Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs: emotionally true, structurally complex

The Bookshelf

Kate Evans and Jonathan Green with guests Pip Williams and Sarah Bailey read Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs, Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword, Valeria Usala's A Woman in Sardinia and Jean-Baptiste del Amo's The Son of Man. Australian fiction, novels in translation, secrets and violence, cities and regions, queer love and emotional truths, and a hint of fantasy.

BOOKS

Dylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs, Picador

Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword, Del Ray

Valeria Usala, A Woman in Sardinia (trans from the Italian by Katherine Gregor), Text

Jean-Baptiste del Amo, The Son of Man (trans from the French by Frank Wynne), Text

GUESTS

Pip Williams, writer whose novels include The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho [Adelaide studios]

Sarah Bailey, crime writer whose books include The Dark Lake, The Housemate and – her latest, released in February this year – Body of Lies [Melb studios]

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED:

Shubnam Khan, The Djinn Waits 100 Years

Italo Calvino, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller

J P Pomare, Seventeen Years Later

Frederick Backman's Beartown

Arthuriads (an incomplete list)

Thomas Mallory, Le Morte D'Arthur

Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy (The Crystal Cave etc)

T H White's Once and Future King + series

Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon

Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Guy Gavriel Kay, Fionavar Tapestry/ The Darkest Road trilogy

M K Hume's Merlin Emrys trilogy

Victoria Gosling, Bliss and Blunder

Sophie Keetch, Morgan is my Name

CREDITS

• Presenter, Kate Evans + Jonathan Green

• Producer, Kate Evans + James Pattison

• Sound engineer, Roi Huberman + Simon Branthwaite

• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown