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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

Soap, silences and happy stories (maybe): new fiction...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/05/07

Reading Paddy O’Reilly's Other Houses, Patrick Gale's Mother’s Boy and Norman Erikson Pasaribu's Happy Stories, Mostly with writers Ennis Ćehić (Sadvertising) and Hilde Hinton (A Solitary Walk on the Moon)

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55:19

The Book Club: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/04/30

Reading Jennifer Egan's 2010 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad and her newly-released The Candy House, with rock'n'roll reader Tim Rogers and novelist Rhett Davis

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54:06

A moon colony, T S Eliot, Shakespeare and pain: new...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/04/23

Cassie is away this week, so Kate is joined by the ABC's Tiger Webb: reading Emily St John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, Steven Carroll's Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight, and Mona Awad's All’s Well, with novelist Rhett Davis and critic Nicole Abadee

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55:46

A Glasgow teenager, a Roman emperor and a sneaky...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/04/16

Reading Douglas Stuart's Young Mungo, Julian Barnes' Elizabeth Finch and Charmian Clift's Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected Essays with writers Nadia Wheatley and Ruth Wilson (The Jane Austen Remedy)

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53:33

A snowy Tokyo, a haunted house and a cracked swimming...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/04/09

Reading Jessica Au's Cold Enough for Snow, John Darnielle's Devil House and Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers with novelists Anna Downes and Diana Reid.

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57:14

The Book Club: reading New Zealand through Keri...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/04/01

Children, violence, landscape, and powerful and strange writing: we're talking fiction from New Zealand with the director of Wellington's Verb Writers' Festival Claire Mabey and novelist Sam Coley. Rereading Keri Hulmes' The Bone People from 1984 and the newly-released The Fish by Lloyd Jones. Passion, laughter, and even some tears

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53:43

Mexico, dystopian exile, and Oz suburbia: new fiction...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/03/25

Reading Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor's Paradais, Australian Toni Jordan's Dinner with the Schnabels and English debut novelist Tom Watson's Metronome

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57:43

Iceland, Nebraska and the Sunshine Coast: new fiction...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/03/18

Reading Robert Lukins' Loveland, Kári Gíslason's The Sorrow Stone and Harlan Coben's The Match with crime writer Loraine Peck (The Second Son) and mediaeval Icelandic literature specialist Lisa Bennett

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56:55

New fiction from Ireland and New Zealand

The Bookshelf ·

2022/03/11

Reading Irish novel The Colony by Audrey Magee, and two New Zealand novels, Becky Manawatu's Auē and Sue Orr's Loop Tracks, with guests publisher Jemma Birrell and novelist Lyn Yeowart

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55:54

The Book Club: Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Love Marriage

The Bookshelf ·

2022/03/04

Reading Monica Ali's 2003 debut novel, Brick Lane and latest release, Love Marriage with guests writer Roanna Gonsalves and RN's Richard Aedy. Love, marriage, migration, displacement, drama, storytelling.

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54:05

New fiction from Omar Sakr, Karen Joy Fowler and...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/02/25

Western Sydney, coastal Victoria and nineteenth-century America: reading Omar Sakr's Son of Sin, Karen Joy Fowler's Booth and Aoife Clifford's When We Fall with guests historian Ethan Blue and crime afficionado Felix Shannon

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56:57

Reading Korean history, fierce Italian parents and a...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/02/18

Reading Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark, Juhea Kim's Beasts of a Little Land and Claudia Durastanti, Strangers I Know with guests Melissa Fulton from The Big Issue and literary studies academic Julian Novitz

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54:07

Reading our way to islands, monsters, balloons,...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/02/11

Reading Emily Brugman's The Islands, Vanessa Len's Only a Monster and Hélène Gaudy's A World With No Shore (translated by Stephanie Smee) with writers Michelle Law and Molly Murn

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54:08

The Book Club: Rebecca and Rebecca

The Bookshelf ·

2022/02/04

Reading Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, Rebecca, and Graeme Macrae Burnet's Case Study (which includes a character in the mid 1960s who takes on a Rebecca persona in direct response to du Maurier's novel) - with guests literary lecturer Susannah Fullerton and crime writer Chris Hammer

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54:11

Reading Hanya Yanagihara, Gary Shteyngart and Nikki May

The Bookshelf ·

2022/01/28

Reading Hanya Yanigahara's To Paradise, Gary Shteyngart's Our Country Friends and Nikki May's Wahala with novelist and critic Jessie Tu and poet and performer Geoff Forrester (whose alter ego, Tug Dumbly, also offers up a poem)

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54:05

Pip Williams and The Dictionary of Lost Words

The Bookshelf ·

2022/01/28

A special edition of The Bookshelf, with writer Pip Williams speaking to Kate about her career, research, year in Italy, and interest in the history of words and their visibility, leading to the novel The Dictionary of Lost Words (a conversation from the 2021 Brisbane Writers Festival, online).

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54:10

Summer Reads: Hannah Kent, Caleb Azumah Nelson,...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/01/21

Kate and Cassie read Hannah Kent's Devotion; RN's Daniel Browning reads Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water; novelist Rashida Murphy reads Sunjeev Sahota's China Room; and novelist Aravind Adiga on Australian fiction

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34:20

The Bookshelf that Made Me: Siri Hustvedt & Jennifer...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/01/20

Reading, writers, family, art and mentors in Siri Hustvedt's essay collection, Mothers, Fathers and Others; and dissipating ghosts, cities and stories in Jennifer Mills' The Airways

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54:09

Summer Reads: Patricia Lockwood, Ann Patchett, Simon...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/01/14

Kate and Cassie read Patricia Lockwood's No One is Talking About This; Eugen Bacon on Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Son of the Storm; a story from Ann Patchett's These Precious Days; Simon Winchester discussing Anthony Trollope in remote China; and Jay Kristoff on the books that shaped his latest, Empire of the Vampire

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28:35

The Bookshelf that Made Me: Tilly Lawless & Jon McGregor

The Bookshelf ·

2022/01/13

Tilly Lawless on her debut novel Nothing but My Body, and her reading inspiration; and Jon McGregor on aphasia and Antarctica, in his Lean Fall Stand

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