So Far Gone: Jess Walter + Good People: Patmeena Sabit + Eradication: Jonathan Miles (REVIEWERS: Tim Rogers and Madeleine Gray)

Join Kate and Cassie as they explore new fiction alongside guests: musician Tim Rogers (You Am I) and novelist Madeleine Gray (Green Dot, Chosen Family). Three American novels, each tackling big ideas in very different ways - from the political absurdity and humour of Jess Walter’s So Far Gone, to the mockumentary-style tensions of Patmeena Sabit’s Good People, to the darkly comic moral maze of Jonathan Miles’ Eradication. BOOKS Jess Walter, So Far Gone, Harper Jonathan Miles, Eradication, Riverrun Patmeena Sabit, Good People, Virago GUESTS Tim Rogers, singer-songwriter and actor. Frontman of You Am I. Madeleine Gray, novelist whose books are Green Dot and Chosen Family OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Larry McMurtry, works Bertie Blackman, Bohemian Negligence Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts Nussaibah Younis, Fundamentally Niamh Campbell, Make Strange Ellena Savage, The Ruiners; Blueberries Alexandra Vasti, Ladies in Hating Katherine Mansfield, works Ian Penman, Three Piece Suite Zadie Smith, The Fraud Charles Dickens, Great Expectations CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Antonia Gauci and Harvey O'Sullivan Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

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