Elizabeth Strout returns, Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear and more new fiction

This week’s Bookshelf features the latest from Elizabeth Strout, creator of Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton, returning with a stand‑alone novel called The Things We Never Say. We’re also reading an ambitious, genre‑bending novel that moves from 1980s gaming culture to far‑future space travel, and Daniel Kehlmann’s The Director, a German novel in translation that explores film, power and propaganda. Joining us to review are Geordie Williamson - critic, publisher and writer; and Robert Forster - singer‑songwriter, founding member of The Go‑Betweens, memoirist and brand new novelist with Songwriters on the Run. ~ REVIEWERS Robert Forster and Geordie Williamson ~ BOOKS Daniel Kehlmann, The Director (translated from the German by Ross Benjamin), Riverrun Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say, Viking Penguin Portia Elan, Homebound, Chatto & Windus Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear, Fourth Estate ~ OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Daniel Kehlmann, works Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton The Boundless Deep, Richard Holmes Johnno, David Malouf Keeley Jobe, The Endling Ana Paula Maia, On Earth as It Is Beneath ~ CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound, Craig Tilmouth and Roi Huberman Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown