Cassie McCullough

And Michael Rowbotham, crime writer and much more.

Both internationally recognised multi-award winners.

So many things they've done in their own work.

That's it for this edition of The Book Club.

Next month, we're going, well, we're going musical, Kate.

OK, and we'll be back next week with The Bookshelf, reading Alice Pung's A Hundred Days for starters.

I'm Kate Evans.

I'm Cassie McCullough.

Join us here again next week, same time, same place.

Bye.

Bye.

I don't know what you had for breakfast, Kate, but it certainly sounds interesting based on what you've just told us.

And I'm Casey McCullough, and this is The Bookshelf because, well, you can't read everything.

So Kate does it for us, and I help.

Yeah, every week you get an additional bonus long conversation on the podcast feed with a writer recommending books, old and new, two for the price of one.

While Jasper Gibson's The Octopus Man takes us inside the funny, manic world of a man who hears the voice of an eight-armed god.

Rahul Raina is a writer who lives between Oxford and Delhi.

He teaches English to street children in India in the off-season when he's not being an academic.

His debut novel, How to Kidnap the Rich, combines something of both these worlds, the very poor of India and also the importance of education.

But, Kate, we're the twist.