Fiction from all over the world, crossing genres, borders and ideas in American crime writer S A Cosby's King of Ashes, a gripping tale of family, smoke, and fire; Irish writer Sean Hewitt’s Open, Heaven, a beautifully woven story about longing, escape and memory; and, first up, The Name of the Sister, the latest from acclaimed Australian literary novelist Gail Jones.

BOOKS

Gail Jones, The Name of the Sister, Text

S A Cosby, King of Ashes, Headline

Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven, Jonathan Cape

GUESTS

Toby Schmitz, actor, playwright and author – whose historical crime novel The Empress Murders has just been released

Steve MinOn, writer whose debut novel First Name Second Name was published in March of this year

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Alan Hollinghurst, works
Diana Preston, A Higher Form of Killing
Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Dahlia de la Cerda, Reservoir Bitches
Garth Jones, Black Pills
Laura Elvery, Nightingale

CREDITS

Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Harvey O'Sullivan
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

New fiction from Gail Jones, S A Cosby and Seán Hewitt