Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.ring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Tara June Winch discussing her new novel The Yield.

The Yield is a story of Australia told across three distinct narratives; Albert Gondiwindi is writing a dictionary that he hopes will help revive his language and culture for his family when he dies. August, his granddaughter, is returning to Prosperous House to farewell her grandfather, just as the miners arrive to plunder the land for tin. While through the letters of Reverend Ferdinand Greenleaf we are taken back to the founding of Prosperous House and see exposed the racism and discrimination at the heart of these relations a century earlier.