Cassie McCullough

But what drew you to Vida's life?

Good one.

Well, it's a great time to be thinking about her and the difference that, well, I mean, let's just face it, how great democracy is, hey?

And also with us is Rahul Gherola, literary studies academic from Murdoch University in Western Australia.

Rahul, so nice to have you with us.

Now, Rahul, your latest books are Homelandings, Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging and Migration, Gender and Home Economics in Rural North India.

But how do you explain your areas of interest for a non-academic audience?

And is that always an academic and abstract idea for you or a personal one?

So the borders changed around you.

And those questions of home and belonging come up explicitly in the book that you've read for us today.

So we might hold that idea for the moment and turn instead to what else you've both been reading to get a sense of you as readers.

So Jacqueline Kent, what else have you been reading recently?

How interesting.

Yeah, what a multifaceted person.

He's a very complex mind, obviously, and not afraid to get involved in the controversies of the day because it wasn't just the WikiLeaks issue, but Edward Snowden, he was wrapped up in that whole event too.

Yeah, interesting.

What about you, Rahul?

What have you been reading lately besides the one that we've asked you to read?

Home Fire is a book that I have raved so many times to Cassie that I think she banned me from talking about it for a while.

Let's turn then to the books that you've read for us.