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