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The New Torchlight List: Ireland
Jim Flynn and Wallace Chapman discuss modern Irish literature. Jim rates John Banville's "wonderful style", but is less enamoured with John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The sex in Edna… Audio
Literary copyright in the age of the internet
Michael Wolfe tells Lynn Freeman the last decade has changed everything for writers. Audio
The New Torchlight List: Britain
Some of Jim's favourite writers feature in this episode - V.S. Naipaul and Kazuo Ishiguro who, he says, is "perhaps the greatest novelist of our generation. His work is going to make him one of few… Audio
The New Torchlight List: South America
Jim and Wallace discuss South American writers, including the politics and the passion reflected in the great writing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez - recommending the memorable Love in the Time of Cholera… Audio
Conrad Newport: 'Gifted'
Conrad Newport is the director for the Circa Theatre season of 'Gifted': playwright Patrick Evans' work about the strange coexistence of New Zealand authors Frank Sargeson and Janet Frame. Audio
Shards of Hope
Fijian-born Kiwi Nalini Singh has struck gold and hit the New York Times bestsellers list with her dark, futuristic series about psy-changelings called Arrows. Audio