A simmering summer in Greece, rare snails, dystopia with a twist: new fiction by Amy Taylor, Leif Enger and Maria Reva

The Bookshelf continues to explore new fiction, beginning in this episode with Ruins by Amy Taylor, a plunge into holiday chaos during a simmering summer in Greece. Maria Reva’s Endling takes us to Ukraine, where an eccentric scientist is breeding rare snails. And, Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse...dystopia with a twist.BOOKS Amy Taylor, Ruins, Allen & Unwin Maria Reva, Endling, Virago Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse, Grove Press GUESTS Mark Mordue, music writer, journalist, and poet – whose books include Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave Robert Goodman, critic who writes regularly for the Newtown Review of Books and on his website, Pile by the BedOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDNever Let Me Go, Kazuo IshiguroThe Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de WaalOn Chesil Beach, Ian McEwanLouise Erdrich, worksLanny, Max PorterThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan KarunatilakaBy Night in Chile; 2666, Roberto BolañoLeviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey Ancillary Justice, Ann LeckieChronicles, Bob Dylan Just Kids, Patti Smith Road Series, Hugo Race Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, Will Hermes Perdido Street Station, China Mieville Babel; Yellowface; Katabasis, R.F. KuangThe Animals in That Country, Laura Jean McKay The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation, Charlotte BeradtThe White Hotel, D.M. ThomasSalvage, Jennifer MillsJuice, Tim WintonArborescence; Hovering, Rhett DavisDeaf Republic, Ilya KaminskyCREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans and Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John Jacobs and Tegan NichollsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown