Ian McEwan's futuristic novel What We Can Know is about rising sea levels and a lost poem. Plus, Randa Abdel-Fattah's response to the crisis in Gaza in her novel Discipline and Vogel Award winner Murray Middleton on the despair of being an artist.<a href="https://www.ianmcewan.com/">Ian McEwan</a> is the British author of over 20 books including Atonement, Saturday, Lessons and his Booker Prize-winner, Amsterdam. His new novel, <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/what-we-can-know-9781787335745">What We Can Know</a> is set a century in the future where a history professor has dedicated his career to examining our era known as the "derangement". McEwan talks about writing a climate change novel and why we're all complicit in this contemporary derangement. He also tells Claire Nichols how he's learnt to be more humble as a writer.<a href="https://randaabdelfattah.com/">Randa Abdel-Fattah</a> is a Palestinian Egyptian author, lawyer and academic who's mostly written books for children and young adults, but <a href="https://www.uqp.com.au/books/discipline">Discipline </a>is her first novel for adults. It follows two Muslim characters living in Australia, as conflict breaks out in Gaza. It's about the agony of watching your family suffer from far away and it's also about the politics of our country and the cost of speaking out.Vogel Award winning author Murray Middleton contemplates the despair of being an artist in his latest collection of short stories, <a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781761263163/">U Want it Darker</a>. Many of the characters are dealing with a sense of failure, which is personal for Murray Middleton whose had his own set backs as an artist.  The Book Thief author, Markus Zusak shares his favourite book of the 21st Century for <a href="https://top100books.abc.net.au/">ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books</a>. VOTE NOW!

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