Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family + Chris Kraus and Graeme Macrae Burnet

Stories of love, friendship, and the ties that bind - with a dash of dirt and darkness in three new works of fiction...Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family, a sharp exploration of friendship, love, and what it means to grow up when life gets messy; Chris Kraus' The Four Spent The Day Together, an autofiction-ish journey through a fractured America; and Graeme Macrae Burnet's Benbecula, where secrets unravel on the windswept shores of the Outer Hebrides. BOOKS Graeme Macrae Burnet, Benbecula, Text Madeleine Gray, Chosen Family, Summit Books Chris Kraus, The Four Spent the Day Together, Scribe GUESTS Nicola Heath, ABC Arts journalist; editor of ABC Online monthly book review column Patrick Carey, writer and content maker who works at Sydney Theatre Company OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Mary McCarthy, The Group Dylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs David Owen Kelly, Host City Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore Andrew Pippos, The Transformations Helen Whybrow, Salt Stones James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life Maggie Mackellar, works Andrew Miller, A Land in Winter Lisa Tuttle, My Death A.S. Byatt, Possession Edmund White, The Married Man Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls, Antonia Gauci and Tim Jenkins Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

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