This week The Bookshelf revisits the Trojan War from the ground up in Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody, moves through friendship and loss in Debra Adelaide’s When I Am Sixty‑Four, and dives into queer Sydney in the 1940s with Fiona Kelly McGregor’s The Trap.
BOOKS
- Fiona Kelly McGregor, The Trap, Picador
- Debra Adelaide, When I Am Sixty-Four, UQP
- Yann Martel, Son of Nobody, Text
GUESTS
- Tom Wright, theatre writer and adaptor; Artistic Associate, Belvoir Theatre
- Hannah Kent, novelist, scriptwriter and memoirist, whose books include Burial Rites, Devotion and Always Home Always Homesick
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
- Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
- Delia Falconer, works
- Peter Cornell, The Ways of Paradise
- Ingrid Horrocks, All Her Lives: Nine Stories
CREDITS
- Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
- Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
- Sound, Craig Tilmouth and Hamish Camilleri
- Arts editor, Sarah L'Estrange
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