Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
About this episode
This episode explores themes of myth, friendship, and queer history through the works of Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide, and Fiona Kelly McGregor.
This week The Bookshelf revisits the Trojan War from the ground up in Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody, moves through friendship and loss in Debra Adelaide’s When I Am Sixty‑Four, and dives into queer Sydney in the 1940s with Fiona Kelly McGregor’s The Trap. BOOKS Fiona Kelly McGregor, The Trap, Picador Debra Adelaide, When I Am Sixty-Four, UQP Yann Martel, Son of Nobody, Text GUESTS Tom Wright, theatre writer and adaptor; Artistic Associate, Belvoir Theatre Hannah Kent, novelist, scriptwriter and memoirist, whose books include Burial Rites, Devotion and Always Home Always Homesick OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet Delia Falconer, works Peter Cornell, The Ways of Paradise Ingrid Horrocks, All Her Lives: Nine Stories CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound, Craig Tilmouth and Hamish Camilleri Arts editor, Sarah L'Estrange
People in this episode
Hosts: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh
Guests: Tom Wright, Hannah Kent
Topics covered
- Trojan War
- friendship
- loss
- queer Sydney
- mid-century literature
Keywords
- Trojan War
- queer literature
- Sydney
- friendship
- loss
- Yann Martel
- Debra Adelaide
- Fiona Kelly McGregor
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Son of Nobody, When I Am Sixty-Four, The Trap, Tipping the Velvet, All Her Lives: Nine Stories
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