Cassie McCullough

I'm sure you've got a few other things up your sleeve, Kate Evans.

What else have you got coming our way?

Well, that is great too, Sebastian Foggs.

So many exciting things.

Michaela, you've given us so much to be excited about.

Good on you.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for having me on the program.

through hesitation, still be spread out there forevermore.

I'm Cassie McCullough and this is The Bookshelf on ABC Radio National and on the ABC Listen app and on fine purveyors of podcasts around the world.

Let's turn to crime fiction and me, my shelf and I discussion with the novelist Will Dean.

Now, he's English but he's lived in Sweden for the last decade, somewhere deep in the woods, Kate.

And I remember that we read his book Red Snow about a year or so ago, and that was about this creepy, abandoned licorice factory.

But you tracked him down and you wanted to talk to him about his other reading and the bookshelf that has made him the writer he is.

So let's hear your discussion with Will Dean.

That's Will Dean, the novelist, talking to Kate for the bookshelf.

And his novels in the Tuva series are Dark Pines, Red Snow and Bad Apples.

Well, the tangled web we weave with books, Kate, happens so often on this program.

Okay, well, let's turn now to what it might mean to read when you are a writer, which reminds me of that great series of books by Black Ink, Kate, where Australian writers talk about the other writers that have inspired them.

And I remember talking to Christos Tsiolkos about the influence Patrick White had on him and also Keridwyn Dovey.