Cassie McCullough

What about you, Rob?

What else are you reading?

What else do you recommend?

I imagine in these times meetings of that support group would take place in, you know, football stadiums right now.

Great books.

Okay, well, look, we've reached the end of another bookshelf.

Thank you so much for being with us, to both of you.

And R.W.R.

Macdonald, Rob to us, has a debut crime novel called The Nancys.

It was published last year and he's currently working on its sequel, which will be out next year.

as well as Sue Miller's Monogamy and, Kate?

Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent.

And in a fortnight's time, here's your homework notice.

It's book club time and the next giant novel that the club is taking on is Eleanor Ferrante's new novel, The Lying Life of Adults.

And we're also putting another book as a pair to it, Kate.

Lampedusa's The Leopard for an older Italian novel.

They're a nice little...

companion pair.

And I'm Cassie McCullough and we're here today with a whole stack of new fiction and Kate, oddly, a lot of dictionaries.

Well, the reason you are arguing that is because today we're going to be talking about Ellie Williams' new novel, The Liar's Dictionary, as well as Pip Williams' The Dictionary of Lost Words.