Fiction Reads for Summer
b"Episode 27 - Fiction Reads for Summer\\nJoin Katherine and Nisa for the second of our \\u2018Summer\\u2019 episodes.\\nIt has been a great year for fiction lovers, but here are a few of the \\xa0titles that resonated with Katherine and Nisa. \\n'Damascus' by Christos Tsiolkas an historical novel, but with a take on St Paul of the early Christian Church like no other. Visceral, transformative, brutal & beautiful. \\nTo change the pace totally, we review Sally Rooney\\u2019s debut novel, \\xa0'Conversations with Friends' and her second novel, and twitter sensation, 'Normal People'. She brings her signature style, spare prose and insightful psychological acuity to \\xa0the exploration of the lives and loves of that \\xa0most intriguing of generations, the millennials. \\nFinally Ian Mc Ewan\\u2019s 'Machines like Me'?, this is speculative fiction of the top order, \\xa0its themes range from artificial intelligence, what constitutes consciousness and the formal demands of the haiku poem. Darkly humorous, its most compelling theme is \\u201cmoral choice\\u201d\\n Fiction titles discussed include:\\nDamascus by Christos Tsiolkas, Allen & Unwin 2019.\\nMachines Like Me by Ian McEwan, Jonathan Cape/Vintage Publishing 2019.\\nNormal People by Sally Rooney, Faber and Faber 2018.\\nConversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Faber and Faber 2017."