Melanie Cheng's The Burrow: can a pet rabbit heal a family dealing with tragedy?
Kate and Cassie read Melanie Cheng’s The Burrow, a pandemic-set novella that details the healing powers of a pet rabbit for a family dealing with tragedy. Plus, Native American writer Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red, a beautifully crafted novel about a love triangle and everyday life in a farming community in North Dakota, and the latest from Yuwaalaraay storyteller Nardi Simpson, The Belburd, a poetic montage of life and death. BOOKS Melanie Cheng, The Burrow, Text Louise Erdrich, The Mighty Red, Corsair Nardi Simpson, The Belburd, Hachette GUESTS Steph Harmon, Culture Editor, The Guardian Tom Wright, theatre writer and adaptor; Associate Director, Belvoir Theatre OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Nardi Simpson, Song of the Crocodile Emeric Pressburger, The Glass Pearls Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor Alan Murrin, The Coast Road Dan Hogan, Secret Third Thing CREDIT Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: Craig Tilmouth, Beth Stewart Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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Kate and Cassie read Melanie Cheng’s The Burrow, a pandemic-set novella that details the healing powers of a pet rabbit for a family dealing with tragedy. Plus, Native American writer Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red, a beautifully crafted novel about a love triangle and everyday life in a farming community in North Dakota, and the latest from Yuwaalaraay storyteller Nardi Simpson, The Belburd, a poetic montage of life and death.
BOOKS
Melanie Cheng, The Burrow, Text
Louise Erdrich, The Mighty Red, Corsair
Nardi Simpson, The Belburd, Hachette
GUESTS
Steph Harmon, Culture Editor, The Guardian
Tom Wright, theatre writer and adaptor; Associate Director, Belvoir Theatre
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDNardi Simpson, Song of the CrocodileEmeric Pressburger, The Glass PearlsClaire Kilroy, Soldier SailorAlan Murrin, The Coast Road Dan Hogan, Secret Third Thing
CREDIT
- Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh
- Producer, Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
- Sound engineer: Craig Tilmouth, Beth Stewart
- Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown