Yiyun Li's music meditation, Marlon James' Booker-shortlisted epic, Bonnie Garmus' latest

Kate and Cassie discuss Chinese-born American writer Yiyun Li's Music Against the Night, an exquisite exploration of music and time. Plus, with regular guests crime writer Michael Robotham and novelist and university lecturer Roanna Gonsalves, they unpack violence and homophobia in Jamaica in Marlon James' Booker-shortlisted novel The Disappearers; and review Peck & Peck, the latest screwball literary caper from Lessons in Chemistry bestseller Bonnie Garmus.

BOOKS

Yiyun Li, Music Against the Night, Farrar Straus and Giroux

Marlon James, The Disappearers, Hamish Hamilton

Bonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck, Manilla Press

GUESTS

Michael Robotham, crime writer whose latest, and 20th, novel has just been released. It’s called Tell Me Something True

Roanna Gonsalves, writer, university lecturer, and editor of the literary journal Southerly, whose 81st edition has recently been published

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Joyride by Susan Orlean

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison

Black Bag by Luke Kennard