On stage at Adelaide Writers' Week with Niall Williams, Charlotte Mendelson and Brian Castro

This edition of the Bookshelf was recorded on stage at Adelaide Writers' Week on Sunday 2 March – with Irish writer Niall Williams (Time of the Child), English writer Charlotte Mendelson (Wife) and all the way from the Adelaide Hills, Australian writer Brian Castro (Chinese Postman). How and when do they do their best reading, what have books meant to them, what are their influences and touchstones? With a surprising swerve or to into the bath and to the funeral of a beloved author.BOOKS MENTIONEDLaurence Sterne, worksJames Joyce, works, UlyssesSamuel Beckett, worksP. W. Joyce, English As We Speak It in IrelandCharles Dickens, Great Expectations; Bleak HouseW.G.Sebald, Rings of Saturn; AusterlitzThomas Bernhard, worksHelen Garner, Diaries; The Children's Bach; Monkey Grip  Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls; MemoirHermann Broch, The Death of VirgilSalvatore Satta, The Day of JudgmentSamantha Harvey, Orbital  Ceridwen Dovey, Only the AstronautsLouise Glück, worksAnne Carson, worksJelena Dinic, worksAlistair MacLeod, Ireland and Other StoriesJohn McGahern, Amongst WomenPercival Everett, JamesHilary Mantel, Wolf Hall  James McBride, The Heaven and Earth Grocery StorePatrick Lane, There is a SeasonAlba de Céspedes, worksElena Ferrante, works