Fiona Kelly McGregor: The Trap + Debra Adelaide: When I Am Sixty-Four + Yann Martel: Son of Nobody (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent and Tom Wright)

This week The Bookshelf revisits the Trojan War from the ground up in Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody, moves through friendship and loss in Debra Adelaide’s When I Am Sixty‑Four, and dives into queer Sydney in the 1940s with Fiona Kelly McGregor’s The Trap.

BOOKS

• Fiona Kelly McGregor, The Trap, Picador
• Debra Adelaide, When I Am Sixty-Four, UQP
• Yann Martel, Son of Nobody, Text

GUESTS

• Tom Wright, theatre writer and adaptor; Artistic Associate, Belvoir Theatre
• Hannah Kent, novelist, scriptwriter and memoirist, whose books include Burial Rites, Devotion and Always Home Always Homesick

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

• Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
• Delia Falconer, works
• Peter Cornell, The Ways of Paradise
• Ingrid Horrocks, All Her Lives: Nine Stories

CREDITS

• Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
• Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
• Sound, Craig Tilmouth and Hamish Camilleri
• Arts editor, Sarah L'Estrange