Folk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in Guatemala

Cassie McCullagh is on leave this week, so Kate Evans and guests read Lucy Rose’s The Lamb, Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel, and Rachel Morton’s The Sun was Electric Light (with interview extracts from Lucy Rose on body horror and Cumbrian folk traditions, and from Rachel Morton on her move from poetry to prose). BOOKS Rachel Morton, The Sun was Electric Light, UQP Lucy Rose, The Lamb, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel, Bloomsbury GUESTS Roanna Gonsalves, writer, academic, teacher of creative writing. Her collection of short stories, The Permanent Resident, was published in India and South Asia as, Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney Annie Coulthard has worked in radio and publishing – and is a dedicated reader OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale Philip K. Dick, The Minority Report Franz Kafka, works Michelle de Krester, Questions of Travel; Theory and Practice Christopher Isherwood, works Melanie Cheng, The Burrow Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre Elizabeth Jane Howard, We Are For the Dark Sanya Rushdi, Hospital Jessie Tu, The Honeyeater Fiona McFarlane, Highway 13; The Sun Walks Down Eileen Chong, We Speak of Flowers CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: Simon Branthwaite Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown