A special episode! Anna chats with USA Today best-selling author Kemper Donovan about his new novel LOOSE LIPS, the second in the Ghostwriter series after the best-selling THE BUSY BODY (see ep 265).

Kemper hosts the All About Agatha podcast and his crime novels bring the Golden Age of murder mysteries into a contemporary setting. LOOSE LIPS finds our ghost-writer on a literary cruise hosted by publishing celebrity Payton Garrett. A mysterious death occurs and the cruise becomes a murder investigation. Described as KNIVES OUT meets high seas intrigue, this is a fun and clever mystery. We loved it!

Kemper recommends:

My Eight Deranged Days on the Gone Girl Cruise by Imogen West-Knights

Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever by Gary Shteyngart

DEATH ON THE NILE by Agatha Christie

THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware

THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER by Stuart Turton

MURDER IN THE SUBMARINE ZONE by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr)

In Our Time podcast

Coming up:

DISAPPOINT ME by Nicola Dinan

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A special episode : Anna chats with author Anthony Nocera.

We discuss Anthony’s brilliant essay WEDNESDAY BANG in the current issue of SPLINTER and his upcoming plays: Log Boy, My Hair is Thinning and Someone Like You.

Anthony’s book recommendations:

NOSTALGIA HAS RUINED MY LIFE by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

THE GUEST by Emma Cline

AN EXCITING AND VIVID INNER LIFE by Paul Dalla Rosa

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Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna, Annie and Amanda reveal our favourite reads of 2024!

Books discussed:

MAGIC PILL by Johann Hari

ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD by Patrick Bringley

THE ALTERNATIVES by Caoilinn Hughes

THIS STRANGE AND EVENTFUL HISTORY by Claire Messud

RAPTURE by Emily Maguire

WOO WOO by Ella Baxter

THE GENTLEMAN FROM PERU by André Aciman

JUICE by Tim Winton (Annie recommends the audiobook)

INTERMEZZO by Sally Rooney

QUESTION 7 by Richard Flanagan

THE WYCH ELM by Tana French

Children’s Pick

LANDOVEL by Emily Rodda

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Coming up: Book recommendations with author Anthony Nocera

A special episode: we chat with Farrin Foster about new literary journal SPLINTER and emerging Australian authors. We talk about authors who are also musicians, autofiction and taking a book of poetry in your bag for waiting times.

Farrin recommends the work of:

Seamus Lonergan –

KT Major

Olivia De Zilva

ROCK FLIGHT by Hasib Hourani

Dom Guerrera

Rapture by Emily Maguire

Coming up: Our Best Books of 2024

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Anna and Annie discuss the 2024 Booker Prize winner ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey.

Our comfort reading recommendations are:

ARGYLLE by Elly Conway

WE SOLVE MURDERS by Richard Osman

LOOSE LIPS by Kemper Donovan

THE SPY COAST by Tess Gerritsen

THE ROM COMMERS by Katherine Center

THE WEDDING FORECAST by Nina Kenwood

WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY by Michiko Aoyama translated by Alison Watts

HAPPY GO LUCKY by David Sedaris

WINTERING by Katherine May

THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME by Olivia Laing

WHAT I ATE IN A YEAR by Stanley Tucci

TRAVELS IN EUROPE by Charles Dickens

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Anna and Annie discuss the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize winner, Parade by Rachel Cusk, and ghostwriters in crime writing.

Our book of the week is JAMES by Percival Everett. This re-telling of Huckleberry Finn has been an instant New York Times best-seller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and National Book award and described as 'genius' (The Atlantic).

Coming up: our comfort reading recommendations.

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Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss AI in publishing.

Our book of the week is ALL FOURS by award-winning author and artist Miranda July. Described as July's 'peri-menopause novel', ALL FOURS tells the story of a woman who escapes married life and creates a space for herself. A finalist for the 2024 National Book Award and instant New York Times bestseller, it's funny, frank and causing a stir amongst book clubs.

We recorded this before the US election but some of the themes will resonate.

Coming up: JAMES by Percival Everett.

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Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss the 2024 Booker Prize Shortlist.

Our book of the week is INTERMEZZO by award-winning author Sally Rooney. Intermezzo is a novel about two brothers who deal with grief, family and relationships. Intimate and poignant, it's been an instant New York Times bestseller, shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Book of the Year and one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year. We discuss Sally Rooney's popularity, the backlash and what it says about women's fiction.

Coming up: ALL FOURS by Miranda July.

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Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz