Elizabeth Strout returns, Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear and more new fiction
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Episode Elizabeth Strout returns, Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear and more new fiction
This week’s Bookshelf features the latest from Elizabeth Strout, creator of Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton, returning with a stand‑alone novel called The Things We Never Say. We’re also reading an ambitious, genre‑bending novel that moves from 1980s gaming culture to far‑future space travel, and Daniel Kehlmann’s The Director, a German novel in translation that explores film, power and propaganda. Joining us to review are Geordie Williamson - critic, publisher and writer; and Robert Forster - singer‑songwriter, founding member of The Go‑Betweens, memoirist and brand new novelist with Songwriters on the Run.
~ REVIEWERS
• Robert Forster and Geordie Williamson
~ BOOKS
• Daniel Kehlmann, The Director (translated from the German by Ross Benjamin), Riverrun • Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say, Viking Penguin • Portia Elan, Homebound, Chatto & Windus • Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear, Fourth Estate
~ OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
• Daniel Kehlmann, works • Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton • The Boundless Deep, Richard Holmes • Johnno, David Malouf • Keeley Jobe, The Endling • Ana Paula Maia, On Earth as It Is Beneath
~ CREDITS
• Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh • Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett • Sound, Craig Tilmouth and Roi Huberman • Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown
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