Cassie McCullough

So that kind of gripping chase feeling to it.

They can be your greatest assets, though.

Yes, absolutely.

In dire circumstances.

Okay, now I don't want to ask too many more questions because I don't want any spoilers.

I think I know enough now to want to be reading this, but I don't want to know any much more because I'll...

I want to keep a bit of it as a surprise.

But what's the title about?

Thank you for that.

Before we depart ways, can you also tell us what you're reading?

We've heard a little of some of the things that have caught your eye over recent times, but what are you reading right now?

But what I'm about to read... Which is the book by the journalist Jess Hill on domestic violence.

And Mireille Duchamp, who, of course, is the author of The World Without Us from a few years back, and she's just won the Pascal Prize for writing about criticism, actually.

That's right.

A great reviewer as well.

Yes, absolutely.

Gosh, yeah, thanks for squeezing us in between all of your high-level activities.

I feel exhausted just hearing about them.

Yes, may it quickly pass.

Now it's time for an edition of the segment that Kate let me call Me, My Shelf and I, formerly known as The Bookshelf That Made Me.