Art, apocalypse and country people

Dave Eggers explores the messy intersection of art, friendship and growing up in Contrapposto, while Daniel Mason's Country People follows an academic family into a Vermont landscape full of stories and believers in worlds beneath the earth. Then Maria Takolander's The End of Romance imagines life after collapse.

Joining Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are our regular reviewers, novelist Madeleine Gray and musician Tim Rogers.

Plus, playwright and novelist George Kemp shares three favourite Australian books ahead of the ABC's Top 100 Australian Books countdown.

Books discussed

Contrapposto - Dave Eggers

Country People - Daniel Mason

The End of Romance - Maria Takolander

Cloudstreet - Tim Winton

The Sun Walks Down - Fiona McFarlane

Cold Enough for Snow - Jessica Au

Guest recommendations

Dream Girls - Hannah Goldstein