In our literary segment of a three-part Cultural Roundup Series for 2017 (Part One: Film can be found here), Gabriella and Claudette discuss some of their favourite books of the year.

Length: 24 mins, Recorded December 2017

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Notes

• The 2017 Booker Prize
• 1:40 – 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (The book Claudette never finished)
• 1:57 – Autumn by Ali Smith
• 2:00 – Exit West by Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• 2:30 – The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• 3:17 – Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• 4:55 –Tenth of December by George Saunders
• Black Mirror – A sci-fi TV show from the UK
• 6:01 – Winter by Ali Smith
• Pauline Boty, an artist referenced in Autumn by Ali Smith
• Barbara Hepworth, an artist referenced in Winter by Ali Smith
• 10:10 – Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
• 11:10 – Elmet by Fiona Mozley, The History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
• 11:55 – Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
• 15:15 – The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
• 16:14 – The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
• 17:21 – The Artist is Present, performance artwork by Marina Abramović
• 20:27 – True Stories (The 2017 Compendium edition by Text Publishing) by Helen Garner
• 20:48 – “Why She Broke” by Helen Garner, story in The Monthly, June 2017

Upcoming books mentioned:

• Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
• The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
• Manifesto: Power and Women by Mary Beard
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Ulverton by Adam Thorpe (Hilary Mantel cried when this book did not reach the 1992 Booker shortlist)
• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout