Cassie and Claire Nichols team up on stage at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival to grill some huge literary stars on their reading lives: Irish Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, U.S. bestseller Celeste Ng, and Australia’s Christos Tsoilkas.GUESTSPaul Lynch, internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels  including the 2023 Booker Prize Winner Prophet SongCeleste Ng, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing HeartsChristos Tsiolkas, author of eight novels, including the international bestseller The Slap. His latest is The In-Between BOOKS AND WRITERS MENTIONED Colm Tóibín, worksGustave Flaubert, worksGraham Greene, worksMarcel Proust, worksVirginia Woolf, works E.M. Forster, worksFlannery O'Connor, worksJoseph Conrad, TyphoonPatrick White, worksFyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed; Crime and Punishment; The Brothers KaramazovLeo Tolstoy, Anna KareninaAlexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte CristoVladimir Nabokov, worksRobbie Arnott, LimberlostJohn Steinbeck, The BreakfastSaul Bellow, HerzogToni Morrison, The Bluest EyeWilliam Faulkner, worksCharles Dickens, worksWilliam Shakespeare, worksMarguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of HadrianStendahl, The Red and the BlackHannah Kent, DevotionPeter Polites, God Forgets About the PoorChristos also mentioned the film criticism of Pauline Kael)CREDITSPresenter, Cassie McCullagh + Claire NicholsProducer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Beth Stewart + David Le MayExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown