The latest best-selling novels from Taylor Jenkins-Reid (Atmosphere) and Fredrik Backman (My Friends) explore 1980s astronauts, ambition and romance; and teenage anguish, friendship and art. Emotive and cinematic, how often is popular fiction written for the screen?

Speaking of the screen, screenwriter Thomas Vowles’ debut novel Our New Gods takes us on a twisted psychological thriller through gay saunas, bush doofs, and the grit of Melbourne’s queer scene.

BOOKS

Thomas Vowles, Our New Gods, UQP
Fredrik Backman, My Friends (Translated from Swedish by Neil Smith), Simon and Schuster
Taylor Jenkins-Reid, Atmosphere, Hutchinson Heinemann

(Keep scrolling to see all other books mentioned on the program)

GUESTS

Tegan Bennett-Daylight, author and teacher of creative writing, whose books include the novels Bombora and What Falls Away; the essay collection, The Details; the short story collection, Six Bedrooms; and the Young Adult novels Royals and (her latest) How to Survive 1985. She’s a Bookshelf regular.

Richard Aedy, longtime Radio National colleague (whose programs included The Money and Life Matters); now producing a podcast for the Productivity Commission: The ProdCast; Also a Bookshelf regular.

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Taylor Jenkins-Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six
Holden Sheppard, King of Dirt
Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
Tegan Bennett-Daylight, Royals
Tegan Bennett-Daylight, How to Survive 1985
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Beartown
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
Percival Everett, James
Samantha Harvey, Orbital
Ceridwen Dovey, Only The Astronauts
Taylor Jenkins-Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins-Reid, Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins-Reid, Carrie Soto is Back: A Novel
Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
Sarah Holland-Batt, The Jaguar
Michelle de Krester, Theory & Practice
Sharleigh Crittenden, The Un-doing (Published in Island magazine #173)
Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry
Ben Lerner, The Topeka School
Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner, 10:04

CREDITS

Presenter, Kate Evans & Cassie McCullagh
Producer, Kate Evans & Salome Lines-Morison
Sound Engineer, John Jacobs & Anne-Marie de Bettencor
Executive Producer, Rhiannon Brown

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