Madeleine Gray & Tim Rogers review: Wayne Marshall/Ellena Savage/Lena Dunham/Douglas Stuart

We head by rackety ferry to Scotland in John of John, the latest, quietly devastating novel from Shuggie Bain author Douglas Stuart. Henry Lawson reimagined - brawling poets, strange tunnels, time loops, and a warped tussle between city and bush in Wayne Marshall’s Henry Goes Bush, reviewed by You Am I's Tim Rogers. From there, novelist Madeleine Gray turns her eye to Lena Dunham’s sharp, self‑aware memoir Famesick, before moving to Ellena Savage’s The Ruiners, which shifts between a Melbourne lobster shack and a smoke‑wreathed Greek island.~ OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDNorman Lindsay, Bohemians of the BulletinRuth Park, Playing Beatie BowRoxane Gay, Bad Feminist: EssaysLena Dunham, Not That Kind of GirlJoan Didion, worksEve Babitz, worksEllena Savage, BlueberriesCharles Dickens, worksCharmian Clift, worksGeorge Johnston, worksMichael Winkler, GriefdoggRachel Yoder, NightbitchColum McCann, ApeirogonSteve MinOn, First Name Second NameMuriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieJames Bailey, Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel SparkLee Lai, Cannon~ CREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans and Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Craig Tilmouth and Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown