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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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Popular fiction across space and time, and queer bush...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/06/19

The latest best-selling novels from Taylor Jenkins-Reid (Atmosphere) and Fredrik Backman (My Friends) explore 1980s astronauts, ambition and romance; and teenage anguish, friendship and art. Emotive and cinematic, how often is popular fiction written for the screen?Speaking of the screen, screenwriter Thomas Vowles’ debut novel Our New Gods takes us on a twisted psychological thriller through gay saunas, bush doofs, and the grit of Melbourne’s queer scene.BOOKSThomas Vowles, Our

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1:00:00

Reading James Joyce's Ulysses for Bloomsday (and new...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/06/12

A guide to James Joyce from Irish writer Mary Morrissy, ahead of Bloomsday (16 June); New Zealand writer Becky Manawatu continues to explore howls of pain and compassion in her second novel, Kataraina; and magic realism in the boundaries between life and death, and Eastern Europe, in Helen Marshall's The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death. BOOKSJames Joyce, Ulysses (1922)Mary Morrissy, Penelope Unbound, Banshee PressBecky Manawatu, Kataraina, ScribeHelen Marshall, The

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0:54:06

New fiction from Gail Jones, S A Cosby and Seán Hewitt

The Bookshelf ·

2025/06/05

Fiction from all over the world, crossing genres, borders and ideas in American crime writer S A Cosby's King of Ashes, a gripping tale of family, smoke, and fire; Irish writer Sean Hewitt’s Open, Heaven, a beautifully woven story about longing, escape and memory; and, first up, The Name of the Sister, the latest from acclaimed Australian literary novelist Gail Jones.BOOKS Gail Jones, The Name of the Sister, Text S A Cosby, King of Ashes, Headline Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven,

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0:54:04

A vibrant gay coming-of-age story set in Geraldton

The Bookshelf ·

2025/05/29

Kate and Cassie read W.A. writer Holden Sheppard's King of Dirt, a vibrant, gay coming-of-age story set in Geraldton. Plus, Australian author Jennifer Mills' new one, Salvage, in which we enter a very well drawn post apocalyptic Mad Max-ish world; and, Florence Knapp's The Names has been named one of the most anticipated fiction releases of the year, a sliding doors story leading to three different versions of one family's life. Does it live up to the hype?BOOKSHolden Sheppard,

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0:55:06

Sydney Writers' Festival: Alan Hollinghurst,...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/05/23

Live from Sydney Writers' Festival, and with an introduction by Emirate poet Afra Atiq, we bring together guests Catherine Chidgey, Mariana Enriquez and Alan Hollinghurst to discuss the most influential works in both fiction and non-fiction. From gripping novels that have captured our imaginations to thought-provoking non-fiction that has reshaped our understanding of the world, this event will celebrate the literary achievements that have defined the past quarter-century.BOOKS

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0:54:06

On stage at Melbourne Writers' Festival with Hannah...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/05/15

A live recording from Melbourne Writers' Festival as Hannah Kent and Beejay Silcox sit down with Kate Evans and Jonathan Green to discuss the latest fiction releases they’re enjoying, loving and being challenged by. BOOKS- Hannah Kent, Always Home, Always Homesick, Picador- Eimear McBride, The City Changes its Face, Faber- Susan Choi, Flashlight, Jonathan Cape- Edward St Aubyn, Parallel Lines, Jonathan Cape- Caryl Phillips, Another Man in the Street, BloomsburyGUESTSHannah Kent,

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0:54:04

A woman falls through the cracks of time in the first...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/05/08

One day lived over and over again with humour, despair and self-improvement is what we’re up against in Danish novelist Solvej Balle’s On The Calculation of Volume, a fictional work in seven volumes, the first volume (the one we’re talking about in this episode), has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Plus, The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, the poet and novelist famous for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous; and The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, a portrait

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0:54:04

A beach holiday told four ways in Luke Horton's Time...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/05/01

Old friends gather together on the coast in Australian writer Luke Horton’s Time Together, Kate and Cassie take a look. Plus, Jo Harkin’s The Pretender, set during the time of the Tudors' ascent it tells the story of a little-known real-life figure; and Laura Elvery’s Nightingale, a re-imagining of the life of Florence Nightingale.BOOKS Luke Horton, Time Together, Scribe Jo Harkin, The Pretender, Bloomsbury Circus Laura Elvery, Nightingale, UQP GUESTS Jane Caro, social commentator,

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0:54:06

James Bradley's Landfall reveals a flooded, baked and...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/04/24

Cities that are both flooded and on alert for the next storm in James Bradley’s Landfall. The body of a saint, dreamily and weirdly listening to everyone around her in Western Australia, in Josephine Rowe’s Little World. And from Malaysia, Tash Aw's The South, in which a family has left the city to head to a failing orchard, a story of longing, promise, generations, and misunderstandings BOOKS James Bradley, Landfall, Penguin Josephine Rowe, Little World, Black Inc Tash Aw, The

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0:54:00

The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/04/18

Irish writer Niall Williams with Kate Evans at the 2025 Adelaide Writers Week — with a focus on his Faha novels, History of the Rain, This is Happiness and (his latest) Time of the Child.Williams is also a screenwriter, playwright and travel writer — and his first novel, Four Letters of Love, has just been released as a film.He also appeared onstage at AWW with Kate and Cassie, for a special edition of the Bookshelf on books, reading, and influences, with English writer Charlotte

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0:54:07

A love triangle set against the beauty of Montana in...

