Beejay Silcox
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505 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Beejay Silcox’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the monk, well, he's surrounded by both highlands and politics.
And his story is set three centuries later.
So there's a whole spiritual and uncanny edge to this novel.
It's dark, it's dangerous, it's wild.
And I guess it's part of that genre of novels that we keep encountering here on the bookshelf, which is retelling and reinterpreting of folk tales.
And I guess that's been done if we go back all the way to Angela Carter.
But Greek mythology keeps on being told in contemporary fiction again and again.
Classics from Shakespeare to Austen take on a new perspective.
And...
Look, I'll confess that I started to think, do I really need another fairy tale retold?
Do I really need another retelling of Greek mythology?
But this one did win me over because there's something fresh about it.
And also the writing is quite beautiful.
It leans into the uncanny and
It takes us into these lives with a real darkness to the story that I found, well, both fresh and sort of entered into the politics of these stories in some way that made you think about the bodies and what was at stake with history being retold.
So this one is pretty good, I'd have to say.
It's Sally O'Reilly's Hag Tale and it's published by Scribe.
If you're still not sure what to read next, I love a shortlist as a way to discover works that I've missed.
So congratulations to the shortlisted writers of the New South Wales Literary Awards, which have just been announced this week, across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, script writing and more.
Winners will be announced on the 18th of May for that one.
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