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The Bookshelf

What are you reading, loving or being challenged by? We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.

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54:06

Summer Reads: True Crime, historical injustice, NZ...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/01/12

The Bookshelf is a program for dedicated readers and those who wished they read more.

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54:06

Summer Reads: from Aphra Behn to Max Porter

The Bookshelf ·

2024/01/05

Restoration political satire, Mediaeval rumour, eco-terrorism in New Zealand and a young man with a mixtape full of angst. Reading Max Porter's Shy, Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood, Robyn Cadwallader's The Fire and the Rose with guests Clare Mabey and Clare Monagle; and an introduction to the writing of Aphra Behn from novelist Karen Brooks (The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson)

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54:04

Summer reading: heists, horses, Harlem, Ireland, rage

The Bookshelf ·

2023/12/29

Looking for books to rock you back on your heels? You've come to the right place. Kate and Cassie read Deborah Levy's August Blue, Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto, Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of this Book and Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor, with Miles Merrill, Bernadette Brennan, Jonathan Green and Ashley Hay

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54:07

Summer Reads: Impossible creatures, an Indian...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/12/22

Best books from the year, and some new interviews too. Kate and Cassie read Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake and Deepti Kapoor’s Age of Vice with guest crime specialist Sue Turnbull (and an extended conversation with Kapoor), and fantasy and the imagination with scholar and children’s author Katherine Rundell and her Impossible Creatures.

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54:06

Romance, crime, adventure: Summer reading...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/12/15

Melanie Saward joins Kate for a genre-filled reading recommendation discussion of romance, the pseudonymous crime fiction of Australian author George Johnston (with Derham Groves), and historical fiction of the Hundred Years War with Dan Jones. What will you read over Summer?

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54:08

Best Books of 2023: What to read now, next and over...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/12/08

Kate, Cassie and three reading guests (critic Beejay Silcox, Books Editor Jason Steger and kids' author Tristan Bancks) on the books they've loved, the books they'd recommend, the books to give to a friend, the books to read over Summer (and yes, there is a list).

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57:43

Bad Art Mother: Canberra Writers Festival Book Club...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/12/07

Kate Evans onstage for the Bookshelf and Canberra Writers Festival with CWF Artistic Director and critic Beejay Silcox, and novelist Edwina Preston, on Edwina's novel Bad Art Mother . . . and art, writing, motherhood, poetry and all the rest.

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52:38

The Book Club: Thrillers

The Bookshelf ·

2023/12/01

Are you a crime fiction thriller fan? Those stories that get your heart racing and keep you awake all night? Even if you only dip into the genre once in a blue moon, you'll want to join us for a lively thriller themed Book Club with two top-notch crime fiction afficiandoes.

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54:06

Reading the end of the world: Naomi Alderman, Michael...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/11/24

Kate and Cassie read Nicholas Jose's The Idealist, Michael Cunningham's Day, Naomi Alderman's The Future and Katherine Brabon's Body Friend with guests Eugen Bacon (Serengotti) and Mireille Juchau (The World Without Us)

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54:07

Lucy Treloar, Tony Birch, Paul Auster, A K Blakemore:...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/11/17

Kate and Cassie read Lucy Treloar’s Days of Innocence and Wonder, Paul Auster’s Baumgartner, Tony Birch’s Women and Children and A K Blakemore’s The Glutton with academic Bruce Isaacs and writer Laura Elvery

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54:09

Memory, history, ghosts and parrots: Richard...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/11/10

Kate and Cassie read Richard Flanagan's Question 7, Jayne Anne Phillips' Night Watch and Sigrid Nunez's The Vulnerables with guests novelist Eleanor Limprecht and writer Patrick Carey

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54:30

The Book Club: Historical Fiction with Jesmyn Ward's...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/11/03

A monthly Book Club edition looking at works by two major literary names that add to the growing body of work attempting to address the past.

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00:16

New novels from Christos Tsiolkas, Amanda Lohrey,...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/10/27

Kate and Cassie read Christos Tsiolkas' The In-Between, Siân Hughes' Pearl, Amanda Lohrey's The Conversion and David Diop's Beyond the Door of No Return with guests critic and literary judge James Ley and novelist and podcaster Kate Mildenhall. Translation, shame, lamentations, renovation and love.

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54:06

Jellyfish, beauty, betrayal and Camelot: new fiction

The Bookshelf ·

2023/10/20

Kate and Cassie read Victoria Gosling's Bliss and Blunder, Sophie Keetch's Morgan is my Name, Joel Deane's Judas Boys and Mona Awad's Rouge with novelist A J Betts and theatre writer Tom Wright

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57:24

Melissa Lucashenko, Charlotte Wood and Bryan...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/10/13

Kate and Cassie read Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie, Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional and Bryan Washington's Family Meal with guests Meredith Lake (Soul Search) and writer Sam Twyford-Moore (Castmates: Australian actors in Hollywood and at Home).

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54:06

Three major new works - Trent Dalton, Paul Harding...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/10/06

Three major new works to delve into in this episode, by Trent Dalton, Paul Harding and Suzie Miller.

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54:06

The Book Club - Short Stories

The Bookshelf ·

2023/09/29

In this edition of The Book Club we look at the art, and the science, of the short story with three brand new and intriguing Australian collections.

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54:06

Lauren Groff, Daniel Mason and Anna Kate Blair:...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/09/21

Kate and Cassie read Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds, Daniel Mason's North Woods and Anna Kate Blair's The Modern with writer Maggie Mackellar (Graft) and the Art Show's Rosa Ellen. Survival, hunger, lush landscapes, ambition, art, history . . . with a surprising side of beetles, apples, wedding dresses and frozen fish.

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57:09

Novels by Anne Enright, Paul Lynch and Emma Donoghue:...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/09/15

Reading yet more extraordinary fiction from Irish novelists (OK Emma Donoghue actually now lives in Canada, but she's originally Irish): Kate and Cassie on Paul Lynch's Prophet Song, Anne Enright's The Wren, The Wren, and Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart with guests critic and novelist Gretchen Shirm and poet Beth Spencer

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54:06

Bringing the Past to Life: with Geraldine Brooks, Pip...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/09/07

Kate Evans discusses historical fiction onstage at the Sydney Writers Festival with Geraldine Brooks (Horse, Year of Wonders, March), Pip Williams (The Bookbinder of Jericho, The Dictionary of Lost Words) and Sally Colin-James)

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