# A new fiction title from bestselling author Bruce Pascoe

An episode of [The Bookshelf](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/499762704), 21 Jun 2024, 54 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/01/v1/Z/vb.mp3

Kate Evans returns with guest reviewers to discuss Bruce Pascoe’s Imperial Harvest, an epic of brutality and imperialism; along with Jenny Ackland’s Hurdy Gurdy, a circus saga set in a near-future Australia; and Miranda July’s All Fours, which looks at one woman's quest for a very unique kind of freedom. BOOKS Bruce Pascoe, Imperial Harvest, Melbourne Books Jenny Ackland, Hurdy Gurdy, Allen & Unwin Miranda July, All Fours, Canongate GUESTS Beejay Silcox, writer, critic and literary judge. Artistic Director, Canberra Writers Festival; chair of the Stella Prize 2024 Kate Mildenhall, writer whose latest novel is The Hummingbird Effect OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDMargaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale; Oryx and CrakeJane McGonigal, Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything Emily St John Mandel, Station ElevenClaire G. Coleman, Terra NulliusAlexis Wright, PraiseworthyCharlotte Wood, The Natural Way of ThingsNaomi Alderman, The PowerLisa Taddeo, Three WomenDavid Owen Kelly, Host CityScott Alexander Howard, The Other ValleyCatherine McKinnon, To Sing of WarRichard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North Sharlene Allsopp, The Great Undoing CREDITS • Presenter, Kate Evans • Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett • Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton + Beth Stewart • Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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