The Master

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.

The point.

[upbeat music] The story was chosen by Colm Tóibín, a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, whose books of fiction include the novels The Master and Long Island, and the story collection, The News From Dublin, which was published earlier this year.

Hi, Colm.

Hi, Deborah.

Colm is a celebrated author, essayist, poet and playwright.

He's best known for novels, including The Master, Nora Webster and Brooklyn, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film.

And he isn't stopping just yet.

I'm still working and I've no intention of retiring.