Rachel Kushner

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Octavia Bright talks to Rachel Kushner, author The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room about her new novel Creation Lake. The novel tells the story of spy-for-hire Sadie Smith who infiltrates an eco activists group in South West France, their leader is the mysterious Bruno Lacombe who is never present but communicates his radical missives by email. Sarah Moss, best known for her novels The Fell, Summerwater, and Ghost Wall, talks about her new creative memoir, My Good Bright Wolf, her story of crisis in midlife and on what led her there. And in the last ever, Book I'd Never Lend, the novelist Adam Thirlwell talks about his treasured teenage copy of Picasso by Gertrude Stein and gets to the heart of why some books can't ever be replaced. Book List – Sunday 22 September Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner Picasso by Gertrude Stein The Future Future by Adam Thirwell Summer Water by Sarah Moss Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss The Fell by Sarah Moss My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder