Kate and Cassie take a look at bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel's latest, Exit Party, an epic that follows a doppelgänger and a man who disappears from a Los Angeles party in 2031, leading to a journey across parallel worlds and fractured timelines. Internationally-bestselling crime writer Michael Robotham is in to discuss The Weight of Angels by John Boyne; and Graham Akhurst, novelist, academic and Director of Indigenous Studies at the University of Technology on Turkish writer Kenan Orhan's Booker Longlisted novel The Renovation; and historian and author Anna Clark is in to share her Top 100 picks.Books featuredEmily St John Mandel, Exit Party, PicadorJohn Boyne, The Weight of Angels, DoubledayKenan Orhan, The Renovation, Hamish HamiltonAnna Clark's Top 100 picksRaimond Gaita, Romulus, My FatherGay'wu Group of Women, Songspirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country through SonglinesBilly Griffiths, Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient AustraliaThe Macquarie Dictionary, first edition published 1981Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day, Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, first edition published in 1984Other books mentionedGabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of SolitudeJames Joyce, UlyssesAlexis Wright, PraiseworthyChina Miéville, The City & the CityClaire G. Coleman, worksCurtis Sittenfeld, RodhamPeter Carey, IllywhackerSteve Toltz, A Fraction of the WholeAlexis Wright, CarpentariaKim Scott, Benang: From the HeartWe want to know what you think of Radio National's book podcasts (The Book Show and The Bookshelf). Help us understand what's working, what's not, and how we can make our book programs even more useful, relevant and unmissable. Please take this quick survey.

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