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Kate and Cassie discuss Chinese-born American writer Yiyun Li's Music Against the Night, an exquisite exploration of music and time. Plus, with regular guests crime writer Michael Robotham and novelist and university lecturer Roanna Gonsalves, they unpack violence and homophobia in Jamaica in Marlon James' Booker-shortlisted novel The Disappearers; and review Peck & Peck, the latest screwball literary caper from Lessons in Chemistry bestseller Bonnie Garmus.BOOKS Yiyun Li, Music Against the Night, Farrar Straus and GirouxMarlon James, The Disappearers, Hamish HamiltonBonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck, Manilla Press GUESTS Michael Robotham, crime writer whose latest, and 20th, novel has just been released. It’s called Tell Me Something TrueRoanna Gonsalves, writer, university lecturer, and editor of the literary journal Southerly, whose 81st edition has recently been published OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDJoyride by Susan OrleanThe End of Everything by M. John HarrisonBlack Bag by Luke KennardMay We Feed the King by Rebecca PerryThe Things We Never Say by Elizabeth StroutJohn of John by Douglas StuartThe Second Child by Malcolm Knox


