Cassie and Jonathan Green review Safe Haven by 2023 Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran, Table For Two by Amor Towles (author of A Gentleman In Moscow), and Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan of Crazy Rich Asians fame.

BOOKS

Safe Haven, Shankari Chandran (Ultimo Press)

Lies and Weddings, Kevin Kwan (Penguin)

Table for Two, Amor Towles (Penguin)

GUESTS

Jennifer Wong, Chinese-Australian writer and comedian. She’s the presenter of Chopsticks or Fork?, a six-part AACTA-nominated ABC series on Chinese restaurants in regional Australia

Sam Twyford-Moore, writer and cultural historian whose latest book is Castmates: Australian actors in Hollywood and at Home

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDRoald Dahl, worksJohn Cheever, worksO Henry, worksPaul Auster, worksKirstin Chen, CounterfeitGrace D. Li, Portrait of a ThiefGeoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment

CREDITS

Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Jonathan Green
Producer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Isabella Tropiano + Simon Branthwaite
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

A new novel from Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran