Beejay Silcox
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505 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
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Beejay Silcox’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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like the vegetarian Han Gang's book, Marian Engle's book Bear, which has a woman on an island alone with this prowling, hungry, lascivious bear.
It reminded me of Perfume, the Patrick Suskind novel, which is about a different kind of appetite and how it might sort of metastasise.
It had the kind of vaudeville of Angela Carter and
and her short stories, but also Wise Children.
And then I thought about Margaret Atwood's novel, The Edible Woman.
There were all these novels that I really, really loved, and they were all in here and entwined and echoed, and I thought about all of them and I wanted to go and reread all of them and maybe think about, well, what is this book doing that's different?
What did it upend or reveal?
And I wonder if you had the
Well, as a child of the 1980s, of the buttercream 1980s, I do have to put in a pitch for the Australian Women's Weekly birthday cake book because it is, of course, the best book ever written about novelty birthday cakes.
You know, I've got five birthdays coming up in October, many of them for adults, and I will be using that cake book still to bake them beautiful, beautiful things.
So we should definitely hold that book in our hearts and maybe put it on our lists.
More seriously...
I've just finished judging the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, which are now public, so I can finally tell people about all the gorgeous books I read this year.
The shortlist and winner list from that award, I'm just so privileged to have had the chance to sit down and read with other people and have beautiful conversations about.
I'd really urge people to go out and find that list.
The winner is the first co-authored novel to have won the prize in the Prize's history, which is A Piece of Red Cloth.
which is an extraordinary book of Yolngu oral history and Western storytelling merged together to make something that honours deep time and deep storytelling, but is also a parable of our present, about what happens when the fundamental certainties upon which you've built your life
your culture and your life start to fracture and no one can trust each other anymore.
It's a really extraordinary book.
Also on that shortlist is a novel I think has just been underloved this year, which is called Out of the Woods by Gretchen Sherm.
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