Jennifer Egan's Goon Squad follow-up

The Book Show

English - April 11, 2022 00:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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Pulitzer-prize winner, Jennifer Egan, is "interested in the ways technology interacts with our psychologies". Her new novel, The Candy House, plays with a deliciously dangerous idea: what if you could externalise your memory?

And two books set in small town Australia: Mandy Beaumont's The Furies and Yumna Kassab's provocatively titled Australiana.