Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Homework episode artwork

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Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Homework

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Australian poet, artist, hip hop musician and author, Omar Musa, tells a story of Australia and Borneo, forests and fathers, in his new novel Fierceland.  An American saga of love, war, and complicated families in Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye, and experimental British author Geoff Dyer returns with Homework, a look back on his childhood and coming of age in sixties and seventies England.BOOKS Omar Musa, Fierceland, Penguin Random House Geoff Dyer, Homework: A Memoir, Canongate Patrick Ryan, Buckeye, Bloomsbury GUESTS Andy Griffiths, bestselling children’s author whose works include the Treehouse series, and his latest, You & Me series (You & Me and the Peanut Butter Beast has just been released) Geordie Williamson, literary critic for The Australian, The Saturday Paper, and publisher (Picador/ Pan Macmillan). His latest book is on Alexis Wright, in Black Ink’s Writers on Writers series ANDY GRIFFITH'S TOP 100 LISTKate Grenville, The Secret RiverLech Blaine, Australian GospelRobert Skinner, I'd Rather NotGEORDIE WILLIAMSON'S TOP 100 LISTCormac McCarthy, The RoadAlexis Wright, CarpentariaOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDFrank Moorhouse, Dark PalaceHannah Kent, Burial RitesDaniel Kehlmann, The DirectorCREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans and Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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