James Bradley’s Landfall reveals a flooded, baked and dilapidated city

Cities that are both flooded and on alert for the next storm in James Bradley’s Landfall. The body of a saint, dreamily and weirdly listening to everyone around her in Western Australia, in Josephine Rowe’s Little World. And from Malaysia, Tash Aw's The South, in which a family has left the city to head to a failing orchard, a story of longing, promise, generations, and misunderstandings  

BOOKS 

James Bradley, Landfall, Penguin 

Josephine Rowe, Little World, Black Inc 

Tash Aw, The South, Fourth Estate 

GUESTS 

Tegan Bennett-Daylight, novelist, teacher, and essayist, whose books include Bombora, What Falls Away, and The Details. Her latest, How to Survive 1985, is a YA novel that will be published in May  

Rosa Ellen, producer and presenter with Radio National’s Arts team 

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDWilla Cather, worksDavid Szalay, FleshGretchen Shirm, Out of the Woods  Yuko Tsushima, Territory of Light  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kappa Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

CREDITS

• Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
• Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Craig Tilmouth and Isabella Tropiano
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown