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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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04:44

The Book Club: Frank Moorhouse Retrospective

The Bookshelf ·

2023/09/01

A year on from the death of Frank Moorhouse, we examine the work of this much-loved yet troubled writer with his biographer Catharine Lumby and colleague Angelo Loukakis.

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54:02

New fiction from Chris Womersley, Jenny Erpenbeck and...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/08/25

Kate and Cassie read Chris Womersley's Ordinary Gods and Monsters, Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos and Tan Twan Eng's The House of Doors with critic Declan Fry and novelist Nilima Rao

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54:00

New fiction from Peter Polites, Angela O'Keeffe and...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/08/18

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh read Peter Polites' God Forgets About the Poor, Angela O'Keeffe's The Sitter and Guy Guneratne's Mister Mister with poet Madison Godfrey and journalist and novelist Paul Daley

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54:03

New books by Ann Patchett, Naoise Dolan and Hwang...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/08/11

Cassie and Kate read Ann Patchett's Tom Lake, Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10 with actor Angourie Rice and novelist Jock Serong

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58:15

The Book Club - Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/08/04

Kate, Cassie and guests examine all six finalists for the 2023 miles Franklin Literary Award.

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56:36

Crooked Harlem, corrupt Wellington, bereaved London:...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/07/28

Kate and Cassie read Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto, Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of this Book and Emily Perkins' Lioness with poet Miles Merrill and literary scholar Bernadette Brennan

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54:02

A crying room, a road trip and blazing fury: Gretchen...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/07/21

Kate Evans and Jonathan Green read Gretchen Shirm's The Crying Room, Richard Ford's Be Mine and Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor with historian Peter McPhee and writer Ashley Hay. Cassie McCullagh will be back for the next edition of The Bookshelf.

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54:06

Fiction: The State of the Art

The Bookshelf ·

2023/07/13

Kate Evans onstage with writers Colson Whitehead, Eleanor Catton, Richard Flanagan and Tracey Lien at the recent Sydney Writers Festival, on the state of the novel.

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54:04

Wifedom, hoarded memories and political road rage:...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/07/07

Aboriginal, Chinese-Malaysian and Muslim writer and academic Eugenia Flynn co-hosts the Bookshelf this week with Kate Evans, reading Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, Priya Guns' Your Driver is Waiting and Jen Craig's Wall with novelists Max Easton (The Magpie Wing) and Amy Taylor (Search History)

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54:04

The Book Club: The Greek Myths

The Bookshelf ·

2023/06/30

What is it about the Greek myths that make them so adaptable, reusable, ever popular – and up for all manner of rewrites?

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Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist 2023: pod...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/06/29

Interviews with all six shortlisted authors for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award from RN's The Bookshelf and Book Show (in alphabetical order). The shortlist was announced on 20 June; the winner will be announced on 25 July.

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54:04

Gay saunas, dog walking and an extravagant lie: new...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/06/23

Stealing a manuscript, walking your grief along coastal edges and underhand behaviour at an international AIDS conference: Kate and Cassie read Dennis Altman's Death in the Sauna, R F Kuang's Yellowface and Briohny Doyle's Why We Are Here with guests Benjamin Law and Lee Kofman

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Strangers and Saints: Katherena Vermette and Benjamin...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/06/16

A story of wandering pilgrims, woman brewers, stonemasons and eels – in the North of England from the 7th century until now; and Métis-Michif women in Canada across the twentieth and into the twenty-first century: Kate Evans speaks with Katherena Vermette about The Strangers (recorded at the 2023 Brisbane Writers Festival) and Benjamin Myers about Cuddy

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54:08

Politicians, ghosts and sad girls: books by Lorrie...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/06/09

Naked politicians, roadtrips with the dead, and funny-sad girls in Berlin: Kate and Cassie read Robert Gott's Naked Ambition, Lorrie Moore's I am Homeless if this is not My Home and Pip Finkemeyer's Sad Girl Novel with critics Jessie Tu and Madeleine Gray.

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01:45

The Book Club - Romantic Comedy

The Bookshelf ·

2023/06/02

Step aboard this Book Club edition of The Bookshelf which is hopelessly devoted to the genre of Romantic Comedy.

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54:08

From the Sydney Writers Festival with Shehan...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/05/26

Kate and Cassie recorded this edition of The Bookshelf onstage at the Sydney Writers Festival on Friday 26 May 2023 with writers Shehan Karunatilaka, Jason Reynolds and Grace Chan

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54:05

Grifters, pilgrims and scribes: new fiction from Emma...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/05/19

Kate and Cassie read Benjamin Myers' Cuddy, Robyn Cadwallader's The Fire and the Rose and Emma Cline's The Guest with mediaeval historian Clare Monagle and novelist Laura McPhee-Brown

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00:08

History, identity, doppelgangers: new fiction from...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/05/12

Kate and Cassie read Deborah Levy's August Blue, André Dao's Anam and Catherine Lacey's Biography of X with guests writer and curator Sheila Ngọc Phạm and theatre writer Tom Wright. Histories, family stories, identities, doppelgangers, secrets and lies.

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54:05

Poetry, jumpers, islands: new fiction from John...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/05/05

Kate and Cassie read John Kinsella’s Cell Night: A Verse Novel, Jente Posthuma’s What I’d Rather Not Think About and Justin Cronin’s The Ferryman with poet and novelist Omar Sakr and documentary maker Johan Gabrielsson

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58:09

The Book Club: Salman Rushdie

The Bookshelf ·

2023/04/28

When Salman Rushdie was attacked in Chautauqua, New York in August last year, Victory City, his latest novel, was already finished. Some say it's not only a return to form, but also uncannily prophetic.

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