Art, apocalypse and country people

Dave Eggers explores the messy intersection of art, friendship and growing up in Contrapposto, while Daniel Mason's Country People follows an academic family into a Vermont landscape full of stories, obsessions and believers in worlds beneath the earth. Then Maria Takolander's The End of Romance imagines life after collapse, where survival, motherhood and hope take unexpected forms.Joining Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are our regular reviewers, novelist Madeleine Gray and musician Tim Rogers. Plus, playwright and novelist George Kemp shares three favourite Australian books ahead of the ABC's Top 100 Australian Books countdown.Books discussedContrapposto - Dave EggersCountry People - Daniel MasonThe End of Romance - Maria TakolanderCloudstreet - Tim WintonThe Sun Walks Down - Fiona McFarlaneCold Enough for Snow - Jessica AuGuest recommendationsDream Girls - Hannah GoldsteinBrother of the More Famous Jack - Barbara TrapidoThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel SparkRiverboy - Jim EwingA Suitable Man - Jock SerongFifty Beating Wonders - Dr Michelle JohnstonFlights - Olga Tokarczuk CreditsPresenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans and Sarah CorbettSound, Micky Grossman and Tegan NichollsArts editor, Sarah L' Estrange