Claire Nicholls

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2,363 appearances 20 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2020 last heard 13 Sep

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It wants to walk all the way back to Innisfail in Queensland, back to the place of its birth.

And so in every alternating chapter in this book, we are with this rotting corpse.

And yes, it does continue to rot as the book goes on.

It's the corpse of this Asian Australian man called Stephen Bolin.

And Stephen is compelled to walk and walk and walk all the way home and occasionally attack people and suck the life force out of them.

So, of course, my first question to Steve Minon is why a walking corpse?

And this is where this word Jiangshi comes in, right?

And actually, the character Stephen, he does leave a dying request that his body is escorted back to Innisfail in this way.

Sarah strung up between these two bamboo poles.

Obviously, his surviving family does not agree to do this.

So Stephen's corpse takes matters into his own rotting hands.

But Sarah, I want to know, how did this image of this zombie protagonist walking north through Queensland work for you?

Steve Minon's book is First Name, Second Name.

And we're staying with the dead bodies now on the book show as we move to the shortest book on this year's Miles Franklin shortlist.

It is Josephine Rowe's Little World.

And Sarah, I think this is a stunning book.

Yeah, there are these three separate stories and we only find the connections between them as we read on.

Let's talk about this opening section in the Kimberley in the 1950s because you've talked about a child saint.

I said an almost saint.

What?

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