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New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale

59 min • 17 juli 2025

Stories of the sea – and a great white whale in Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle; Hungry ghosts and kitchen mishaps in Daria Lavelle's NYC set novel Aftertaste; and the latest Australian crime fiction (of which there is a lot!)

BOOKS

AUSTRALIAN CRIME FICTION:

 Mark Brandi, Eden
Paul Daley, The Leap
Sam Guthrie, The Peak
Angie Faye Martin, Melaleuca
Michael Robotham, White Crow
Tanya Scott, Stillwater
Matthew Spencer, Broke Road

Xiaolu Guo, Call Me Ishmaelle, Chatto & Windus

Daria Lavelle, Aftertaste, Bloomsbury

GUESTS

Mark Dunn, historian whose latest book is The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier

Danielle Bagnato, writer and book critic – whose work appears in The Big Issue

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Alice Oseman, Radio Silence
Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
Douglas Stewart, Young Mungo
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Richard Flanagan, Question 7
V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Catherine Webb, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman; Vanishing World
Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

CREDITS

Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Simon Branthwaite and Roi Huberman
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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