Fairytales are at play in Julia Phillips' Bear

The Bookshelf

The band is back together! Join Cassie and Kate as they head to an island off North America in Julia Phillips’ Bear, plus two Australian novels – Jessie Tu’s The Honeyeater and Finegan Kruckemeyer’s The End and Everything Before It.

BOOKS

Julia Phillips, Bear, Scribe

Jessie Tu, The Honeyeater, Allen & Unwin

Finegan Kruckemeyer, The End and Everything Before It, Text

GUESTS

Tom Wright, theatre writer and literary adaptor; Artistic Associate at Belvoir Theatre

Nicole Abadee, books writer for the Good Weekend, interviewer at festivals, and Board Member, Indigenous Literacy Foundation

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDJulia Phillips, Disappearing EarthJessie Tu, A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous ThingBen Okri, The Freedom ArtistRobbie Arnott, Limberlost; The Rain HeronWillem Frederik Hermans, Beyond Sleep Catherine Newman, Sandwich; We All Want Impossible ThingsClare Lombardo, Same as it Ever Was

​CREDITS

• Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh
• Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton + Beth Stewart
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown