On stage at Melbourne Writers' Festival with Hannah Kent and Beejay Silcox

A live recording from Melbourne Writers' Festival as Hannah Kent and Beejay Silcox sit down with Kate Evans and Jonathan Green to discuss the latest fiction releases they’re enjoying, loving and being challenged by. 

BOOKS- Hannah Kent, Always Home, Always Homesick, Picador- Eimear McBride, The City Changes its Face, Faber- Susan Choi, Flashlight, Jonathan Cape- Edward St Aubyn, Parallel Lines, Jonathan Cape- Caryl Phillips, Another Man in the Street, BloomsburyGUESTSHannah Kent, novelist whose books are Burial Rites, The Good People and Devotion – and whose memoir, Always Home, Always Homesick – has just been published.

Beejay Silcox, critic and writer. Festival director, literary interviewer and one of the inaugural recipients of the Frank Moorhouse Reading Room writing residency

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Eric Puchner, Dream State

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers 

Emily Maguire, Rapture

Mariana Enríquez, A Sunny Place for Shady People

Susan Hampton, Anything Can Happen