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2025/04/17

Families, secrets, mysteries, war...Kate and Cassie read Eric Puchner’s Dream State, an American saga that spans fifty years; mysterious encounters in Katie Kitamura’s Audition, and a World War II story set in an apartment block in Brussels in Alice Austen’s 33 Place Brugmann.BOOKSEric Puchner, Dream State, SceptreKatie Kitamura, Audition, Fern PressAlice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann, BloomsburyGUESTSMark Mordue, music writer, journalist, poet – whose books include Boy on Fire: The

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1:13:09

Folk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/04/10

Cassie McCullagh is on leave this week, so Kate Evans and guests read Lucy Rose’s The Lamb, Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel, and Rachel Morton’s The Sun was Electric Light (with interview extracts from Lucy Rose on body horror and Cumbrian folk traditions, and from Rachel Morton on her move from poetry to prose).BOOKS Rachel Morton, The Sun was Electric Light, UQP Lucy Rose, The Lamb, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel, Bloomsbury GUESTS Roanna Gonsalves,

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0:54:06

Andrea Goldsmith's The Buried Life - and a train...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/04/03

Kate and Cassie read three new works of fiction, with the help of two guest reviewers: a novel of ideas, death, love and music, in Australian writer Andrea Goldsmith's The Buried Life; a real train derailment from the 1890s hurtles together rail workers, coffee sellers, anarcho-feminism, art and typewriters in Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue's The Paris Express (read with historical novelist Natasha Lester); and rocknroll choices, career crises and friendship in Australian YA

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0:54:36

Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell + Tim Rogers and...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/03/27

Kate and Cassie discuss bestselling American writer Curtis Sittenfeld’s sharp and observant collection of short stories Show Don’t Tell; You Am I frontman Tim Rogers reads First Name Second Name, an excellent debut from Queensland novelist Steve MinOn, and the ABC’s own Zan Rowe (of Triple J, Double J and Take 5 fame) shares her thoughts on Scottish singer-songwriter (from Belle and Sebastian) Stuart Murdoch’s Nobody’s Empire, a case of life inspiring art.BOOKS Curtis Sittenfeld,

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0:54:05

This week’s novels takes us to Zanzibar, Budapest and...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/03/20

This week’s novels takes us to Zanzibar, Budapest and Renaissance Florence with Nobel Prize-winning English-Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Theft; while guest reviewers Tim Ayliffe reads Laurent Binet’s Perspectives; and Siang Lu reads David Szalay’s Flesh.BOOKS Abdulrazak Gurnah, Theft, Bloomsbury Laurent Binet, Perspectives (translated from the French by Sam Taylor), Harvill Secker David Szalay, Flesh, Jonathan Cape GUESTSTim Ayliffe, journalist and crime writer – whose John

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0:54:06

On stage at Adelaide Writers' Week with Niall...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/03/13

This edition of the Bookshelf was recorded on stage at Adelaide Writers' Week on Sunday 2 March – with Irish writer Niall Williams (Time of the Child), English writer Charlotte Mendelson (Wife) and all the way from the Adelaide Hills, Australian writer Brian Castro (Chinese Postman). How and when do they do their best reading, what have books meant to them, what are their influences and touchstones? With a surprising swerve or to into the bath and to the funeral of a beloved

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0:54:06

On stage at Adelaide Writers' Week with Niall...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/03/13

This edition of the Bookshelf was recorded on stage at Adelaide Writers' Week on Sunday 2 March – with Irish writer Niall Williams (Time of the Child), English writer Charlotte Mendelson (Wife) and all the way from the Adelaide Hills, Australian writer Brian Castro (Chinese Postman). How and when do they do their best reading, what have books meant to them, what are their influences and touchstones? With a surprising swerve or to into the bath and to the funeral of a beloved

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0:54:06

Australian bestseller Diana Reid returns with Signs...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/03/06

Four women’s lives intertwined between Africa and the USA in Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count. Plus, secrets and trauma in the South of France in Australian novelist Diana Reid’s new one, Signs of Damage; and into the Swedish wilderness to observe a group of seven unlikely people in indie musician turned novelist Annika Norlin’s Colony.BOOKSChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count, Fourth EstateDiana Reid, Signs of Damage, Ultimo PressAnnika Norlin, Colony,

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0:54:03

Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/02/27

Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery; 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s We Do Not Part explores massacres on Jeju Island during (and after) the Korean War, stories actively repressed by both the South Korean and American governments; and Australian novelist Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore takes us to a fictional island between Tasmania and Antarctica, inhabited only by a man and his three children.BOOKSColum McCann,

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0:53:46

Mothers and Sons...is the story as fraught as the...

The Bookshelf ·

2025/02/20

An examination of family dynamics through three novels...Adam Haslett’s Mothers and Sons reflects on unspoken stories and familial divides; The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr, set in 1970s Ireland, tells the story of a family that takes in a child washed ashore, and Robert Lukins’ Somebody Down There Likes Me depicts an uber-rich family who gather together as their wealth and corruption begin to unravel.BOOKSAdam Haslett, Mothers and Sons, Hamish HamiltonRobert Lukins, Somebody

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