Michael Mohammed Ahmad: Bugger + Jeanette McCurdy: Half His Age + Nina McConigley: How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent & Tom Wright)

Kate and Cassie read award-winning Australian author Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s bold new novel Bugger, while reviewers Hannah Kent and Tom Wright take on Jennette McCurdy’s provocative new book Half His Age — from the former child actor whose memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died shook readers worldwide — and Nina McConigley’s How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder...does it live up to the name?

BOOKS 

• Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Bugger, Hachette 
• Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age, Fourth Estate 
• Nina McConigley, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, Fleet 

GUESTS 

• Hannah Kent, novelist, screenwriter, and memoirist, whose books include Burial Rites, The Good People, Devotion, and Always Home, Always Homesick 
• Tom Wright, Artistic Associate at Belvoir St.Theatre 

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

• Jim Butcher, Twelve Months: The Dresden Files 
• Sita Walker, In a Common Hour 
• Jonas Jonasson, The Distinctly Competent District Councillor  
• Catherine Newman, Wreck 
• India-Rose Bower, We Call Them Witches 
• Amie Kaufman, Red Star Rebels 
• Yxavel Magno Diňo, The Firefly Crown 
• Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
• Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
• Olga Ravn, The Wax Child 
• Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
• Travis Baldree, Brigands and Breadknives 
• Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

CREDITS

• Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
• Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Micky Grossman and Ann Marie Debettencor
• Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown