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Radio 4,31 Aug 2025,28 mins

Melissa Lucashenko

Take Four Books

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Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko joins Take Four Books from the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss her novel, Edenglassie. The three books that inspired the creation of Edenglassie are: Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland (1904), The Bone People by Keri Hulme (1985), and The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (2008). The supporting contributor for this episode is Rodge Glass, a lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, where he also teaches post-colonial literature. Producer: Rachael O’Neill Editor: Gillian Wheelan This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.

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