Michael Mohammed Ahmad: Bugger + Jeanette McCurdy: Half His Age + Nina McConigley: How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent & Tom Wright)

Kate and Cassie read award-winning Australian author Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s bold new novel Bugger, while reviewers Hannah Kent and Tom Wright take on Jennette McCurdy’s provocative new book Half His Age — from the former child actor whose memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died shook readers worldwide — and Nina McConigley’s How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder...does it live up to the name? BOOKS Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Bugger, Hachette Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age, Fourth Estate Nina McConigley, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, Fleet GUESTS Hannah Kent, novelist, screenwriter, and memoirist, whose books include Burial Rites, The Good People, Devotion, and Always Home, Always Homesick Tom Wright, Artistic Associate at Belvoir St.Theatre OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Jim Butcher, Twelve Months: The Dresden Files Sita Walker, In a Common Hour Jonas Jonasson, The Distinctly Competent District Councillor Catherine Newman, Wreck India-Rose Bower, We Call Them Witches Amie Kaufman, Red Star Rebels Yxavel Magno Diňo, The Firefly Crown Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Olga Ravn, The Wax Child Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind Travis Baldree, Brigands and Breadknives Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Micky Grossman and Ann Marie Debettencor Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

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