• Bookends with Mattea Roach

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Bookends with Mattea Roach

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  • When the book ends, the conversation begins. Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it. You’ll always walk away with big questions to ponder and new books to read.
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Episodes
  • Alan Hollinghurst: Coming of age in Britain and writing through the gay gaze

    Alan Hollinghurst: Coming of age in Britain and writing through the gay gaze
    Nov 6 2024

    When Alan Hollinghurt's novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004, it was the first time a book about the gay experience won the award. Now his newest novel, Our Evenings, puts a biracial boy who’s discovering queer culture for the first time at the front and centre. Alan and Mattea Roach discuss how growing up gay in Britain inspires his writing.
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    36 mins
  • Fawn Parker: Blending her own grief with fiction in new novel Hi, It’s Me

    Fawn Parker: Blending her own grief with fiction in new novel Hi, It’s Me
    Nov 3 2024

    Fawn Parker's latest book centres on a woman navigating life immediately following the death of her mother. The novel is a finalist for this year’s Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Fawn and Mattea Roach talk about grief, loss and the real-life inspiration behind Hi, It's Me.
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    25 mins
  • Erica McKeen: Using horror and surrealism to explore grief, care and love in new novel Cicada Summer

    Erica McKeen: Using horror and surrealism to explore grief, care and love in new novel Cicada Summer
    Oct 30 2024

    When a trio of characters living in a lakeside cabin in the summer of 2020 begin reading a book of horror stories, the details start to bleed into real life. This is the premise of Erica McKeen's latest novel. Erica talks to Mattea Roach about why she uses horror to explore the mundane and complex aspects of everyday life.
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    26 mins

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