Episode 101: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams | The Saint of Bright Doors

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, your hosts Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, begin by chatting about cardamon knobs, cygnets and the shenanigans of parkour cats. Seriously. The books up for discussion this month are The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan [5:05] and The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera [46:00].

If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:14:10 for final remarks.

Next month, the two books on the slab will be:

• The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
• Slow Horses by Mick Herron

Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!