plus, Omar Musa’s Fierceland and Geoff Dyer’s Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. \u00a0An American saga of love, war, and complicated families in Patrick Ryan\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

BOOKS\u00a0<\/p>\n

Omar Musa, Fierceland, Penguin Random House\u00a0<\/p>\n

Geoff Dyer, Homework: A Memoir, Canongate\u00a0<\/p>\n

Patrick Ryan, Buckeye, Bloomsbury\u00a0<\/p>\n

GUESTS\u00a0<\/p>\n

Andy Griffiths, bestselling children\u2019s author whose works include the Treehouse series, and his latest, You & Me series (You & Me and the Peanut Butter Beast has just been released)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Writers on Writers series\u00a0<\/p>\n

ANDY GRIFFITH’S TOP 100 LIST<\/a><\/p>\n

Kate Grenville, The Secret RiverLech Blaine, Australian GospelRobert Skinner, I’d Rather Not<\/p>\n

GEORDIE WILLIAMSON’S TOP 100 LIST<\/a><\/p>\n

Cormac McCarthy, The RoadAlexis Wright, Carpentaria<\/p>\n

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED<\/p>\n

Frank Moorhouse, Dark PalaceHannah Kent, Burial RitesDaniel Kehlmann, The Director<\/p>\n

CREDITS<\/p>\n

Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans and Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian poet, artist, hip hop musician and author, Omar Musa, tells a story of Australia and Borneo, forests…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1169,489,156,1173,1170,111,139,69,1168,1171,1174,1172],"class_list":{"0":"post-686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-andy-griffiths","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fiction","12":"tag-geoff-dyer","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-omar-musa","17":"tag-patrick-ryan","18":"tag-top-100","19":"tag-treehouse"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}