On stage at Adelaide Writers' Week with Niall Williams, Charlotte Mendelson and Brian Castro

This edition of the Bookshelf was recorded on stage at Adelaide Writers' Week on Sunday 2 March – with Irish writer Niall Williams (Time of the Child), English writer Charlotte Mendelson (Wife) and all the way from the Adelaide Hills, Australian writer Brian Castro (Chinese Postman). How and when do they do their best reading, what have books meant to them, what are their influences and touchstones? With a surprising swerve or to into the bath and to the funeral of a beloved author. BOOKS MENTIONED Laurence Sterne, works James Joyce, works, Ulysses Samuel Beckett, works P. W. Joyce, English As We Speak It in Ireland Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; Bleak House W.G.Sebald, Rings of Saturn; Austerlitz Thomas Bernhard, works Helen Garner, Diaries; The Children's Bach; Monkey Grip Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls; Memoir Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil Salvatore Satta, The Day of Judgment Samantha Harvey, Orbital Ceridwen Dovey, Only the Astronauts Louise Glück, works Anne Carson, works Jelena Dinic, works Alistair MacLeod, Ireland and Other Stories John McGahern, Amongst Women Percival Everett, James Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall James McBride, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store Patrick Lane, There is a Season Alba de Céspedes, works Elena Ferrante, works

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