Cassie McCullagh

Arts journalist, former RN broadcaster, reader, again, thank you.

Do you want to throw us another book that we should be reading?

Anything you'd recommend for our bookshelf listeners?

And we should also say that the book about your mother's life, Caris, Diary of a Young Girl, Adelaide, 1940 to 1942, edited by your sister, Anne Barson, is published by ETT in print.

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I'm Cassie McCullough here with Kate Evans, ready to meet some more readers.

Associate Professor Claire Monigal from Macquarie University is a medievalist with a particular interest in the history of intellectuals in the Middle Ages, which is why we thought we'd give her some contemporary fiction.

Hi, Claire.

Great to have you along.

Also with us, Professor Helen Groth from the University of New South Wales.

Now, Helen, you're a Victorianist interested in literary modernity and what you call the noise of the novel.

Hi.

Hi, Cassie.

Hi, Kate.

Hi, Helen.

What do you mean by the noise of the novel?

in a nutshell yeah i think that that's something that we're going to have to quiz you on in more detail um helen because that sounds really interesting i just had a hundred questions already me too but claire you're interested in medieval thinkers but i know that you've written about television as well so i wanted to ask you first about a series of books that's just been made into a tv series and that's edward st auburn's patrick melrose novels i think you just read them read them all how do you describe them

And so I'm dazzled by them.

So that incredible contrast of the English aristocracy and this just extremely awful child abuse.