Some of My Favourite Books: Trent Dalton, Garry Disher and Heather Rose at Canberra Writers Festival

Trent Dalton (Gravity Let Me Go, Boy Swallows Universe), Heather Rose (A Great Act of Love, Bruny) and Garry Disher (the Peninsula Crimes and Hirsch series) name some of their favourite books, and the titles may delight and surprise you. Hosted by Kate and Cassie as part of this year's Canberra Writers' Festival. TRENT DALTON'S PICKS Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath HEATHER ROSE'S PICKS Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker Virginia Woolf, Orlando Peter Carey, The Fat Man in History; Illywhacker Haruki Murakami, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle William Faulkner, Light in August John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men Toni Morrison, Beloved David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas George Eliot, Middlemarch GARRY DISHER'S PICKS Russell Braddon, The Naked Island Nicolas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea Raymond Carver, works Richard Ford, works Evan Connell, Mrs Bridge Colm Toibin, Brooklyn Alice Munro, works Ron Rash, works Cormac McCarthy, Child of God Helen Garner, The Children's Bach Kingsley Amis, works Claire Keegan, works John Sandford, works Michael Connelly, works Ian Rankin, works OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Stephen King, The Life of Chuck Hannah Kent, Devotion James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Dorothy Dunnett, Lymond Chronicles Richard Stark, Parker series Donald E. Westlake, Dortmunder series Lloyd Jones, Mr Pip

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