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Anna and Annie discuss the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist, including Anna Funder's Wifedom.
Our book of the week is THE VULNERABLES by Sigrid Nunez. This is the third in a loose trilogy after THE FRIEND and WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH. A writer, a college drop-out and a talking parrot share an apartment in New York during the Covid pandemic. This is subtler than the first two books but we loved the mix of story and Nunez's reflections on life and writing.
Coming up: our Crime reading recommendations.
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It's the Shawn and Anna Book Club!
Our first book is Home Reading Service by Fabio Morábito translated by Curtis Bauer. Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading aloud to the elderly and disabled. Set in Mexico, this novel is witty and poignant. It even inspired us to discuss poetry! And the fine line between whacky and eccentric.
Also mentioned:
Shawn's Bite Sized Book Chat with Stu aka Winston's Dad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PubR7KrANvE&t=40s
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai translated by Polly Barton
Book Club Review Podcast
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Anna and Annie reveal our book recommendations for the holiday season.
Our favourite holiday reads this year are:
THE CLUB by Ellery Lloyd
NOW YOU SEE US by Balli Kaur Jaswal
WEST HEART KILL by Dann McDorman
FLIGHT by Lynn Steger Strong
THE LIBRARIANIST by Patrick deWitt
ROMANTIC COMEDY by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Anna and Annie discuss the Booker Prize 2023 winner, PROPHET SONG by Paul Lynch.
We reveal the best books we read in 2023. In no particular order, they are:
Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren translated by Agnes Broomé
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
Girl in a Pink Dress by Kylie Needham
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Loot by Tania James
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Coming up: our Holiday Reading recommendations
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Anna and Annie discuss authors' concerns about Spotify streaming books and highlights from the 2024 Adelaide Writers Week lineup.
Our book of the week is Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren translated by Agnes Broomé. Sandgren has been described as "Sweden's Sally Rooney" (The Times). Collected Works is a thought-provoking, intellectual novel set in Gothenburg. At the heart of it is the mystery of the disappearance of Martin's wife, Cecilia. Anna loved it but Annie would have preferred more Cecilia and less Martin!
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Special guest Shawn Mooney of Shawn the Book Maniac joins Anna for Book Club!
We discuss TRUE BIZ by Sara Nović and Y/N by Esther Yi. These books have taken us down rabbit holes of deaf culture (True Biz) and super fandom (Y/N). Two interesting and thought-provoking reads!
Shawn recommends the interview with Esther Yi on Jaylen's The Bar and the Bookcase podcast.
We're currently reading:
GIBBONS OR ONE BLOODY THING AFTER ANOTHER by James Morrison (and see the book launch on Shawn's channel)
SMALL WORLDS by Caleb Azumah Nelson
LEOPOLDSTADT by Tom Stoppard
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Anna and Annie discuss the 2023 Booker Prize Shortlist and the authors taking action over the generative AI use of their work.
Our book of the week is WIFEDOM: MRS ORWELL'S INVISIBLE LIFE by Anna Funder. An innovative biography of Eileen Orwell by the Miles Franklin and Samuel Johnson prize winner, it has been described as a masterpiece and we think would make a great book club book.
Coming up: Book Club with Shawn Mooney
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Anna and Amanda discuss the Nero Book Awards which will commence in 2024.
Our book of the week is CHAI TIME AT CINNAMON GARDENS by Shankari Chandran. A layered story about a nursing home in Sydney whose residents have traumatic memories of the civil war in Sri Lanka, this won the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Coming up: WIFEDOM by Anna Funder.
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A special episode: Anna chats with Shawn Mooney of Shawn the Book Maniac.
We recommend three books and each choose one to read for our next episode: the Anna and Shawn book club!
Books discussed:
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
True Biz by Sara Nović
Y/N by Esther Yi
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
The Recent East by Thomas Grattan
Coming up: Chai Time in Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
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Anna and Annie discuss a recent study on reading to young children.
We wrap up Women in Translation month. The books we read (or Annie did at least!) and recommend are:
Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich translated by Ayca Turkoglu
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
What You're Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama translated by Alison Watts
Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren translated by Agnes Broomé
My Devotion by Julia Kerninon translated by Alison Anderson
Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq translated by Penny Hueston
Coming up: Chai Time in the Cinnamon Gardens and Wifedom
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Anna and Annie discuss the 2023 Booker Prize Longlist.
