Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

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Award-winning Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen talks to Johny Pitts about her latest novel The Wolf Hunt, a suspenseful exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is a clinical psychologist and writer, and discusses the links between her two worlds, as well as what it means to be a parent when you fear that your child may be the perpetrator and not the victim. Sunday Times fiction critic, Peter Kemp, has been writing literary criticism for over forty years and in his latest book, Retroland, he brings much of his immersion to the page. Retroland proposes that since 1970, fiction in English has never been more diverse but also displays a broad continuity - it has been looking to the past to make sense of our present. Peter and Johny discuss what that’s meant for our reading. And writer Christine Mangan, author of The Continental Affair, takes us on a ride as she tells us about her favourite novels set on long train journeys. Book List – Sunday 20 August and Thursday 24 August The Wolf Hunt by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Translated by Sondra Silverston Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Translated by Sondra Silverston Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Translated by Sondra Silverston One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Translated by Sondra Silverston Retroland by Peter Kemp Bleak House by Charles Dickens Middlemarch by George Eliot The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Regeneration by Pat Barker The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker The Ghost Road by Pat Barker King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly The Lady Vanishes by Agatha Christie The 6:41 to Paris, by Jean-Philippe Blondel The Sleeping Car Murders by Sébastien Japriso Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan