The Bookshelf continues to explore new fiction, beginning in this episode with Ruins by Amy Taylor, a plunge into holiday chaos during a simmering summer in Greece. Maria Reva’s Endling takes us to Ukraine, where an eccentric scientist is breeding rare snails. And, Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse...dystopia with a twist.

BOOKS

Amy Taylor, Ruins, Allen & Unwin

Maria Reva, Endling, Virago

Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse, Grove Press

GUESTS

Mark Mordue, music writer, journalist, and poet – whose books include Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave

Robert Goodman, critic who writes regularly for the Newtown Review of Books and on his website, Pile by the Bed

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Louise Erdrich, works
Lanny, Max Porter
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka
By Night in Chile; 2666, Roberto Bolaño
Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey
Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
Chronicles, Bob Dylan
Just Kids, Patti Smith
Road Series, Hugo Race
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, Will Hermes
Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
Babel; Yellowface; Katabasis, R.F. Kuang
The Animals in That Country, Laura Jean McKay
The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation, Charlotte Beradt
The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas
Salvage, Jennifer Mills
Juice, Tim Winton
Arborescence; Hovering, Rhett Davis
Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky

CREDITS

Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, John Jacobs and Tegan Nicholls
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

A simmering summer in Greece, rare snails, dystopia with a twist: new fiction by Amy Taylor, Leif Enger and Maria Reva