Read This: The Cause and Effect of Richard Flanagan

Described by the Washington Post as "one of our greatest living novelists", Richard Flanagan has been writing for more than three decades. His 2013 novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Booker Prize and his essays have been published across Australia and internationally. This week Michael heads to Tasmania to speak with Richard at his home in Hobart about his latest and most personal novel, Question 7.

(This episode was first published in September 2024)

Reading list:

Gould’s Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan, 2001

The Narrow Road to the North, Richard Flanagan, 2013

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan, 2020

Question 7, Richard Flanagan, 2023

The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells, 1898

The World Set Free, H.G. Wells, 1914

Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov, 1951

You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store. Or if you want to listen to them as audiobooks, you can head to the Read This reading room on Apple Books.

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Guest: Richard Flanagan