Brooklyn

later we'll hear from actor and writer Zoe Tarrakis with their top three, one of which they read at the age of 15, 10 years ago.

Before that, though, the latest from Irish writer Colm Tabin, the author, of course, of Brooklyn, Long Island, The Master and so many more.

His new one is called The Bridge.

And also a novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar.

And that's Barbara Kingsolver's Partita, published by Faber.

This is ABC Radio National's The Bookshelf with me, Cassie McCullough, and Kate Evans, and today novelist and screenwriter Hannah Kent and theatre writer and dramaturg Tom Wright are our reviewers.

So from Barbara Kingsolver to the latest from Irish novelist and SAS Colm Tobin, whose books, fantastic books, include novels set in his hometown of Enniscorthy, The Blackwater Lightship, Nora Webster, Brooklyn and Long Island, and those that celebrate the lives of his literary idols, The Master, about Henry James, and The Magician, on Thomas Mann.

But he's also written from the perspective of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as well as stories set in Catalonia and elsewhere.

Colm Tóibín, a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others, is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet.

He's published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the novels Brooklyn and The Magician, and the story collections The Empty Family and The News from Dublin.

You can download more than 230 previous episodes of The New Yorker Fiction Podcast, including episodes in which Colm Tóibín discusses work by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Mary Lavin, or subscribe to the podcast for free in Apple Podcasts.

On The Writer's Voice podcast, you can hear short stories from the magazine read by their authors.

was it? No, that's why I'm embarrassed.

Like, what can you do? Oh, it's Brooklyn.

She was reading Brooklyn.

And I got into such a rage that I was going to issue a statement and say, could she stop reading it now? Could she? Could she? Like, I was on my high horse.

You know what I mean? Like, you get on your high horse and you think...