Lily King

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769 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The Bookshelf · Launching ABC Radio National’s 2026 Top 100 Books countdown at SWF · 22 May 2026 podcast

And I highly, highly recommend it.

I mean, of course, I also just need to make a plug in case I don't get the mic again for The Children's Bach by Alan Garner, I think is just an extraordinary book as well.

Yes.

I mean, it was in the context of a larger talk about

my government and my vile and cruel and deadly administration right now and how I had tried to write a political murder mystery kind of directly speaking to the first Trump administration.

And then instead, I just had to make a huge pivot and write a love story.

And then now we're in the second Trump administration and it does feel like a radical act.

It feels like

To write about love is to write about our best emotions of our humanity and our best selves.

And that's the kind of self that a tyrant wants to destroy.

And I think it's really important to understand that Trump is very laughable, but he is a real tyrant.

Yes, I just read it last summer.

Extraordinary.

I mean, it's just an extraordinary experience, completely immersive.

I honestly feel like I lived it and I didn't read it.

No, it's not.

I'm sorry.

I see the time is running and I just wanted to mention Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

I mean, I feel like we can't.

I can't have a discussion about...

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