Michaela Kolowski

So you're also seeing, as we've touched on, kind of ageing and the reality of our physical form.

This man who's kind of coming to the end of stuff, he can't move around as comfortably and they're both still having that thing that Connolly does so well where it's not that they work on the case, it's how the case works on them.

And I really enjoy that even though there's violence and there's bearing witness and there's some harder stuff in it, they're a ripping read and just his detail is terrific.

I really enjoyed it.

I think there's a lot of great crime fiction around.

Stephen?

I suppose two other works I'd love to mention would be The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky.

It's got this very unusual, I don't want to ruin it if people haven't read it, unusual narrator in some sections of the book.

And it switches beautifully between the past and the present.

I thought it was really lovely.

And also Tony Jordan's The Fragments, which is about a book that's,

Like it's sort of like almost like a catcher in the rye.

There's one book that was written that changed everyone's view of great fiction and then that author just disappeared.

And the idea is that there are fragments left from a fire of the book that they think was her second book.

And it's really this sort of almost this sort of, you know, biblio-thriller of whether those fragments can be pieced together and what really happened to her and whether there was another book.

It's sort of a book about reading and finding lost things that you loved.

Not just about that difficult second novel.

Michaela Kolowski, what are you looking forward to reading next?

I have to admit, maybe like everyone in Australia and now internationally, I am looking forward to the new Trent Dalton.

I loved Boy Swallows Universe.