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 MENTIONED

Cecil Woodham Smith, Florence Nightingale

Sarah Wynn Williams, Careless People

Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

Athol Fugard, Blood Knot

CREDITS

• Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh
• Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer: Roi Huberman, Tim Jenkins, Micky Grossman
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown