An Australian story of the tender, eager lives of greyhounds and their owners in Tenderfoot by Australian author Toni Jordan. Dark academia in Yellowface author R.F. Kuang’s new fantasy novel, Katabasis. Sport, miracles, and the Amish, in Ron Rindo’s Life, and Death, and Giants. BOOKS  Toni Jordan, Tenderfoot, Hachette  R.F. Kuang, Katabasis, Harper Voyager  Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants, Pan Macmillan  GUESTS  Seth Robinson, writer, producer, and lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He is also co-hosting a new podcast with Tony Birch – Unfolded – in which writers take apart short stories to see what makes them work.  Michael McGirr, writer, reviewer, and mission director at Caritas Australia. His own books include Ideas to Save Your Life, Books that Saved my Life, and The Story of a Road  MICHAEL'S TOP 100 LIST Patriot by Alexei Navalny.   This is Happiness by Niall Williams  Apeirogon by Colum McCann  King by Jonathan Eig  People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks  Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright  Emily Wilson’s Translation of the Odyssey  The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton  Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung  The Fig Tree by Arnold Zable SETH'S TOP 100 LIST Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver  The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt  Educated, Tara Westover  Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton  Less, Andrew Sean Greer  The Overstory, Richard Powers  Still Life, Sarah Winman   The Passage (Trilogy), Justin Cronin  Station 11, Emily St John Mandel  James, Percival Everett   OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip Gillian Mears, Foal's Bread Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Tony Birch, Pictures of You Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Roi Huberman Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown