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

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.BOOKSDylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs, PicadorLev Grossman, The Bright Sword, Del RayValeria Usala, A Woman in Sardinia (trans from the Italian by Katherine Gregor), TextJean-Baptiste del Amo, The Son of Man (trans from the French by Frank Wynne), TextGUESTSPip 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 YearsItalo Calvino, If On a Winter's Night a TravellerJ P Pomare, Seventeen Years LaterFrederick Backman's BeartownArthuriads (an incomplete list)Thomas Mallory, Le Morte D'ArthurMary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy (The Crystal Cave etc)T H White's Once and Future King + seriesMarion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of AvalonMark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtGuy Gavriel Kay, Fionavar Tapestry/ The Darkest Road trilogyM K Hume's Merlin Emrys trilogyVictoria Gosling, Bliss and BlunderSophie Keetch, Morgan is my NameCREDITS• Presenter, Kate Evans + Jonathan Green• Producer, Kate Evans + James Pattison• Sound engineer, Roi Huberman + Simon Branthwaite• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown