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 MENTIONED Willa Cather, works David Szalay, Flesh Gretchen 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

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