Cassie and Claire Nichols team up on stage at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival to grill some huge literary stars on their reading lives: Irish Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, U.S. bestseller Celeste Ng, and Australia’s Christos Tsoilkas.

GUESTS

Paul Lynch, internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels including the 2023 Booker Prize Winner Prophet Song
Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts
Christos Tsiolkas, author of eight novels, including the international bestseller The Slap. His latest is The In-Between

BOOKS AND WRITERS MENTIONED

Colm Tóibín, works
Gustave Flaubert, works
Graham Greene, works
Marcel Proust, works
Virginia Woolf, works
E.M. Forster, works
Flannery O'Connor, works
Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
Patrick White, works
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed; Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Vladimir Nabokov, works
Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
John Steinbeck, The Breakfast
Saul Bellow, Herzog
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
William Faulkner, works
Charles Dickens, works
William Shakespeare, works
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
Stendahl, The Red and the Black
Hannah Kent, Devotion
Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor
Christos also mentioned the film criticism of Pauline Kael)

CREDITS

Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Claire Nichols
Producer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Beth Stewart + David Le May
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch joins an all-star panel from SWF