New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale

Stories of the sea – and a great white whale in Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle; Hungry ghosts and kitchen mishaps in Daria Lavelle's NYC set novel Aftertaste; and the latest Australian crime fiction (of which there is a lot!) BOOKS AUSTRALIAN CRIME FICTION: Mark Brandi, Eden Paul Daley, The Leap Sam Guthrie, The Peak Angie Faye Martin, Melaleuca Michael Robotham, White Crow Tanya Scott, Stillwater Matthew Spencer, Broke Road Xiaolu Guo, Call Me Ishmaelle, Chatto & Windus Daria Lavelle, Aftertaste, Bloomsbury GUESTS Mark Dunn, historian whose latest book is The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier Danielle Bagnato, writer and book critic – whose work appears in The Big Issue OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Alice Oseman, Radio Silence Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby Douglas Stewart, Young Mungo Herman Melville, Moby Dick Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Richard Flanagan, Question 7 V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Catherine Webb, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman; Vanishing World Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Simon Branthwaite and Roi Huberman Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown