New Fiction from Melissa Harrison and Malcolm Knox + Mandy Sayer's Top 3

Kate and Cassie with regular reviewer Tom Wright discuss new releases including Melissa Harrison’s The Given World and Malcolm Knox’s The Second Child. Plus, novelist and memoirist Mandy Sayer on her Top 3 Australian books ahead of Radio National's Top 100 Australian Books Countdown.

Mandy Sayer's Top 3 Australian Books

Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children (1940)

Robin Dalton, Aunts up the Cross (1965)

David Malouf, Johnno (1975)

Other books mentioned

A.B. Facey, A Fortunate Life

George Johnston, My Brother Jack

Eric C. Rolls, They All Ran Wild

Emily St John Mandel, Exit Party

Colm Toibin, The Bridge

Barbara Kingsolver, Partita