{"id":37616,"date":"2025-09-02T01:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37616\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:10:13","slug":"top-100-books-with-colum-mccann-kate-grenville-and-kaliane-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37616\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Books with Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the favourite books from the 21st century of Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Bradley who share their best reads for ABC Radio National&#8217;s Top 100 Books. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Book Show producer Sarah L&#8217;Estrange spoke to three acclaimed authors at Melbourne Writers Festival in the lead up to ABC Radio National&#8217;s Top 100 Books countdown. Go <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/radionational\/countdown\/top100books\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>to vote for your favourite book of the last 25 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/colummccann.com\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colum McCann<\/a> is an Irish author of eight novels including Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon and his latest is <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/au\/twist-9781526656957\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twist <\/a>which is a tale about disconnection in this hyper connected world.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/kategrenville.com.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Grenville<\/a> is the author of over 15 books of fiction and non-fiction, including her Orange Prize winning book The Idea of Perfection, The Secret River and her latest book, <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackincbooks.com.au\/books\/unsettled\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unsettled<\/a>, explores the personal story behind The Secret River.<\/p>\n<p>Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor whose bestselling debut novel <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hachette.com.au\/kaliane-bradley\/the-ministry-of-time-the-romantic-sci-fi-comedic-literary-genre-defying-bestseller\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ministry of Time<\/a> is a time travel novel about immigration, history and romance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel&#8217;s top reads of the 21st century:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Grenville<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU List_unordered__yNZx8\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Mateship With Birds by Carrie Tiffany<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Anything Can Happen, by Susan Hampton<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Olive Cotton, a Life in Photography by Helen Ennis<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Carpentaria by Alexis Wright<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kaliane Bradley<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU List_unordered__yNZx8\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Night Watch by Terry Pratchett<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Landbridge by Y-Dang Troeung<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Grief Is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Colum McCann<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU List_unordered__yNZx8\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Ulysses by James Joyce<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">A Mercy by Toni Morrison<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Anil&#8217;s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Aidiche<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">(and Gilead by Marilynne Robinson)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discover the favourite books from the 21st century of Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Bradley who 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