Michaela Kolofsky

He did.

Okay, so that's Happy Baby.

All right.

That's true.

Well, Craig Silvey, I tried to put you on the couch, but you're putting me on it.

You're making me think a lot about my own reading in the way you've described yours.

Fantastic stuff.

Such influential books and such deep reading of them.

Wonderful.

Thank you so much.

Craig Silvey talking to me recently about the books he's loved and that have made him the writer that he is.

His most recent book is Honeybee.

And that's it for this week's edition of The Bookshelf.

Come back next week for Richard Flanagan's new novel, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams.

I can't wait for that one.

Looking forward to it.

Keep reading and we'll see you then.

But before we get to those books, we've been talking about other books we've read and books that respond in some way or another to the end of the Second World War.

I think I was thinking about the everyday experience of people, both people who fought in the war and then the people who came home when the war finished.

And I guess I should say that when we think about the history we've read or the memoirs we read about war, we think of war as having a kind of a beginning and an end and you realise that war is never really over.