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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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54:05

A party to end all parties, a stranded whale, musical...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/06/25

Kate and Cassie are joined this week by poet and music writer Mark Mordue, singer-songwriter Darren Hanlon and Music Show colleague Andrew Ford; and the books discussed are Taylor Jenkins Reid's Malibu Rising, Kate Sawyer's The Stranding and Helen Oyeyemi's Peaces - with a side serving of music on the page.

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09:21

A shrinking lake, a circus of wonders, and a baby:...

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2021/06/18

Novelist Meg Mason (Sorrow and Bliss) and journalist Michael Dulaney join Cassie and Kate as they discuss Briohny Doyle's Echolalia and Angelike Schrobsdorff's You Are Not Like Other Mothers; and English writer Elizabeth MacNeal reveals the books and ideas that shaped Circus of Wonders

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54:06

Reading Jane Austen from the 1940s until now (and...

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2021/06/11

Kate and Cassie are joined by reviewer Dr Ruth Wilson, whose PhD on Jane Austen and education was awarded last year, when she was 88 years old. Together, they read Joan Silber's Secrets of Happiness and Alice Pung's One Hundred Days

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54:28

The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

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2021/06/04

Crime writer Michel Robotham and playwright Joanna Murray Smith join Kate and Cassie to discuss the work of Patricia Highsmith, high priestess of dark psychological thrillers. With cameos by Highsmith herself, her biographer Richard Bradford, crime writer and singer Jane Clifton, and featuring critiques from members of the ABC Book Club Facebook Group

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10:47

Podcast Extra: Patricia Highsmith's biographer...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/05/31

Ahead of this week's RN Book Club on Patricia Highsmith, her biographer Richard Bradford answers questions from readers and members of the ABC Book Club Facebook Group. An intriguing woman, and a writer who places you inside the perspective of her dark and disquieting characters

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54:05

Reading Western Sydney, a hot country town & fantasy...

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2021/05/28

Kate and Cassie read Michael Mohammed Ahmad's The Other Half of You, Cassandra Austin's Like Mother and Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Son of the Storm with writers Monica Dux and Eugen Bacon

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58:33

Ern Malley Rides Again! Writes, we meant writes

The Bookshelf ·

2021/05/21

Ern Malley was the poet at the centre of Australia's most famous literary hoaxes: an invented poet, supposedly discovered by his sister, Ethel. Well, Ethel has been revived and rediscovered, made solid by the novelist Stephen Orr in his Sincerely, Ethel Malley. Kate and Cassie are joined by Debra Oswald and Gavin Williams as they read this and new novels by Jhumpa Lahiri and Imbolo Mbue

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30:14

Podcast Extra: Reading the world in Spinoza's Overcoat

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2021/05/19

Writer and translator Subhash Jaireth tracks his life through both countries and bookshelves, from India to the (then) Soviet Union and onto Australia, with many countries and literary traditions in between. He speaks to Kate Evans about where reading and books have taken him.

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54:05

Earwax, kidnappings and an octopus god

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2021/05/14

Writer Krissy Kneen and podcaster Mike Williams join Cassie and Kate as they discuss Rahul Raina's How to Kidnap the Rich, Jamie Marina Lau's Gunk Baby and Jasper Gibson's The Octopus Man. An Indian satire, a contemporary not-quite-dystopian shopping centre, and following the voice of a tentacled deity. Three new works of fiction.

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25:58

Podcast Extra: Sujata Massey and a woman lawyer in...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/05/12

India's first woman lawyer practiced, against the odds, in the 1920s. Novelist Sujata Massey used that woman as inspiration for her fictional character, Perveen Mistry, amateur sleuth in a country bursting with change. Sujata Massey speaks to Kate Evans about her own writing and the bookshelf that shaped her. Reading recommendations abound.

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55:00

The Book Club: reading Kazuo Ishiguro in the sun

The Bookshelf ·

2021/05/07

Novelist Bram Presser and comparative literature academic Rebecca Suter join Kate and Cassie to talk about Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel, Klara and the Sun, in light of all his other novels. And yes, the quality of light, shining down on this Artificial Friend - Robot Girl - is one of the many things at stake in this bookish discussion

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54:06

Live from the Sydney Writers Festival with Anita...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/04/30

It's been a long time since Kate and Cassie have seen either writers or readers in person, but here we all are . . .

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25:28

Podcast Extra: General Sir Peter Cosgrove reads...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/04/28

Fighting aliens with bows arrows, reading the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and why he's drawn to historical fiction. Former Governor General Peter Cosgrove speaks to Kate Evans about books, reading, history, political biography and writing memoir

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07:56

New books by Patricia Lockwood, Jacqueline Maley,...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/04/23

Kate and Cassie discuss Patricia Lockwood's No One is Talking About This, Peace Adzo Medie's His Only Wife and Marco Missiroli's Fidelity with writer Sefakor Zikpi and journalist Penelope Green, while Jacqueline Maley reflects on the books that sit beside her own new novel, The Truth About Her

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29:15

Podcast extra: Maria Dahvana Headley and all that...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/04/21

Maria Dahvana Headley knows how to write - and read - monsters. And in doing both she remakes them, as she explains to Kate Evans

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54:06

New fiction from Ethan Hawke, Olivia Sudjic and Dirk...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/04/16

Fame, fate, a fair bit of love lost and serial killers in this week's edition of The Bookshelf.

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32:14

Podcast Extra: Steven Carroll on reading wartime...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/04/14

Novelist Steven Carroll speaks with Kate Evans about both the books and publishing history imbedded in his novel O

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54:06

New books by Haruki Murakami, Patricia Engel and...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/04/09

Language specialist Tiger Webb joins Kate while Cassie is away this week, to discuss Blair James' Bernard and Pat, Patricia Engel's Infinite Country and Haruki Murakami's short story collection First Person Singular - with novelist Ronnie Scott and scholar Dominique Hecq

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25:04

Podcast Extra: Fiona Mozley reads her way into London...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/04/07

Fiona Mozley's latest novel, Hot Stew, buzzes and rumbles with history, change, gangsters and sex workers. She speaks to Kate Evans about the books that have shaped her

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54:07

The Book Club: The Vietnamese diaspora and the...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/04/02

Reading Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Committed and Nam Le's The Boat with Dai Le and Nathalie Nguyen

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