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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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57:57

New books by Max Porter, Han Kang and Yan Lianke

The Bookshelf ·

2023/04/22

Reading Max Porter's Shy, Han Kang's Greek Lessons and Yan Lianke's Heart Sutra with writers (and writers-in-translation, both) Linda Jaivin and Ennis Ćehić

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54:06

A bookbinder, Andy Warhol's typist and the cleverest...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/04/14

Reading Pip Williams' The Bookbinder of Jericho, Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen and Nicole Flattery's Nothing Special with writers Ashley Kalagian Blunt and Joanna Horton

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54:06

Dystopia, satire, gladiators and gardeners: new...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/04/06

Savage explorations of the present, using different literary forms, in two new novels. Kate and Cassie are joined by guests film academic Bruce Isaacs and NZ literary leader Claire Mabey, to read Booker Prize winning novelist Eleanor Catton's latest, Birnam Wood, and American writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars.

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54:05

The Book Club - weather in fiction with Hannah Kent...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/03/31

A journey through the myriad of ways weather presents itself in fiction for this monthly edition of The Book Club.

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00:00

Mermaids, man overboard and more: new fiction from...

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2023/03/24

Reading Julia Langbein's comedic take on Hollywood's ruthless screen industry in American Mermaid, and Stephanie Bishop's The Anniversary, a watery mystery about creative tension and desire.

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00:00

Sleuths, silence, secrets: new fiction from Rebecca...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/03/17

Reading award-winning novelist Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions For You, along with The Silence Project by Carole Hailey. Plus, an interview with much-loved Irish novelist Sebastian Barry.

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00:00

Freedom, family and an all-consuming love: new...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/03/10

Reading Anindita Ghose's bestseller The Illuminated and Is Mother Dead by Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth with guest reviewers Maria Takolander and Suma Iyer, and an interview with Australian author Alice Nelson.

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23:00

Podcast extra: Infidelity and compassion: changing...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/03/06

Novels about infidelity can be cautionary tales but also reveal changing attitudes

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54:00

The Book Club: Infidelity

The Bookshelf ·

2023/03/03

Is there a more enduring theme in literature? From the ancient greats to bestseller romances, it's been the subject of both untold anguish and fascination. Why is it that we never seem to tire of this all-too-human experience?

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00:00

Raucous aunts, warriors and dragons, Queer Nigeria...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/02/24

A Sydney WorldPride edition of the Bookshelf, as Kate and Cassie are joined by guests George Haddad and C S Pacat to read Samantha Shannon's A Day of Fallen Night and K Ming Chang's Gods of Want (with comments from both these writers); and Arinze Ifeakandu (God's Children Are Little Broken Things) on queer lives and writing in Nigeria.

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00:00

Trinidad, Antarctica and a corporate city-state in...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/02/17

Reading Kevin Jared Hosein's Hungry Ghosts, set in 1940s Trinidad (and we hear from the author too); Tom Rob Smith's Cold People, in a reshaped Antarctica, and Cho Nam-Joo's Saha in a corporate city-state, imagined in Korea. Kate and Cassie are joined by writer Shannon Burns and literary facilitator Michaela Kalowski.

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00:00

From Barbados in the 1830s to the Melbourne present...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/02/10

Poet Maxine Beneba Clarke and novelist Michael Winkler join Kate and Cassie as they read Ronnie Scott's Shirley, Eleanor Shearer's River Sing Me Home and James Kelman's God's Teeth and Other Phenomena

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00:00

From frontier western to a wandering ghost: new fiction

The Bookshelf ·

2023/02/03

Unquiet ghosts, disconcerting babies, a shattered bust of a despot and a frontier Western: reading Stefan Hertmans' The Ascent, Ben Hobson's The Death of John Lacey and Laura McPhee Browns Little Plum with guests books writer Nicole Abadee and crime podcaster Ben Herder; and speaking with Paul Dalgarno about the books that shaped his latest, A Country of Eternal Light (hint: hello, Frankenstein)

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00:00

Serial killers, thrillers and Shirley Hazzard: new...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/01/27

Kate and Cassie are back with new fiction for 2023: reading Bret Easton Ellis' The Shards and Deepti Kapoor's Age of Vice with guests Geordie Williamson and Sue Turnbull; and Brigitta Olubas on her biography of writer Shirley Hazzard

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00:00

Summer Reading: Where will books take you?

The Bookshelf ·

2023/01/20

Hoofbeats, assassins and tracks in the snow. Rereading Gillian Mears’ novel Foal’s Bread; reading Kári Gíslason's The Sorrow Stone; and speaking to Karen Joy Fowler about her novel Booth and the books that shaped it.

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30:00

Books Extra: Fiona McFarlane's The Sun Walks Down

The Bookshelf ·

2023/01/19

A child is lost in a nineteenth-century landscape carved out of both thousands of years of history, and more recent expectations and misunderstandings. An entire community rallies to find him – but their pathways diverge, overtake, retrace and obliterate each other. What a story! Novelist Fiona McFarlane speaks about The Sun Walks Down with Kate Evans.

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Summer reading: from the afterlife to New Zealand...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/01/13

Reading Steve Toltz's Here Goes Nothing and Ashley Goldberg's Abomination, and speaking to Tracey Lien (All That's Left Unsaid) and Sue Orr (Loop Tracks) about the books that have shaped them.

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30:00

Books Extra: Becky Manawatu and Leila Mottley

The Bookshelf ·

2023/01/12

Stories that are tough and joyful, heartbreaking and beautiful, confronting and worth it: Kate Evans speaks with New Zealand writer Becky Manawatu about her novel, Aue; and to American writer Leila Mottley about Nightcrawling

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00:00

Summer Reading: It's time to catch up on some great...

The Bookshelf ·

2023/01/06

Reading Canadian Métis writer Katherena Vermette's The Strangers, Irish writer Louise Kennedy's Trespasses, and speaking to Scottish writer Graeme Macrae Burnet about Case Study and the bookshelf that made it

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30:00

Books Extra: Audrey Magee's The Colony

The Bookshelf ·

2023/01/05

What is it about Irish storytelling: that combination of poetry and pain, brutality and a wicked laugh or ten? All that lyrical toughness, and a sense of a history punctuated by a drumbeat of violence, is on display in Audrey Magee's novel, The Colony. A conversation with Kate EvansOther books and writers mentioned in this conversation:Emily Dickinson, worksMarcel Proust, worksJames Joyce, worksColette, worksPeig: The autobiography of Peig SayersWilliam Butler Yeats, works

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