New Fiction: Donal Ryan, Emma Cline, Max Easton and Sebastian Barry

We step into Irish bestseller Donal Ryan's world in Where Are the Kings, a tender coming of age story about a boy navigating grief. Inside a fracturing mind in Emma Cline’s Booker Longlisted novel Switzy, read with novelist Madeleine Gray. A chronicle of DIY activism, collectives and autonomous living in Sydney's west in Australian writer Max Easton’s Now, Autonomy, read for us by singer-songwriter Tim Rogers, and a newer world emerges in the wake of the American Civil War in Sebastian Barry’s new novel, The Newer World, read by author Hannah Kent.

BOOKS FEATURED

Donal Ryan, Where Are the Kings, Doubleday

Emma Cline, Switzy, Chatto & Windus

Max Easton, Now, Autonomy, Giramondo

Sebastian Barry, The Newer World, Faber

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

Meg Howrey, Body Language

Colum McCann, Apeirogon

Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

Abigal Ulman, Hot Little Hands