Lionel Shriver’s novels include Big Brother, the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the Orange Prize-winning international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her latest novel is The Mandibles, published in June this year. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. Lionel lives in London and Brooklyn.

Paul Barclay is a Walkley Award winning journalist and broadcaster with an appetite for ideas and in-depth analysis and discussion. Paul has produced countless stories over more than twenty years for an array of programs on virtually all ABC radio networks. He is currently the host of Big Ideas on ABC RN.