Michaela Kolofsky

I've heard some people say they wanted more sheep.

They wanted to get on to...

Well, let's move on to the book that Morag and Michaela, you've read for us today.

Now, this is the latest by the Pulitzer Prize winning American author, Marilynne Robinson.

It's called Jack, the last instalment in her Gilead series of novels set in St.

Louis, Missouri.

Let's go there.

So she writes a lot of essays and she's a real intellectual and particularly talking about religion, life in rural America, incredible ideas person.

But she's also famous for some pretty serious novels, including Housekeeping from way back when.

I think it was in the 80s she wrote that one.

That's right.

Right.

Okay.

So yeah, and that was made into a film and, you know, it was sort of international success, that one.

So can you two just explain what this series is?

Well, I've said it's the final, it may well not be the final in the series.

So where do we locate this book, Jack?

Well, thank you very much, both of you, for that fascinating excursion into the world of Marilynne Robinson and her Gilead series of now four novels, that last one called Jack.

Let's hear about a few more books.

Morag, you've been dipping into a lot of poetry lately.