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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: James Ellroy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Guillermo...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/01/07

Kate and Cassie on James Ellroy's Widespread Panic; Debra Oswald on Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts; Robert Gott on Guillermo Martinez' The Oxford Brotherhood and Charlotte McConaghy with the Bookshelf that Made Me (and her book, Once There Were Wolves)

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28:36

The Bookshelf that Made Me: R W R Mcdonald &...

The Bookshelf ·

2022/01/06

Crime writers R W R McDonald (The Nancys, Nancy Business) and Jacqueline Bublitz (Before you Knew My Name) on the books that they are writing against, in concert with, inspired by, and so on (it's a complicated business).

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54:06

Summer Reading: a wild party, Beowulf, and Gillian Mears

The Bookshelf ·

2021/12/31

Biographer Bernadette Brennan on why we should read and know Australian writer Gillian Mears; music writer Mark Mordue on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Malibu Rising, and mediaevalist Louise D'Arcens on a new translation of Beowulf

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28:36

The Bookshelf that Made Me: Colm Tóibín and Emily Gale

The Bookshelf ·

2021/12/30

A fictional biography of German Nobel Prize winning writer Thomas Manne (and his extraordinary family) by Irish writer Colm Tóibín, with The Magician; and a roadtrip across America in Emily Gale's Wild Abandon. But what do these writers read?

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54:06

Summer Reading: Jane Austen, Joan Silber, Kevin Barry...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/12/24

A new interview with Elizabeth Strout about Oh, William! and the Bookshelf that Made Her; and favourite review discussions from the year about Jane Austen, Joan Silber and Kevin Barry with readers Ruth Wilson and Michael McGirr

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28:36

The Bookshelf That Made Me: Sarah Winman and Nick Earls

The Bookshelf ·

2021/12/23

Writers and their bookshelves. Sarah Winman's Still Life moves between England and Florence, while Nick Earls' Empires travels from Brisbane to Alaska, London, Vienna and Hong Kong. But what are the books that shaped these novels and these writers?

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00:32

The Bookshelf That Made Me: Ken Follett, Rose...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/12/17

What are the books that have shaped these writers and (in particular) their latest works? Ken Follett, Rose Tremaine, Amie Kaufman & Jaclyn Moriarty

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54:05

Best Reads 2021 Part 2: General Adult Fiction

The Bookshelf ·

2021/12/10

Reading recommendations from writer and critic Beejay Silcox, crime writer Christian White and memoirist Lech Blaine. What are the books they have especially admired this year?

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20:59

Claudia Karvan and the Books that Made Us: Pod Extra

The Bookshelf ·

2021/12/08

Actor Claudia Karvan speaks to Kate Evans about her reading life and the Books That Made Us

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54:04

The Book Club: John Hughes' The Dogs + Kate...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/12/03

Reading John Hughes' The Dogs and Kate Grenville's The Secret River with historian David Hunt and writer and philosopher Michael McGirr

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21:02

Classic Australian Novels - Alexis Wright's Carpentaria

The Bookshelf ·

2021/11/30

Introducing Classic Australian Novels. A collection of interviews from the ABC Archives with Australian authors about their most significant work. In 2007 Alexis Wright won the Miles Franklin Award for her epic novel Carpentaria, set in and around the mythical town of Desperance in Queensland’s Gulf Country.

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37:55

Classic Australian Novels - Peter Carey's True...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/11/30

Introducing Classic Australian Novels. A collection of interviews from the ABC Archives with Australian authors about their most significant work. In True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey took a mythic Australian story and turned it into a Booker Prize winning novel.

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13:46

Classic Australian Novels - Richard Flanagan's...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/11/30

Introducing Classic Australian Novels. A collection of interviews from the ABC Archives with Australian authors about their most significant work. With his first two novels Richard Flanagan had already garnered a reputation as great author. But then in 2001 the Tasmanian writer consolidated his literary reputation, and his gift for great titles, with Gould's Book of Fish.

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16:00

Classic Australian Novels - Michelle de Kretser's...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/11/30

Introducing Classic Australian Novels. A collection of interviews from the ABC Archives with Australian authors about their most significant work. The politics and philosophy of tourism are at the core of Michelle de Kretser’s book Questions of Travel which charts the lives of two characters living worlds apart.

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16:41

Classic Australian Novels - Helen Garner's Monkey Grip

The Bookshelf ·

2021/11/30

Introducing Classic Australian Novels. A collection of interviews from the ABC Archives with Australian authors about their most significant work. Monkey Grip ushered in a new voice in Australian Literature. Released in 1977 it was Helen Garner’s first novel and the first time Australians had read such a frank account of bohemian life in Melbourne's inner north.

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24:00

Classic Australian Novels - Kim Scott's That Deadman...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/11/30

Introducing Classic Australian Novels. A collection of interviews from the ABC Archives with Australian authors about their most significant work. That Deadman Dance was published in 2010 and is the third novel from Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott. Set in the Western Australian whaling port of Albany in the early 1800's it's an exploration of culture, first impressions, and the so called 'friendly frontier'.

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27:21

Classic Australian Novels - Kate Grenville's The...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/11/30

Introducing Classic Australian Novels. A collection of interviews from the ABC Archives with Australian authors about their most significant work. Kate Grenville's The Secret River released in 2005 became an instant classic, inspiring a sequel, a television series, and a theatre production.

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54:05

Best Reads 2021 Part 1: Middle Grade and Young Adult...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/11/26

Reading recommendations from writers Emily Gale and Tristan Bancks (both of whom write for both teens and younger readers); and the Books That Made Us Youth Fiction Prize. (Part 2 of our best reads recommendation on 10 December)

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53:57

On Christos Tsiolkas' 7 ½, Vietnamese smoky ghosts &...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/11/19

On Christos Tsiolkas' 7 ½: A Novel, Violet Kupersmith's Build your House Around my Body and Jason Mott's Hell of a Book with comedian and writer Matt Okine and writer and producer Sheila Ngọc Phạm

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53:58

Behemoths, Novellas and Essays: reading recommendations

The Bookshelf ·

2021/11/12

Reading Polish Nobel Prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob and Marisa Fazio's novella Piazza Garibaldi with writers Amanda Lohrey and Bram Presser; and novelist and essayist Ann Patchett on These Precious Days and the bookshelf that shaped her

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