This week, Jack is joined by debut novelist Khashayar J. Khabushani.

Khashayar's hotly anticipated first novel, I Will Greet the Sun Again, is a beautiful novel about family, queer adolescence, and the multifaceted nature of identity and while it is a story unafraid to face difficult subject matter, just like the poem from which it takes its title, it is ultimately a novel filled with love.

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(0:27) Introduction
(6:10) Being your own protagonist
(9:37) Khashayar's early reads
(23:42) Recent Reads
(31:30) Khashayar's most impactful book
(39:27) I Will Greet the Sun Again

The podcast is produced and presented by Jack Wrighton and the team at Mostly Books. It is edited by Story Ninety-Four. Find us on Twitter @mostlyreading & Instagram @mostlybooks_shop.

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Jack Wrighton is a bookseller and social media manager at Mostly Books. His hobbies include photography and buying books at a quicker rate than he can read them.
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I Will Greet the Sun Again is published in the UK by Viking

Books mentioned in this episode include:
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh - ISBN: 9781784701468
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing - ISBN: 9780007498772
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan - ISBN: 9780099272779
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff - ISBN: 9780099592532
Middlemarch by George Elliot - ISBN: 9780141439549

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This week, Jack is joined by novelist Rowan Hisayo Buchanan. Rowan's first novel was 2017's Harmless Like You, which won a Betty Trask and Authors Club First Novel Award. Since then, she has penned Starling Days, and now this year she has released her third novel, The Sleep Watcher, an exquisite exploration of adolescence, family, and the complexity of love.

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(0:27) Introduction
(3:37) Roman's childhood reads
(17:30) Ghosts and breaking boundaries
(20:39) Where to start writing
(35:11) Rowan's favourite book
(43:43) The Sleep Watcher

The podcast is produced and presented by Jack Wrighton and the team at Mostly Books. It is edited by Story Ninety-Four. Find us on Twitter @mostlyreading & Instagram @mostlybooks_shop.

Meet the host:
Jack Wrighton is a bookseller and social media manager at Mostly Books. His hobbies include photography and buying books at a quicker rate than he can read them.
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The Sleep Watcher is published in the UK by Sceptre

Books mentioned in this episode include:
Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - ISBN: 9780141191447
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi - ISBN: 9781568363912
Reverse Engineering by Scratch Books - ISBN: 9781739830106

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This week, Jack is joined by the legendary international literary agent, Barbara J. Zitwer. Barbara has been at the forefront of bringing some of the most exciting voices from Korea over to the Anglosphere, from Han Kang, the author of The Vegetarian, to the Man Asian Booker Prize winner, Shin Kyung-sook, to name a few.

Now she has released her own book, The Korean Book of Happiness, sharing with us the knowledge she has gained from her years working closely with Korean writers.

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(0:27) Introduction
(8:01) Translated texts
(21:41) The Korean Book of Happiness
(26:59) Why Korea?
(31:14) Recipes in the book

The podcast is produced and presented by Jack Wrighton and the team at Mostly Books. It is edited by Story Ninety-Four. Find us on Twitter @mostlyreading & Instagram @mostlybooks_shop.

Meet the host:
Jack Wrighton is a bookseller and social media manager at Mostly Books. His hobbies include photography and buying books at a quicker rate than he can read them.
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The Korean Book of Happiness is published in the UK by Short Books Ltd

Books mentioned in this episode include:
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin - ISBN: 9781681772370
Walking Practice by Dolki Min - ISBN: 9780063258617
The Vegetarian by Han Kang - ISBN: 9781846276033

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