Stories of love, friendship, and the ties that bind - with a dash of dirt and darkness in three new works of fiction...Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family, a sharp exploration of friendship, love, and what it means to grow up when life gets messy; Chris Kraus' The Four Spent The Day Together, an autofiction-ish journey through a fractured America; and Graeme Macrae Burnet's Benbecula, where secrets unravel on the windswept shores of the Outer Hebrides. BOOKS Graeme Macrae Burnet, Benbecula, Text Madeleine Gray, Chosen Family, Summit Books Chris Kraus, The Four Spent the Day Together, Scribe GUESTS Nicola Heath, ABC Arts journalist; editor of ABC Online monthly book review columnPatrick Carey, writer and content maker who works at Sydney Theatre Company OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDMary McCarthy, The GroupDylin Hardcastle, A Language of LimbsDavid Owen Kelly, Host CityCharlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark ShoreAndrew Pippos, The TransformationsHelen Whybrow, Salt Stones James Rebanks, The Shepherd's LifeMaggie Mackellar, worksAndrew Miller, A Land in Winter Lisa Tuttle, My Death A.S. Byatt, Possession  Edmund White, The Married ManMuriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington  CREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans and Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tegan Nicholls, Antonia Gauci and Tim JenkinsArts editor, Rhiannon Brown