
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
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
4.5
3030 ratings
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
110 Listeners
1,711 Listeners
893 Listeners
754 Listeners
11 Listeners
142 Listeners
73 Listeners
231 Listeners
335 Listeners
154 Listeners
712 Listeners
18 Listeners
12 Listeners
195 Listeners
112 Listeners
119 Listeners
101 Listeners
21 Listeners
242 Listeners
42 Listeners
1,012 Listeners
66 Listeners
15 Listeners