Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever

you listen to podcasts. Hello and welcome this is our bonus Q&A episode of Books of the Year

Terry Hayes is here best-selling author occasional screenwriter and hopefully you heard

our previous episode when he was talking about his brand new book

Which is called the year of the locust and it's a monster. I do actually think it's the kind of book that Kindle was invented for.

So you can actually just put it in your back pocket or something

and it weighs no more than Charles Dickens' great expectations.

Correct.

Question number one for you, Terry.

What is the last book that you really, really enjoyed reading?

Probably Catcher in the Rye, which I re-read. We're not going back that far in history. It got so tough doing locust.

I had to be very, very careful about what I was doing.

You know, you, if you read really, really good books,

new good books, it rather destroys my confidence. I think, oh my God, why do I bother doing this?

So there's a lot of incentive to read really, really bad books because then you say to yourself well they got published I can't

be that useless and that so my time was you know four kids wife moving around the world,

covered, all of those things.

I cannot think of a new book that I read

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