Oz, that mythical land, where days are hotter than chilli sauce and water goes down the plughole the wrong way… This month we’re talking to Evie Wyld about her books ‘All the Birds, Singing’, and ‘Everything is Teeth’, both set in Australia. From the writing of Miles Franklin to Richard Flanagan via the mad world of Paul Jennings, we chat about Australia’s many depictions in literature, but we also ponder the metaphorical meaning behind that nickname: Oz as the foreign, the distant, the magical and the exotic; something that the Antipodean has long represented for damp and green Britain.
