Tara June Winch is the Wiradjuri author of Swallow the Air and After the Carnage, and her latest release The Yield is due to be released in the US on 2 June 2020 (following its 2019 release in Australia). It has achieved successes in prestigious literary prizes including being shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize, winning Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and People’s Choice Award at the 2020 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, and it is currently longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Our co-host Jaclyn loved this book and is overjoyed that many more international readers will now be able to read this one too. The novel is told in three voices and timelines—in a dictionary being compiled by Poppy Gondiwindi, in the letters of a German Lutheran missionary, and the protagonist, August Gondiwindi, in the contemporary timeline.