Claire Nicholls

Thank you.

This has been the book show produced by Sarah Lestrange.

Today you heard from Maggie O'Farrell about her book Land and Robert Forster on Songwriters on the Run.

And the conversations with your favourite fiction authors, well, they keep on coming.

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Hi, I'm Claire Nicholls and it's hard to believe that it was 25 years ago that we were all reading that book about a boy, a boat and a tiger with Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

That book was a juggernaut.

Jan won the Booker and there was an Ang Lee movie adaptation.

And now Jan is back with another novel about myth and storytelling.

This one is called Son of Nobody.

It retells the Iliad from the perspective of a commoner.

But that's not all.

There is also a whole other story hidden in the footnotes.

I met Jan Martell on Gadigal land for the Sydney Writers Festival.

It's great to have you here, Jan.

You are kind of known as a man of the world.

You've lived and travelled to all sorts of places.