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• A woman falls through the cracks of time in the first of Solvej Balle's seven-novel-series

  One day lived over and over again with humour, despair and self-improvement is what we’re up against in Danish novelist Solvej Balle’s On The Calculation of Volume, a fictional work in seven volumes, the first volume (the one we’re talking about in this episode), has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Plus, The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, the poet and novelist famous for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous; and The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, a portrait of a spiky woman's life expanding through letters.BOOKS Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume l, (translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland), Faber  Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness, Jonathan Cape Virginia Evans, The Correspondent, Michael Joseph GUESTS Sarah Holland-Batt, poet, critic and essayist. Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at QUT. Her latest poetry collection The Jaguar was awarded the Stella Prize in 2023 Hilde Hinton is a writer whose books include the novels The Loudness of Unsaid Things, A Solitary Walk on the Moon and her latest, The Opposite of Lonely OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDAnna Funder, WifedomFiona McFarlane worksMichelle de Kretser, Theory & Practice Bram Stoker, Dracula  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian MoleTayari Jones, An American Marriage Alice Walker, The Colour Purple Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin Annie Burrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge seriesNiall Campbell, The Island in the SoundChris Whittaker, All the Colours of the DarkInga Simpson, WillowmanCREDITSPresenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullaghProducer: Kate Evans, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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• A beach holiday told four ways in Luke Horton's Time Together

  Old friends gather together on the coast in Australian writer Luke Horton’s Time Together, Kate and Cassie take a look. Plus, Jo Harkin’s The Pretender, set during the time of the Tudors' ascent it tells the story of a little-known real-life figure; and Laura Elvery’s Nightingale, a re-imagining of the life of Florence Nightingale.BOOKS Luke Horton, Time Together, Scribe Jo Harkin, The Pretender, Bloomsbury Circus Laura Elvery, Nightingale, UQP GUESTS Jane Caro, social commentator, activist, and writer. She has written thirteen books, including three set in the Tudor period, and two crime novels – The Mother and her latest, Lyrebird Michael Cathcart, historian and broadcaster, and host of Radio National’s Stage Show OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDCecil Woodham Smith, Florence NightingaleSarah Wynn Williams, Careless PeopleEric Hoffer, The True BelieverAthol Fugard, Blood KnotCREDITSPresenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullaghProducer: Kate Evans, Sarah CorbettSound engineer: Roi Huberman, Tim Jenkins, Micky GrossmanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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• James Bradley's Landfall reveals a flooded, baked and dilapidated city

  Cities that are both flooded and on alert for the next storm in James Bradley’s Landfall. The body of a saint, dreamily and weirdly listening to everyone around her in Western Australia, in Josephine Rowe’s Little World. And from Malaysia, Tash Aw's The South, in which a family has left the city to head to a failing orchard, a story of longing, promise, generations, and misunderstandings  BOOKS James Bradley, Landfall, Penguin Josephine Rowe, Little World, Black Inc Tash Aw, The South, Fourth Estate GUESTS Tegan Bennett-Daylight, novelist, teacher, and essayist, whose books include Bombora, What Falls Away, and The Details. Her latest, How to Survive 1985, is a YA novel that will be published in May  Rosa Ellen, producer and presenter with Radio National’s Arts team OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDWilla Cather, worksDavid Szalay, FleshGretchen Shirm, Out of the Woods  Yuko Tsushima, Territory of Light  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kappa Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of HillsCREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans and Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Craig Tilmouth and Isabella TropianoExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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• The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams

  Irish writer Niall Williams with Kate Evans at the 2025 Adelaide Writers Week — with a focus on his Faha novels, History of the Rain, This is Happiness and (his latest) Time of the Child.Williams is also a screenwriter, playwright and travel writer — and his first novel, Four Letters of Love, has just been released as a film.He also appeared onstage at AWW with Kate and Cassie, for a special edition of the Bookshelf on books, reading, and influences, with English writer Charlotte Mendelsohn and Australian writer Brian Castro.

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• A love triangle set against the beauty of Montana in Eric Puchner's Dream State

  Families, secrets, mysteries, war...Kate and Cassie read Eric Puchner’s Dream State, an American saga that spans fifty years and is set against the expansive beauty of Montana; mysterious encounters and marital strife between an actor and an art critic in New York in Katie Kitamura’s Audition, and a World War II story set in an apartment block in Brussels in Alice Austen’s 33 Place Brugmann.BOOKSEric Puchner, Dream State, SceptreKatie Kitamura, Audition, Fern PressAlice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann, BloomsburyGUESTSMark Mordue, music writer, journalist, poet – whose books include Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave. He’s also director of the Addi Road Writers Festival – a community festival in Sydney’s Marrickville – coming up on Saturday 17 MayGretchen Shirm, novelist and literary critic – whose books include Having Cried Wolf, The Crying Room and her latest (published this month), Out of the WoodsOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDJohn Irving, The World According to GarpSvetlana Alexievich, worksT.S. Eliot, GerontionLucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My NameHan Kang, We Do Not PartJames Bradley, LandfallClinton Heylin, Behind the Shades RevisitedPatrick Holland, OblivionBret Easton Ellis, Less than ZeroCREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans + Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John Jacobs + Dylan PrinsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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