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 Patrick White, The Tree of Man Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love Elizabeth Jolley, The Well We want to know what you think of Radio National's book podcasts (The Book Show and The Bookshelf). Help us understand what's working, what's not, and how we can make our book programs even more useful, relevant and unmissable. Please take this quick survey.