Cassie McCullagh

Now, next week on The Bookshelf, I'll be talking to Christos Tsiolkos about his book on Patrick White.

Also, dead men's trousers by that bad boy of Scottish literature, Irvine Welsh.

What happened to those lads from Trainspotting?

Bye for now.

And don't forget, this is your home for shelf expression.

I see what you did there, Kate Evans.

And I'm Cassie McCullough, and every week we're joined by eagle-eyed readers dragging their own library bags behind them.

If RN were Hogwarts, we'd be in the Ravenclaw common room right now, Kate.

Or maybe Hufflepuff.

And poet and writer Maria Takalanda joins us to make sense of a novel from Finland, which takes place in a kind of international afterlife where seven women meet just after they've died.

The book is called Oneron and it's by Laura Lindstedt.

Five sisters.

Well, Kate, that explains a lot.

I have none, by the way.

Hi, great to have you along, Tamara.

Except for old Achilles.

He's heel caught up with him in the end.

Okay.

You caught me out there with my Homeric knowledge.

Now, what about you, Maria Takalanda?