Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Homework

Australian poet, artist, hip hop musician and author, Omar Musa, tells a story of Australia and Borneo, forests and fathers, in his new novel Fierceland. An American saga of love, war, and complicated families in Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye, and experimental British author Geoff Dyer returns with Homework, a look back on his childhood and coming of age in sixties and seventies England. BOOKS Omar Musa, Fierceland, Penguin Random House Geoff Dyer, Homework: A Memoir, Canongate Patrick Ryan, Buckeye, Bloomsbury GUESTS Andy Griffiths, bestselling children’s author whose works include the Treehouse series, and his latest, You & Me series (You & Me and the Peanut Butter Beast has just been released) Geordie Williamson, literary critic for The Australian, The Saturday Paper, and publisher (Picador/ Pan Macmillan). His latest book is on Alexis Wright, in Black Ink’s Writers on Writers series ANDY GRIFFITH'S TOP 100 LIST Kate Grenville, The Secret River Lech Blaine, Australian Gospel Robert Skinner, I'd Rather Not GEORDIE WILLIAMSON'S TOP 100 LIST Cormac McCarthy, The Road Alexis Wright, Carpentaria OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Frank Moorhouse, Dark Palace Hannah Kent, Burial Rites Daniel Kehlmann, The Director CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Roi Huberman Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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