Kate and Cassie read award-winning Australian author Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s bold new novel Bugger, while reviewers Hannah Kent and Tom Wright take on Jennette McCurdy’s provocative new book Half His Age — from the former child actor whose memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died shook readers worldwide — and Nina McConigley’s How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder...does it live up to the name?

BOOKS

Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Bugger, Hachette
Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age, Fourth Estate
Nina McConigley, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, Fleet

GUESTS

Hannah Kent, novelist, screenwriter, and memoirist, whose books include Burial Rites, The Good People, Devotion, and Always Home, Always Homesick
Tom Wright, Artistic Associate at Belvoir St.Theatre

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Jim Butcher, Twelve Months: The Dresden Files
Sita Walker, In a Common Hour
Jonas Jonasson, The Distinctly Competent District Councillor
Catherine Newman, Wreck
India-Rose Bower, We Call Them Witches
Amie Kaufman, Red Star Rebels
Yxavel Magno Diňo, The Firefly Crown
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Olga Ravn, The Wax Child
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Travis Baldree, Brigands and Breadknives
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

CREDITS

Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Micky Grossman and Ann Marie Debettencor
Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

Michael Mohammed Ahmad: Bugger + Jeanette McCurdy: Half His Age + Nina McConigley: How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent & Tom Wright)