Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery

Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery; 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s We Do Not Part explores massacres on Jeju Island during (and after) the Korean War, stories actively repressed by both the South Korean and American governments; and Australian novelist Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore takes us to a fictional island between Tasmania and Antarctica, inhabited only by a man and his three children.BOOKSColum McCann, Twist, Bloomsbury Han Kang, We Do Not Part (translated from Korean by e. yaewon & Page Aniyah Morris), Hamish Hamilton Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore, Penguin Random House GUESTSBeejay Silcox, critic, essayist and regular onstage interviewer of writers. Until last week – Director of the Canberra Writers FestivalBernadette Brennan, literary scholar and judge, whose books include literary biographies of Australian Helen Garner and Gillian MearsOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDJoseph Conrad, Heart of DarknessSusannah Clarke, PiranesiSarah Manguso, LiarsAlba de Céspedes, No Turning BackCREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans + Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John JacobsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown