October Book Buzz: Andrew Pippos, Kiran Desai, Olga Ravn & More

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Kate and Cassie are back in the studio, introducing a line-up of October releases that span continents, centuries, and genres, kicking off with an Australian story set in the world of print journalism in Andrew Pippos' The Transformations. Then, we head to India with Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a grand tale shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. And finally, we travel back to 16th-century Denmark, where the spectre of witch trials looms large in Olga Ravn's The Wax Child.

BOOKS

Andrew Pippos, The Transformations — Picador
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Hamish Hamilton
Olga Ravn, The Wax Child — Viking Penguin (Translated from Danish by Martin Aitken)

GUESTS

Scott Stephens — Editor of ABC’s Religion & Ethics online and co-host of The Minefield on Radio National (with Waleed Aly)
Beejay Silcox — Critic and writer

OTHER BOOKS AND WRITERS MENTIONED

George Eliot, Middlemarch
EM Forster, Howard's End
Charles Dickens, works
Ernest Hemingway, works
Leo Tolstoy, works
Fyodor Dostoevsky, works
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate
Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
Jenni Fagan, Hex
Ceridwen Dovey, Only the Astronauts
Chris Flynn, Here be Leviathans
Josephine Rowe, Little World
Angela O'Keefe, Night Blue
Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
Lydia Davis, Into the Weeds
Inger Sigrun Brodey, Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
J.M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimopulos, Speaking in Tongues
J.M. Coetzee, The Pole
Toni Morrison, works
Karl Ove Knausgaard, works
Lydia Davis, Into the Weeds
Joy Williams, works
Lily King, Heart the Lover
Michael Winkler, Grimmish; Grief Dog
Devoney Looser, Wild For Austen
Sofie Laguna, The Underworld
The Rose Field (The Book of Dust: Volume 3), Philip Pullman
Margaret Atwood, Book of Lives
Patti Smith, Bread of Angels
Mick Herron, Clown Town
Claire-Louise Bennett, Big Kiss Bye-Bye
Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures
John Irving, Queen Esther
Catherine Newman, Wreck
Eleanor Elliott Thomas, Do We Deserve This
Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket
Olivia Laing, The Silver Book
Jeanette Winterson, One Aladdin Two Lamps
Madeleine Gray, Chosen Family
Chris Krauss, The Four Spent the Day Together
Graeme Macrae Burnet, Benbecula

CREDITS

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

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