Patrick Carey

But what you realise as you read it is that she's being provocative, but she's being provocative in a really different way.

So I think it adds a kind of nice echo to her earlier work, but takes it in quite a different direction.

Thanks, Kate.

I am, absolutely.

In fact, I plan my meetups with people and appointments near bookshops.

big bookshop so that I can get there 15 minutes early and soothe myself by wandering around.

Although I tend to, I'm not so much a serendipity shopper.

I come with my Goodreads app and a list of books that I'm looking for and I just see what's on the shelf I can find.

So I'm sort of half organised, half whimsical.

Yeah, look, I'm one of the lucky ones.

A lot of my work takes place online and online content, but there are certainly so many casual workers in live art that are really feeling the pinch at the moment.

So, or more than a pinch really, I guess more like a Chinese burn.

But luckily there are lots of organisations out there like the Actors Benevolent Fund and

various other not-for-profits that are trying to bridge the gap between what the government's offering and what COVID is doing to the industry.

Well, look, it took me a little while to settle on what my quarantine reading style was going to be.

Unsurprisingly, and I feel like probably most people could have told me this, I've landed on extremely comfortable, pleasurable reads.

And one book that really fits that bill is a new novel by Lily King.

She's an American writer that some people might know from her historical novel, Euphoria.

The new book's called Writers and Lovers, and it is just a really pleasurable, immersive, intellectual rom-com.

I really loved it.