Stories of love, friendship, and the ties that bind - with a dash of dirt and darkness in three new works of fiction...Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family, a sharp exploration of friendship, love, and what it means to grow up when life gets messy; Chris Kraus' The Four Spent The Day Together, an autofiction-ish journey through a fractured America; and Graeme Macrae Burnet's Benbecula, where secrets unravel on the windswept shores of the Outer Hebrides.

BOOKS

Graeme Macrae Burnet, Benbecula, Text
Madeleine Gray, Chosen Family, Summit Books
Chris Kraus, The Four Spent the Day Together, Scribe

GUESTS

Nicola Heath, ABC Arts journalist; editor of ABC Online monthly book review column
Patrick Carey, writer and content maker who works at Sydney Theatre Company

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Mary McCarthy, The Group
Dylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs
David Owen Kelly, Host City
Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore
Andrew Pippos, The Transformations
Helen Whybrow, Salt Stones 
James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life
Maggie Mackellar, works
Andrew Miller, A Land in Winter
Lisa Tuttle, My Death
A.S. Byatt, Possession
Edmund White, The Married Man
Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

CREDITS

Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls, Antonia Gauci and Tim Jenkins
Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family + Chris Kraus and Graeme Macrae Burnet