Michaela Kolofsky

Well, describe his work for people who aren't familiar with it.

Very special.

I can't wait to read it.

You're also a big non-fiction reader, like many of us actually, Morag.

What else are you, what's on your reading pile in that department?

Yeah, great to have you along.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

Morag Fraser is a writer, a former editor of Eureka Street magazine, and she's also a former chair of the board of the Australian Book Review and the Melbourne Writers' Festival.

And she's currently writing, as we just heard, a biography of the Australian poet Peter Porter.

Now, Michaela Kolofsky, I recently had a chance to catch up with Craig Silvey, who is the author of Jasper Jones, one of the most loved books in recent decades in Australia, but also now Honey Bee, the long-awaited next novel from him.

And I asked him about the books that have meant something to him over his life.

So here it is, A Me, My Shelf and I with Craig Silvey.

Craig Sylvie, welcome to Me, My Shelf and I. Thank you very much for having me.

Are you ready to submit to the bookshelf psychiatrist couch and reveal the inner workings of your reading mind?

Well, take us into some of the books that have been so important to you, so formative over the years.

Where would you like to start?

It was a wonderfully safe world.

It was one where, I mean, they were loving and kind.

Sometimes there were spats and there were dramatic moments.