Said the Dead, The Thornbacks, and Deborah Levy’s latest

Kate Evans is joined by Bernadette Brennan and Beejay Silcox to talk three striking new releases: Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Said the Dead, a haunting, archive-rich exploration of a derelict Irish asylum; Chloe Wilson’s The Thornbacks, a darkly comic debut of morticians, dating apps and unsettling female entanglements; and Deborah Levy’s My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, a playful meditation on literary life in Paris. 

~ OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

• Amitav Ghosh, Ghost-Eye
• Susan Choi, Flashlight
•  S.A. Cosby, works
• Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
•  Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• Angela Carter, Wise Children
• Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
• Daisy Johnson, Sisters
• Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
• Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister the Serial Killer
• Deborah Levy, works
• Kim Scott, Benang
• Alexis Wright, Carpentaria
• Francesca Wade, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
• Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 
• Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, Bone Horn
• Erin Vincent. Fourteen Ways of Looking
• Claire Thomas, On Not Climbing Mountains
• Gwendoline Riley, The Palm House
• Chloe Wilson, Hold Your Fire
• Robin Robertson, The Long Take
• Joseph Furphy, Such is Life
• Elizabeth Jolley, works

~ CREDITS

• Presenter: Kate Evans
• Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
• Sound: Antonia Gauci
• Arts editor: Rhiannon Brown