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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 Bookshelf and The Dry on screen plus novels by...

The Bookshelf ·

2021/01/01

On Laura Jean McKay, The Animals in that Country, Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham and Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs - and putting Jane Harper's The Dry on screen

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54:06

Summer Bookshelf: The Rain Heron, Greenwood, A...

The Bookshelf ·

2020/12/25

Some of the best books and discussions about them from 2020: on Robbie Arnott's The Rain Heron, Michael Christie's Greenwood and Polly Samson's A Theatre for Dreamers and Andrew O'Hagan on the Bookshelf that Made Him

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55:43

The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 2)

The Bookshelf ·

2020/12/18

Novelist Jock Serong, music writer and broadcaster Stuart Coupe and bookseller and literary judge Fiona Stager join Cassie and Kate for more book recommendations

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56:03

The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 1)

The Bookshelf ·

2020/12/11

Reading recommendations from Jessie Tu, Stephen Romei, Suzanne Leal, Kate and Cassie.

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15:53

Podcast Extra: Naomi Novik

The Bookshelf ·

2020/12/08

American fantasy writer Naomi Novik on her latest novel, A Deadly Education, and the Bookshelf that Made Her

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25:00

Podcast Extra: Garth Nix

The Bookshelf ·

2020/12/07

On fantasy foundational texts, finding books from childhood in booksales and libraries, and the lure of imaginary bookshops

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59:03

The Book Club No 8: Mining the past

The Bookshelf ·

2020/12/04

On Gail Jones' Our Shadows and Randolph Stow's The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea with guests writer Ailsa Piper and historian Frank Bongiorno

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23:06

Podcast Extra: Susanna Clarke

The Bookshelf ·

2020/11/30

Writer Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; Piranesi) with Kate Evans, on the bookshelf that shaped her, why statues are fascinating, and creating a world out of ruins and seawater

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54:03

Maybe they're all aliens?

The Bookshelf ·

2020/11/27

On Sayaka Murata's Earthlings, Ayad Akhtar's Homeland Elegies and Thomas McMullan's The Last Good Man

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27:12

Podcast Extra: Lev Grossman

The Bookshelf ·

2020/11/23

Fantasy writer and former literary critic Lev Grossman speaks to Kate Evans about his foundational texts and wider reading in fantasy and elsewhere; and they go on a magical train journey courtesy of his new children's novel, The Silver Arrow

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56:06

A film set, a glass heart, and the unclaimed dead

The Bookshelf ·

2020/11/20

On Philip Salom’s The Fifth Season, Tiffany McDaniel’s Betty and William Boyd’s Trio

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27:20

Podcast Extra: Graham Swift and the rough glittering...

The Bookshelf ·

2020/11/16

The author of Here We Are, Last Orders, Mothering Sunday, Waterland and so many more joins Kate Evans to talk reading, writing, influences and why a book he first read as a twenty year old was just so important

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55:33

A cafe, a shiver, a chase

The Bookshelf ·

2020/11/13

On Andrew Pippos’ Lucky’s, Kate Mildenhall’s The Mother Fault and Karen Wyld’s Where the Fruit Falls

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00:57

Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

The Bookshelf ·

2020/11/06

Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth, Don Delillo’s The Silence and Martin Amis’ Inside Story: A novel with critics Tegan Bennett Daylight and Geordie Williamson

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55:33

The Book Club No 7: On the Coast and in the Water

The Bookshelf ·

2020/10/30

Malcolm Knox’s Bluebird and Tim Winton’s Breath under scrutiny with surfwriter Stuart Nettle and documentary maker Johan Gabrielsson

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54:07

Tragedies, Sagas and Infinite Splendours

The Bookshelf ·

2020/10/23

On Sofie Laguna’s Infinite Splendours, Nardi Simpson’s Song of the Crocodile and Nicolas Mathieu’s And Their Children After Them with writers Sam Coley and Mykaela Saunders

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58:01

Vanishing body parts and toxic relationships

The Bookshelf ·

2020/10/16

Richard Flanagan's The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar, and Cassie meets bestselling author Ken Follett.

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27:55

Podcast Extra: Andrew O'Hagan

The Bookshelf ·

2020/10/13

Writer Andrew O’Hagan on autobiographical fiction, an old copy of Dickens’ David Copperfield, why J M Barrie’s Peter Pan is so important, and other books that have shaped him and his latest novel, Mayflies

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54:06

A mythic quest and star-crossed love

The Bookshelf ·

2020/10/09

Trent Dalton's All Our Shimmering Skies, Marilynne Robinson's Jack, and Craig Silvey for Me, Myshelf and I.

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39:47

Podcast Extra: Chris Riddell sharpens his pencil

The Bookshelf ·

2020/10/06

Chris Riddell is an illustrator, cartoonist and novelist. Here, he discusses collaboration, reading, influences, poetry and why he draws political cartoons instead of shouting at the radio

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