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 <a href="https://electrifiedjournalist.com/author/markmordue/">Mark Mordue</a>, 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, <a href="https://pilebythebed.com/index.php/about/">Pile by the Bed</a>OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED<ul><li>Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro</li><li>The Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal</li><li>On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan</li><li>Louise Erdrich, works</li><li>Lanny, Max Porter</li><li>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka</li><li>By Night in Chile; 2666, Roberto Bolaño</li><li>Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey </li><li>Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie</li><li>Chronicles, Bob Dylan </li><li>Just Kids, Patti Smith </li><li>Road Series, Hugo Race </li><li>Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, Will Hermes </li><li>Perdido Street Station, China Mieville </li><li>Babel; Yellowface; Katabasis, R.F. Kuang</li><li>The Animals in That Country, Laura Jean McKay </li><li>The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation, Charlotte Beradt</li><li>The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas</li><li>Salvage, Jennifer Mills</li><li>Juice, Tim Winton</li><li>Arborescence; Hovering, Rhett Davis</li><li>Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky</li></ul>CREDITS<ul><li>Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh</li><li>Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett</li><li>Sound engineer, John Jacobs and Tegan Nicholls</li><li>Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown</li></ul>

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