Cassie McCullagh

and run by the QUT Art Museum.

But Cassie, it seems they don't always work out well.

Judith also gave up on book clubs, Cassie, saying, I love the books, but at each meeting, only the usual one or two people spoke, not really giving anyone else a chance.

And believe me, the people who spoke were not necessarily the brightest.

After about six meetings, I excused myself and never went back.

Now I get my book recommendations from your program.

Thank you.

Let's tell her and all the other listeners about this week's books.

Audrey Shulman's Theory of Bastards, reviewed for us by Felicity Castagna.

Margot Lanigan writes for both adults and younger readers, writing speculative and fantasy fiction, both long and short, among other things.

In any case, she's very good at the uncanny and disquieting and the odd sea creature, which will be useful for her today.

Hi, Margot.

Hi there, Kate.

Hello, thanks for having me.

Now, you might have heard us talking about Felicity's latest novel, No More Boats, on the show a few months ago.

It's set during the Tampa crisis in 2001, and it's on the shortlist for the Miles Franklin Award, which will be announced in just a week or so.

Congratulations.

Thank you very much.

What does that mean to you, being on the shortlist?

And she started with a Twitter account, even though she was already a published poet.