A new fiction title from bestselling author Bruce Pascoe
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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 MENTIONED Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale; Oryx and Crake Jane McGonigal, Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven Claire G. Coleman, Terra Nullius Alexis Wright, Praiseworthy Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things Naomi Alderman, The Power Lisa Taddeo, Three Women David Owen Kelly, Host City Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley Catherine McKinnon, To Sing of War Richard 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
