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An illustration of a colourful Tuscan villa and garden forms the book cover for Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer
A white ABC logo is in the top left corner above six vibrantly coloured book spines on a wooden shelf. Text: The Bookshelf.

Program: Andrew Sean Greer, Ilka Tampke and a Lighthouse at the Edge of the World

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From a sun-drenched Tuscan reset with a side of style advice (Andrew Sean Greer's Villa Coco via Michael Robotham), to Ilka Tampke’s How To Love the World, a tender take on parenting and the pull of the bush (guided by Roanna Gonsalves), and throw in a windswept lighthouse on the edge of the world with Michael Pedersen’s Muckle Flugga.

~ OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

  • Charles Bukowski, works
  • Andrew Sean Greer, Less
  • Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt
  • Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame
  • Steve Toltz, works
  • Ilka Tampke, Skin; Songwoman
  • Debra Adelaide,When I Am Sixty-Four
  • David Sedaris, The Land and Its People; Me Talk Pretty One Day
  • Rashida Murphy, Old Ghosts; The Historian's Daughter
  • Olga Ravn, The Wax Child; The Employees

~ CREDITS

  • Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
  • Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
  • Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls and Harvey O'Sullivan
  • Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

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Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer

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