Ellena Savage joins Mel in the studio to discuss her debut novel: The Ruiners. Drawing inspiration from nights at The Tote all the way to Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, The Ruiners takes place in a world of magic-realism, cockney-accents, and talking lobsters. Confronting harsh truths with a cast of bratty, disaffected young adults, Ellena Savage's new novel takes readers from Melbourne to Greece in the face of a global-waste crisis.

The Ruiners is out now in all good bookshops.