Stories of the sea – and a great white whale in Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle; Hungry ghosts and kitchen mishaps in Daria Lavelle's NYC set novel Aftertaste; and the latest Australian crime fiction (of which there is a lot!)BOOKS AUSTRALIAN CRIME FICTION: Mark Brandi, Eden Paul Daley, The Leap Sam Guthrie, The Peak Angie Faye Martin, Melaleuca  Michael Robotham, White Crow Tanya Scott, Stillwater Matthew Spencer, Broke Road Xiaolu Guo, Call Me Ishmaelle, Chatto & Windus Daria Lavelle, Aftertaste, Bloomsbury GUESTS Mark Dunn, historian whose latest book is The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier Danielle Bagnato, writer and book critic – whose work appears in The Big Issue OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDLeo Tolstoy, War and PeaceFyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and PunishmentAlice Oseman, Radio SilenceTorrey Peters, Detransition, BabyDouglas Stewart, Young MungoHerman Melville, Moby DickJoseph Conrad, Heart of DarknessRichard Flanagan, Question 7V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueCatherine Webb, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry AugustSayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman; Vanishing WorldCharlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark ShoreCREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans and Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Simon Branthwaite and Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown