Zan Rowe and Madeleine Gray review: Chris Ames/Fiona Mozley/Niamh Campbell

Cassie McCullagh is joined by Jonathan Green this time, for a wide-ranging hour of new fiction, from Australia and beyond. First, Fiona Mozley’s unsettling Awake Awake, where a young woman begins to suspect her grandfather may have killed Adolf Hitler, Zan Rowe weighs in. Then, Irish writer Niamh Campbell’s Make Strange, a quietly eerie novel about a four-year-old asking impossible questions, including whether she’s lived before...Madeleine Gray gives her verdict. And we begin with a striking new Australian voice in the short story collection I Made This Just For You by Chris Ames.

~ OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

• Elmet; Hot Stew, by Fiona Mozley
• What We Can Know, by Ian McEwan
• The Ruiners, by Ellena Savage
• The Shepherd's Life; A Place of Tides, by James Rebanks
• The Animators; Returns and Exchanges, by Kayla Rae Whitaker
• Fruit Fly, by Josh Silver
• Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang
• A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
• Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart

~ CREDITS

• Presenter, Cassie McCullagh and Jonathan Green
• Producer, Cassie McCullagh and Sarah Corbett
• Sound, Antonia Gauci and Ann Marie Debettencor
• Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown