# Weird fiction writer China Miéville's surprising collab with Keanu Reeves

An episode of [The Bookshelf](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/499762704), 2 Aug 2024, 54 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/0i/Z/qo.mp3

Bruce Isaacs on weird fiction novelist China Mievelle's The Book of Elsewhere, a genre-bending epic written in collaboration with Hollywood star Keanu Reeves. Plus, guest critic Ailsa Piper on The Echoes by Miles Franklin winning author Evie Wyld...set between London and rural Australia it's part love story, part ghost story, and Kate and Cassie discuss Choice by Booker-shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee, a bleak, powerful and viciously funny novel about a publisher at war with his industry and himself. BOOKS Neel Mukherjee, Choice, Atlantic Books Evie Wyld, The Echoes, Vintage Keanu Reeves & China Miéville, The Book of Elsewhere, Del Rey GUESTS Ailsa Piper, writer and performer whose latest book is For Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying – and Flying Bruce Isaacs, Associate Prof of Film Studies at the University of Sydney; and co-host of the podcast Film Versus Film OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Sarah Winman, Still LifeEdna O'Brien, Girls in Their Married BlissThomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49Alfred Bester, The Stars My DestinationTed Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others CREDITS • Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh • Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett • Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls and Nathan Turnbull • Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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