The much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami, and plenty more...
Description
What do Kate and Cassie make of Will Self’s Elaine, a portrait of a frustrated fifties housewife, based on his mother's own diaries. Plus, The City and its Uncertain Walls, the much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami with a dreamy library in a parallel universe at its centre; and Rosalia Aguilar Solace’s The Great Library of Tomorrow, another novel set in an alternate world that pays tribute to libraries.
BOOKS
Will Self, Elaine, Grove Press
Haruki Murakami, The City and its Uncertain Walls (translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel), Harvill Secker
Rosalia Aguilar Solace, The Great Library of Tomorrow, Text
GUESTS
Jon Page, long-time bookseller. General Manager, Dymocks, Sydney CBD store
C.S. Pacat, writer whose books include the Dark Rise and Captive Prince series, and the graphic novel Fence series.
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Stephanie Meyers, Twilight seriesSamantha Harvey, OrbitalAsako Yuzuki, ButterGenevieve Cogman, Invisible LibrariesJorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel; Labyrinths Anne Rice, The Vampire ChroniclesChristine Dwyer Hickey, Our London Lives Colum McCann, Apeirogon; Twist
CREDITS
Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullaghProducer: Kate Evans, Sarah CorbettSound engineer: Craig Tilmouth, Beth StewartExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
United States
