Parties, scandals, sex, love, families, friendship, death – these books have, as they say, all the things. Nell Zink’s Sister Europe moves through one night in Berlin, while Amy Bloom’s I’ll Be Right Here sweeps through 80 years of history, and in James Frey’s Next to Heaven, the beautiful and rich fall apart rather spectacularly.

BOOKS

Nell Zink, Sister Europe, Penguin Viking

Amy Bloom, I’ll Be Right Here, Granta

James Frey, Next to Heaven, Swift

GUESTS

Shannon Burns, writer and member of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. His memoir, Childhood, was published in 2022

Suzanne Leal, writer and literary interviewer. She writes for both adults and children, and her novels include Deceptions, The Watchful Wife and The Teacher’s Secret. Her latest, The Year We Escaped, was published last month

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

James Frey, works
Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
Colette, works
Yuan Yang, Private Revolutions
Lenora Thaker, The Pearl of Tagai Town
Peter Grose, A Good Place to Hide
Pablo Neruda, The Captain's Verses
Robert Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Brian Castro, Chinese Postman

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Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls and Emrys Cronin
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