A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America

A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America in Morgan Talty’s Fire Exit; rusted robots, prosthetic limbs, AI and noisy families in Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author; and coercive control and walking on eggshells in Irish writer Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting; and a brief foray into the world of ‘romantasy’ and the international bestseller Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. BOOKS Morgan Talty, Fire Exit, Scribe Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm [Book three in the Fourth Wing/Empyrean series], Piatkus Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author, Gollancz Roisín O’Donnell, Nesting, Scribner GUESTS Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sydney; and co-host of the podcast Film Versus Film Sarah Gilbert, journalist, Executive Producer, Impact Studios, University of Technology, Sydney. Her latest book is Unconventional Women: The Story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia. She is currently writing a biblio-memoir set in Buenos Aires, and has a podcast coming with Sydney Review of Books called Fully Lit OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Nikki May, Wahala Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles Elsa Morante, Lies and Sorcery Elene Ferrante, works CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, John Jacobs and Harvey O'Sullivan Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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