<p>This week, Cassie McCullagh and Jonathan Green take a look at Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket - a cryptic plunge into paranoia and power, where nothing is quite what it seems. Plus, Olivia Laing’s The Silver Book, a shimmering meditation on the cinema scene in 1970s Italy, and Jeanette Winterson’s One Aladdin Two Lamps, which re-imagines duality and the stories we tell ourselves.</p><p>BOOKS</p><ul><li>Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon (Jonathan Cape) </li><li>The Silver Book by Olivia Laing (Hamish Hamilton) </li><li>One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson (Penguin Random House)</li></ul><p>GUESTS</p><ul><li>Huw Griffiths — Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School in English and Writing at the University of Sydney</li><li>Claire Mabey — Founder of New Zealand’s literary festival Verb Wellington, books editor at The Spinoff, and author of the award-winning middle-grade novel The Raven's Eye Runaways. Its sequel, The Raven’s Eye Rebellion, is due in April next year.</li></ul><p>OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED</p><ul><li>Naomi Arnold, Northbound</li><li>Nadine Huder, Slowing the Sun</li><li>Thomas Mann, Death in Venice</li><li>Seán Hewitt, Open Heaven</li><li>Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy - The Rose Field</li><li>Ruby Tandoh, All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now</li></ul><p>CREDITS</p><ul><li>Presenter, Cassie McCullagh and Jonathan Green</li><li>Producer, Cassie McCullagh and Sarah Corbett</li><li>Sound engineer, Beth Stewart</li><li>Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown </li></ul>