A simmering summer in Greece, rare snails, dystopia with a twist: new fiction by Amy Taylor, Leif Enger and Maria Reva
Update: 2025-08-21
Description
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
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