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