Cassie McCullagh

But also you do think about the way the mind works and you're invited to repeatedly.

And

You know that as the coincidences stack up and as the narrative continues to build and the mystery of Varsha and her past life and the current one that she's living continues to grow, you know there's some kind of twist and you can't figure it out until right at the end.

And he pulls that off very well, I think.

How did you find it, Kate?

You didn't like Tipu?

Yeah, so Tipu is the son of a friend and he's mixed up in the environmental movement, which has an edge of spirituality and

He's been bitten by a king cobra, he claims, which has turned slowly one of his eyes white.

And this is the ghost eye of the title, which gives him a power to see things that are going on that aren't visible to the naked eye, but also belong to the shadow realm underneath the so-called real world.

Yeah, I think just let it flow over you.

Don't let the details defeat you because they'll all return in their own time.

It's called Ghost Eye and it's by Amitav Ghosh.

Time now on the bookshelf to say hello to this week's reviewers.

With us, writer and critic Madeline Gray, whose novels are Green Dot and Chosen Family.

Lovely to see you, Madeline.

And joining us from the road, he's on tour, singer-songwriter and actor, Tim Rogers, frontman of You Am I and The Hard Ons, who also has many other musical apparitions.

Apparitions.

Apparitions.

Yeah, you're on a solo tour at the moment though, Tim.

So there's a bit of resentment there.