Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Book Show · Omar Musa celebrates his 2026 Miles Franklin win for Fierceland · 5 Aug 2026
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And not long after she hears the news of her father's death, she goes to the toilet and she throws up, Omar, but she doesn't throw up the way you and I throw up.
She throws up feathers.
There's a degree of, can I say, magical realism happening in this book?
She's taking a lot of ketamine too.
And of course, you know, the other level of magic here is the forest is a kind of character in the book or a kind of chorus in the book and it speaks in poetry.
Tell me what's going on here.
That is extremely cool.
She's a cellist.
Is that right?
It must be amazing in your house, the level of creativity that exists between the two of you.
There is a beautiful jewel in this story, Fierce Land.
It's an Italian bee known as, I think you say a murina.
Yes.
What is this thing?
Tell us what it is.
It allows for this fantastic chapter where you take us back like a couple of centuries and we follow the path of this bead through history until it finds its way to the Borneo Forest.
And in that scene, we go to 1847.
The maker of the jewel tells us that all art is a haunting.
I love that phrase.
And I was keen to know, Omar, what that means to you.
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