Cassie McCullough

long ago about it was set in India and it was a kind of drug-fuelled, down-and-out weekend, lost weekend, someone heading home to a wedding.

Do you remember that one?

I do remember that one.

It's called Low by Jeet Thail.

Well, clearly it's the emerging Indian bro novel genre.

With drugs.

Time now on the bookshelf to meet today's guests.

Chrissy Neen is with us.

She's a novelist, a poet, a memoirist, and a regular on the bookshelf.

Chrissy, hello.

Hello, how are you?

I'm pretty good, but you've just done back-to-back writers' festivals, Sydney and then Brisbane.

Which one was better?

Well, there have been great reports coming out about the Brisbane Writers' Festival and you were there talking about your latest book.

Now, this is called The Three Burials of Lottie Neen, Travels With My Grandmother's Ashes.

It's a great story.

Give us the elevator version that you've had to give.

It's a fascinating story and one that I know people are really getting absorbed into.

Also with us is storyteller extraordinaire Mike Williams.

Now, he's a documentary maker, a podcaster, and his many stories for the ABC have included an oral history of the big day out, the history of the sausage sizzle, and also a series tracking his desire to be able to do a backflip.