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