Cassie McCullough

And this one is part of Radio National's NAIDOC Week offering.

The writer we're going to hear from, Kate, is Karen Wilde.

Oh, OK.

All right.

So this is Karen Wilde, Wilde with a Y. Let's hear what she has to say.

Karen Wilde, Where the Fruit Falls is from UWA Publishing.

And for more on the ABC's NAIDOC Week coverage, head to abc.net.au slash Indigenous.

And Trio by William Boyd.

See you next time.

And I'm Cassie McCullough, and we have three big new books today, Kate.

And Keridwyn Dovey's new novel, Life After Truth, where we spend a long weekend on campus at Harvard University.

Well, let's start with Keridwyn Dovey's life on campus as old friends reunite.

Australian writer Keridwyn Dovey was born in South Africa, but she grew up mostly in Australia.

And then she received a scholarship to study at the prestigious Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since then, she's written a number of award-winning books of fiction, including Only the Animals and In the Garden of Fugitives, which we spoke about back in 2018, Kate.

And she also joined us here when she had written a piece on the work of J.M.

Coetzee, the South African writer and Nobel Prize winner, who is now also an Australian.

Now, Keridwyn herself, as we have said, went to Harvard.

She was in the year that finished in 2003, as I understand it, which is also the year that Jared Kushner finished at Harvard and the year that Natalie Portman was there, the actress who was coming and going from her studies as she was starring in the Star Wars trilogy.

And helpfully, right at the beginning of this novel, we get their little praises that they've put in the Harvard Red Book.