Mystery in new fiction from Ben Okri, Sameer Pandya and Anjet Daanje

The same question is at the heart of three very different international novels on The Bookshelf this week, “What really happened”…To a WWI soldier who has forgotten his name and identity in The Remembered Soldier by Dutch author Anjet Daanje?To a fortune teller for the elite class in Ben Okri’s Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken-hearted?When four high achieving American boys entered a cave, and one emerged terribly hurt, In Sameer Pandya’s Our Beautiful Boys?Keep scrolling for a full list of all books mentioned on this week's program.BOOKSAnjet Daanje, The Remembered Soldier (translated from the Dutch by David McKay), Scribe Ben Okri, Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken-hearted, Apollo Sameer Pandya, Our Beautiful Boys,  Bloomsbury   GUESTS Tom Wright, theatre writer and adapter, and Artistic Associate at Belvoir Street Theatre.Bronwyn Rivers, researcher and novelist whose debut, The Reunion was released this year. She also has a PhD on the 19th century novel.OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDBronwyn Rivers, The ReunionMax Porter, Grief is the Thing With FeathersJoan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging RockBen Okri, The Famished RoadWilliam Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s DreamT. S. Eliot, The Waste LandWilliam Shakespeare, As You Like ItT. S. Eliot, The Hollow MenBen Okri, The Freedom ArtistE. M. Forster, A Passage to IndiaChristos Tsiolkas, The SlapCurzio Malaparte, The SkinOlga Tokarczuk, The Books of JacobVictor Hugo, Les MisérablesHerman Melville, Moby-DickOlga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadKazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the SunIan McEwan, Machines Like MeWilkie Collins, The Woman in WhiteKate Atkinson, Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Jackson Brodie NovelCREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans & Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans & Salome Lines-MorisonSound Engineer, Simon Branthwaite & Tegan NichollsExecutive Producer, Rhiannon Brown