Pettina Gappah’s heartbreaking and sometimes horrifying fictional memoir of a small black child sold to an older white man – and then charged with his murder.
Another fabulous thriller from L. A Larkin, this time with a brand new female protagonist – Olivia Woolf- Investigative journalist criss-crossing the globe from Antarctica to Nevada on the trail of a discovery with catastrophic implications for the planet.
Mark Tedeschi hears many tragic but also fascinating stories in his other life as a top Queen’s Counsel.
It’s not surprising he writes books based on real cases – here he reads from ‘Kidnapped’ and then talks about this terrible but true crime from Australia’s past.