Cassie McCullagh

You're listening to The Bookshelf on ABCRN online, or maybe you're listening via the ABC Listen app.

I'm Cassie McCullough, and Susan Johnson and I are going to step back for a moment because Kate Evans and Maraja Shaw have read the book that we're going to talk about next, which is called Axiomatic by Maria Tamarkin.

So I'm kind of just wondering, I mean, this is straight up journalism that you're talking about, is it?

I mean, like you mentioned earlier, characters like Vera, are they actual names?

I mean, how much of this is narrative nonfiction and how much of it is otherwise?

On the bookshelf today, our guests are Mireille Dushaw and Susan Johnson.

Time to ask you both what you've been reading lately.

Let's start with you, Susan.

What about you, Marasia Shaw?

What have you been reading?

Jag.

Every week, Kate very diligently and studiously puts every book that has been mentioned on this program on our program page.

So if you want to catch up with the things that have been recommended in the last five minutes, and there's been quite a few, that's where to head.

Thank you very much to Maree Dushaw and Susan Johnson for being our guests today, both novelists and clearly both very deep readers.

This is The Bookshelf on RN and also on ABC Listen.

And all this week, right across the network, we've been recognising and celebrating NAIDOC Week.

She was one of those people who was before her time.

You know, it's just the little things, you know, the impact that she had on me as a child.

It was like I had two mums.

And now his latest novel, Taboo, has been shortlisted for that same award.