Emily St. John Mandel and John Boyne alongside a Booker-longlisted debut

Kate and Cassie take a look at bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel's latest, Exit Party, an epic that follows a doppelgänger and a man who disappears from a Los Angeles party in 2031, leading to a journey across parallel worlds and fractured timelines. Internationally-bestselling crime writer Michael Robotham is in to discuss The Weight of Angels by John Boyne; and Graham Akhurst, novelist, academic and Director of Indigenous Studies at the University of Technology  on Turkish writer Kenan Orhan's Booker Longlisted novel The Renovation; and historian and author Anna Clark is in to share her Top 100 picks.

Books featured

• Emily St John Mandel, Exit Party, Picador
• John Boyne, The Weight of Angels, Doubleday
• Kenan Orhan, The Renovation, Hamish Hamilton

Anna Clark's Top 100 picks

• Raimond Gaita, Romulus, My Father
• Gay'wu Group of Women, Songspirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country through Songlines
• Billy Griffiths, Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
• The Macquarie Dictionary, first edition published 1981
• Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day, Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, first edition published in 1984

Other books mentioned

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
• James Joyce, Ulysses
• Alexis Wright, PraiseworthyChina Miéville, The City & the City
• Claire G. Coleman, works
• Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham
• Peter Carey, Illywhacker
• Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
• Alexis Wright, Carpentaria
• Kim Scott, Benang: From the Heart

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