This week The Bookshelf revisits the Trojan War from the ground up in Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody, moves through friendship and loss in Debra Adelaide’s When I Am Sixty‑Four, and dives into queer Sydney in the 1940s with Fiona Kelly McGregor’s The Trap. BOOKSFiona Kelly McGregor, The Trap, PicadorDebra Adelaide, When I Am Sixty-Four, UQPYann Martel, Son of Nobody, TextGUESTSTom Wright, theatre writer and adaptor; Artistic Associate, Belvoir TheatreHannah Kent, novelist, scriptwriter and memoirist, whose books include Burial Rites, Devotion and Always Home Always HomesickOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDSarah Waters, Tipping the VelvetDelia Falconer, worksPeter Cornell, The Ways of Paradise Ingrid Horrocks, All Her Lives: Nine StoriesCREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans and Sarah CorbettSound, Craig Tilmouth and Hamish CamilleriArts editor, Sarah L'Estrange