Cassie McCullagh

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I'm Cassie McCullough.

I'm Kate Evans.

And I'm Cassie McCullough and this is where you find out what you're going to read next.

New fiction from around Australia and the world.

Sororicidal sisters who want to kill each other.

That's it.

And also to Foggy London that is changing shape in Gwendolyn Riley's The Palm House.

Our reviewer is musician Tim Rogers.

Amitav Ghosh writes both fiction and non-fiction.

His books include The Great Derangement, Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma, and also the novels The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide and Gun Island.

So we begin in Calcutta in 1969.

And Kate, that first chapter is pretty much perfect.

Well, go on.

Yeah, okay.

But the most exciting thing happens on the next page when three-year-old Varsha, the little daughter of the son of the patriarch Gupta, announces, I want rice and fish.

Give me some fish.

And a moment later, as if to underline the urgency of her demand, she says in Bengali,

And she says the same thing.