The much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami, and plenty more...

What do Kate and Cassie make of Will Self’s Elaine, a portrait of a frustrated fifties housewife, based on his mother's own diaries. Plus, The City and its Uncertain Walls, the much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami with a dreamy library in a parallel universe at its centre; and Rosalia Aguilar Solace’s The Great Library of Tomorrow, another novel set in an alternate world that pays tribute to libraries. BOOKS Will Self, Elaine, Grove Press Haruki Murakami, The City and its Uncertain Walls (translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel), Harvill Secker Rosalia Aguilar Solace, The Great Library of Tomorrow, Text GUESTS Jon Page, long-time bookseller. General Manager, Dymocks, Sydney CBD store C.S. Pacat, writer whose books include the Dark Rise and Captive Prince series, and the graphic novel Fence series. OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Stephanie Meyers, Twilight series Samantha Harvey, Orbital Asako Yuzuki, Butter Genevieve Cogman, Invisible Libraries Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel; Labyrinths Anne Rice, The Vampire Chronicles Christine Dwyer Hickey, Our London Lives Colum McCann, Apeirogon; Twist CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: Craig Tilmouth, Beth Stewart Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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