ABC Radio National Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Sloane Crosley (@askanyone) joined the #BigWeekendofBooks to discuss her funny novel, Cult Classic (@BloomsburySyd), where the heroine meets her exes day after day, on the same block. Listen back: https://t.co/l0V4Vqqn3s 🧵

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American author @rebeccamakkai discusses her new novel, I Have Some Questions for You, and the 'true crime industrial complex' with ABC RN's @andy_park for #BigWeekendofBooks https://t.co/MaZkWILx8A

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Well this is a rollicking tale. Listen to @sarahdingle_ chat to best-selling author @DavidGrann about his latest book & incredible true story "The Wager – a tale of shipwreck mutiny and murder". #LateNightLive https://t.co/dFogBaZ6ko

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UN Sec Gen Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash on Sept 18 1961. The crash was suspicious and remains unsolved. Will a new UN report shed any light? @julesmorrow spoke to Hammarskjöld biographer, Roger Lipsey https://t.co/C05KEjYFXD

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Tonight on LNL with @PhillipAdams_1 a study of female and male power. Angela Merkel, a triple political outsider – a woman, a scientist, and an East German, with film-makers @lizziegillett @evaoddgirlout And Angela Saini on her acclaimed book The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

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One of our favourite sessions: novelist/translator/journo @CDurastanti (Strangers I Know, @FitzcarraldoEds @riverheadbooks) grew up with parents who were #deaf but didn't want to learn #signlanguage. On the complexity of telling family stories and #memoir: https://t.co/MmVgRdnWju

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Right now, Elif Batuman (The Idiot, Either/Or) @BananaKarenina is speaking with @SarahKanowski about #consent, writing #trauma & how novels influence us. Tune in to the Radio National #BigWeekendofBooks on your radio, online or on ABC listen https://t.co/um5q9hp5Pt https://t.co/dBNNJbY9NX

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In Trust, @PulitzerPrizes winner Hernan Diaz takes on a taboo topic: money. Hear Diaz discuss his book with ABC RN's @LEstrangeTimes for #BigWeekendofBooks: https://t.co/kbwpMmquTl

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Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley - who recently published her 16th novel, A Dangerous Business - tells ABC RN's @GreenJ how she loves to listen in to other people's conversations... #BigWeekendofBooks (Listen here: https://t.co/rlfPp5uv5i) https://t.co/D9nAujmN9K

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American author @_catherinelacey discusses her latest novel - her fifth - The Biography of X, with Big Ideas host @natashamitchell for #BigWeekendofBooks: https://t.co/DQ49u0XhzZ