Australian bestseller Diana Reid returns with Signs of Damage

Four women’s lives intertwined between Africa and the USA in Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count. Plus, secrets and trauma in the South of France in Australian novelist Diana Reid’s new one, Signs of Damage; and into the Swedish wilderness to observe a group of seven unlikely people in indie musician turned novelist Annika Norlin’s Colony. BOOKS Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count, Fourth Estate Diana Reid, Signs of Damage, Ultimo Press Annika Norlin, Colony, (translated from the Swedish by Alice E. Olsson), Scribe GUESTS Peter Polites, Western Sydney writer whose books include the novels Down the Hume and The Pillars, and the memoir-fiction hybrid, God Forgets About the Poor Stephanie Smee is a translator who works from French into English and whose translations include Hannelore Cayre’s The Godmother, Helene Gaudy’s A World with No Shore and Marie-Helene La Fon’s The Son’s Story OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun; Americana Diana Reid, Love and Virtue; Seeing Other People Fiona McGregor, Chemical Palace; Iris James Parker, Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: Ann Marie Debettencor, Simon Branthwaite Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown