A woman falls through the cracks of time in the first of Solvej Balle's seven-novel-series

One day lived over and over again with humour, despair and self-improvement is what we’re up against in Danish novelist Solvej Balle’s On The Calculation of Volume, a fictional work in seven volumes, the first volume (the one we’re talking about in this episode), has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Plus, The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, the poet and novelist famous for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous; and The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, a portrait of a spiky woman's life expanding through letters. BOOKS  Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume l, (translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland), Faber   Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness, Jonathan Cape  Virginia Evans, The Correspondent, Michael Joseph  GUESTS  Sarah Holland-Batt, poet, critic and essayist. Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at QUT. Her latest poetry collection The Jaguar was awarded the Stella Prize in 2023  Hilde Hinton is a writer whose books include the novels The Loudness of Unsaid Things, A Solitary Walk on the Moon and her latest, The Opposite of Lonely  OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Anna Funder, Wifedom Fiona McFarlane works Michelle de Kretser, Theory & Practice  Bram Stoker, Dracula   Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons  Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Tayari Jones, An American Marriage  Alice Walker, The Colour Purple  Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin  Annie Burrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge series Niall Campbell, The Island in the Sound Chris Whittaker, All the Colours of the Dark Inga Simpson, Willowman CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Roi Huberman Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown