Kate Evans

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25,858 appearances 189 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2018 last heard 5d ago

Kate Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Bookshelf · Art, apocalypse and country people · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

She keeps on destabilising us and it's fascinating. voice-verified

So we're always seeing through her eyes. voice-verified

In the first section we're seeing through her eyes, then there's a small section where we're reading a pamphlet. voice-verified

from this very strange expedition, then we meet the man and then at the end we get another character's perspective and I won't tell you who. voice-verified

And so even what we think we know from the mother's perspective, when we see somebody else looking at her, we see her completely afresh. voice-verified

She's almost blank and she doesn't speak, like she's a woman of action and voice-verified

And we get some of her backstory. voice-verified

There'd been a man in her life, a boyfriend of her mother's, who taught her to hunt and how to survive. voice-verified

And so it's this quite brutal world that we're in and it's deliberately sort of strange, strange and beautiful and a bit poetic all at the same time. voice-verified

And it's not quite as bleak as The Road, but it's not cheerful. voice-verified

I mean, this is... We're in the realms of climate fiction, of asking what's happened to the world, of trying to work out why the streets look as they do, why there's sand, why everybody's having to think about water. voice-verified

So it's in that genre, but it doesn't feel derivative. voice-verified

It really does. voice-verified

And it's partly because we're imagining it from the inside rather than getting the sort of big picture that I'm giving you because that emerges slowly throughout the book. voice-verified

Okay, well, how about now on the bookshelf, we'd start to think more about favourite books in the lead up to the Top 100 Australian Books Countdown. voice-verified

I was in the State Library of New South Wales recently reading about the very first book published in Australia, which was printed in about 1812, and it was a collection of sort of legislation and rules, actually. voice-verified

Yarns. voice-verified

Yeah, it might be on somebody's top ten. voice-verified

Well, that's such a great reminder too, that when people are thinking about their favourite Australian books, we're talking fiction as well as non-fiction. voice-verified

So people might well have the work of Robert Hughes on their own list of top 10. voice-verified

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