Our book of the week is The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor. A novel about friends and lovers set in Iowa City, it is both intimate and explores wider issues in contemporary life and art. Taylor was short-listed for the Booker Prize for Real Life and won the Story Prize for his collection Filthy Animals. The Late Americans is an instant national bestseller and was a Most Anticipated Book of the year by Vogue, Elle, Oprah Daily, the Washington Post, Buzzfeed and Vulture.
Coming up: Chai Time in Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran.
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Anna and Amanda discuss Elizabeth Gilbert pulling her novel The Snow Forest from publication because of its Russia theme.
Our book of the week is This Other Eden by Paul Harding. Based on a true story, an island community of castaways and misfits is disrupted when a well-meaning but racist preacher enters their lives. It has biblical feels yet resonates today. Described as 'a harrowing tale of paradise lost' (New York Times) and 'sure to be a stand-out of 2023' (Los Angeles Times), since we recorded this episode it has been long-listed for the Booker Prize.
Coming up: The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor.
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Anna and Amanda discuss the Women's Prize winner Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.
Our book of the week is The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland. This tells the true story of Rudolf Vrba who escaped from Auschwitz with Fred Wetzler and their attempt to tell Jewish leaders the truth about the Final Solution and prevent more deaths. A Sunday Times Best-Seller and shortlisted for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, we could not put this down.
Coming up: This Other Eden by Paul Harding.
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A special episode: Anna chats with author Ennis Ćehić about his debut collection of short stories, Sadvertising.
Ćehić is based in Melbourne and Sarajevo and writes about displacement, creativity and existentialism. The stories in Sadvertising are set in the advertising world and explore the tension between art and capitalism. Satirical and very funny, with elements of meta-fiction and the surreal. "A work of thrilling, audacious verve and wit ... deserves a standing ovation" (Christos Tsiolkas) and "powerful, inventive and self-assured" (Australian Book Review). We loved this book!
Ennis recommends:
Hunger by Knut Hamsen translated by George Egerton
Authors Rachel Cusk , Deborah Levy and Ottessa Moshfegh
The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer
The Shakespeare and Company podcast
Coming up:
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
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A special episode: Anna chats with author Christine Keighery about her new novel The Half Brother.
Christine Keighery has written over 35 novels for children and young adults (as Chrissie Perry). The Half Brother is her first novel for adults. It's a psychological suspense story about a family, secrets and coercive control. Described as "sinister, suspenseful and tightly written, with an ending I didn't see coming" (Vikki Wakefield). There are no spoilers in this episode so you'll have to read it to see what the twist is!
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Christine: chrissieperry.com
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Anna and Amanda discuss The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard. This novel set in Japan and Hong Kong in 1947 explores the colonial era with a forbidden love story at its centre. Described as "the last masterpiece of a vanished age of civility" (Wall Street Journal) it won the 2003 Miles Franklin Award and the National Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize.
We also recommend Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas.
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A special episode: Anna chats with author Kylie Needham about her debut novel, Girl In A Pink Dress.
Girl in a Pink Dress centres on Frances, an artist in her 40s who is invited to her former lover's exhibition opening in Sydney. A beautiful, spare novel that explores the idea of two artists living together and female rage, against the backdrop of the Australian landscape. Described as "a quiet triumph" (Heather Rose) and "breathtakingly good" (David Wenham), we loved this book.
Kylie recommends:
Can A Woman Who Is An Artist Ever Just Be An Artist? by Rachel Cusk
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
The New Yorker The Writer's Voice Podcast
The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling Podcast
Coming up: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard.
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Anna and Annie discuss the Stella Prize shortlist (belatedly!)
Our book of the week is The New Life by Tom Crewe. A brilliant debut novel about two marriages and sexual freedom in 1890s London, it evokes the time and place beautifully but feels modern and resonates today. It reminded us of Colm Tóibín, with "the spirit of Forster" (Washington Post).
Coming up: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard.
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Anna, Annie and Amanda react to the 2023 Women's Prize Shortlist and give our winner predictions.
And Annie has news!
The shortlist is:
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris Pod by Laline Paull Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks Trespasses by Louise Kennedy The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell Demon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverComing up: The New Life by Tom Crewe and The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard.
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Annie, Anna and Amanda discuss the shortlist for the 2023 Stella Prize and give their winner predictions.
The shortlist is:
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt Hydra by Adriane Howell Indelible City by Louisa Lim Bad Art Mother by Edwina PrestonComing up: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard and our Women's Prize Shortlist episode.
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