Sean Michaels and Anna Smaill at Edinburgh International Book Festival
Born in Stirling, Montreal鈥檚 Sean Michaels won the Giller Prize (Canada鈥檚 Man Booker) for Us Conductors, a novel about electricity that tells the true story of Russian inventor and spy, Lev Termen. New Zealand鈥檚 Anna Smaill has penned The Chimes, set in a future London where music has replaced written words and memory is forbidden. Two debut novelists to keep an eye on.
Recorded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 22 August 2015.
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