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

The Bookshelf

The Bookshelf explores 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