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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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What's the verdict on Sally Rooney's new novel...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/09/27

Many people have been awaiting the release of Intermezzo, the latest book by Irish writer Sally Rooney, which explores love, grief, growing up, playing chess, understanding and misunderstanding family...Kate and Cassie begin the show with this one, with additional input from millennial author Madeleine Gray. Also, under the sea with Richard Powers in his new novel Playground; and searching the American South with Gayl Jones in The Unicorn Woman, with guidance from historian Ethan

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0:54:37

French provocateur Michel Houellebecq + Olga...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/09/20

Novels from France, Poland and India – with politics, sanatoriums, automata and horror in the mix too. Kate and Cassie read French writer (and provocateur) Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation (but can they get to the end of the book? There’s the question); while Polish reader and publicist Anna O’Grady joins them to discuss Nobel Prize winning writer Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story; and academic, novelist and memoirist Kári Gislason joins them to review

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54:46

The rich and entitled are back but so are Olive...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/09/13

Sex parties, corruption and dark dark deeds in not-quite-Nigeria, in Akwaeke Emezi’s Little Rot; aspiration, real estate and misguided philanthropists in New York, in Rumaan Alam’s Entitlement, and ordinary people living extraordinary lives, and all those untold stories, in Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything. GUESTSGretchen Shirm, critic and writer whose books include the short story collection Having Cried Wolf and the novels Where the Light Falls and The Crying Room.Stephen

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54:06

Malcolm Knox's The First Friend: a black comedy set...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/09/06

A peripatetic hotel, a paddle steamer of dreams and a dastardly law firm, in Jock Serong’s Cherrywood; one of the 20th century’s top 10 all-star ‘leading’ murderers, and what it might mean to be close to him, in Malcolm Knox’s The First Friend; and spies, caves, lies and Neanderthals in Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake. BOOKS Malcolm Knox, The First Friend, Allen & Unwin Jock Serong, Cherrywood, Fourth Estate Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake, Jonathan Cape GUESTS Roanna Gonsalves,

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54:46

2024 mid-year review

The Bookshelf ·

2024/08/30

An overview of the books of the year so far, what’s coming up for the rest of the year, and the 'to be read' book pile of regret as Kate and Cassie confess all with bookseller Jon Page and literary interviewer and editor of The Monthly Michael Williams.BOOKS MENTIONED BY CASSIEPercival Everett, JamesCeridwen Dovey, Only the AstronautsIain Ryan, The StripGabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of TimeFrancis Spufford, Cahokia JazzElizabeth

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54:07

Vortex: a new novel from Rodney Hall, twice winner of...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/08/23

Stories of Northern Soul, pigs trotters in performance art and politics in the subtropical 1950s come to life in three new works of fiction including Vortex, the new novel from 88 year old Rodney Hall, twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award; Woo Woo, by another Australian writer, Ella Baxter; and Rare Singles, the latest from English writer and journalist Benjamin Myers.BOOKSRodney Hall, Vortex, PicadorElla Baxter, Woo Woo, Allen & UnwinBenjamin Myers, Rare Singles,

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54:06

Rita Bullwinkle's Headshot: a luminous debut that...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/08/16

Kate and Cassie read Rita Bullwinkle's Headshot, a luminous debut that follows eight teenage girl boxers in Reno, Nevada. Crime writer Michael Robotham discusses Chris Whitaker’s All the Colours of the Dark – a story with a one-eyed boy, missing children, and a character who may or may not be an hallucination, and a nod to True Crime and Australia’s dark history in Fiona McFarlane’s Highway 13, with critic Beejay Silcox.BOOKSRita Bullwinkel, Headshot, DB OriginalsFiona McFarlane,

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54:35

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024

The Bookshelf ·

2024/08/09

What does the 2024 Miles Franklin shortlist tell us about our shared imagination? Bernadette Brennan and Geordie Williamson join Kate and Cassie to examine the winner, Alexis Wright's epic novel Praiseworthy, and all the finalists for Australia’s most prestigious literary prize.BOOKSWINNER:Alexis Wright, Praiseworthy (Giramondo)REST OF SHORTLIST:Hossein Asgari, Only Sound Remains (Puncher & Wattmann)Jen Craig, Wall (Puncher & Wattmann)André Dao, Anam (Hamish

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54:06

Weird fiction writer China Miéville's surprising...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/08/01

Kate and Cassie discuss Choice by Booker-shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee, a bleak, powerful and viciously funny novel about a publisher at war with his industry and himself. Plus, guest critic Ailsa Piper on The Echoes by Miles Franklin winning author Evie Wyld...set between London and rural Australia it's part love story, part ghost story; and Bruce Isaacs on weird fiction novelist China Mievelle's The Book of Elsewhere, a genre-bending epic written in collaboration with

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54:06

Willy Vlautin's The Horse: drenched in twangy music...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/07/26

Award-winning U.S. author Willy Vlautin's The Horse is his poignant new novel about the life of a lonely country musician in Nevada and his chance encounter with a half blind horse. Plus, bookseller David Gaunt reviews Ammar Kalia's A Person Is a Prayer, one family's story of migration from Kenya and India to the UK; and Wellington based critic and curator Claire Mabey looks at Laurence Fearnley's At The Grand Glacier Hotel, which follows a stormy family holiday set on New

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54:06

Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs: emotionally...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/07/19

Kate Evans and Jonathan Green with guests Pip Williams and Sarah Bailey read Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs, Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword, Valeria Usala's A Woman in Sardinia and Jean-Baptiste del Amo's The Son of Man. Australian fiction, novels in translation, secrets and violence, cities and regions, queer love and emotional truths, and a hint of fantasy.BOOKSDylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs, PicadorLev Grossman, The Bright Sword, Del RayValeria Usala, A Woman in

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54:06

Awfully Rich: Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/07/12

The Bookshelf is a program for dedicated readers and those who wished they read more.

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54:06

Fairytales are at play in Julia Phillips' Bear

The Bookshelf ·

2024/07/05

The band is back together! Join Cassie and Kate as they head to an island off North America in Julia Phillips’ Bear, plus two Australian novels – Jessie Tu’s The Honeyeater and Finegan Kruckemeyer’s The End and Everything Before It.BOOKSJulia Phillips, Bear, ScribeJessie Tu, The Honeyeater, Allen & UnwinFinegan Kruckemeyer, The End and Everything Before It, TextGUESTSTom Wright, theatre writer and literary adaptor; Artistic Associate at Belvoir TheatreNicole Abadee, books

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54:06

Catherine McKinnon's To Sing of War takes us to PNG...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/06/28

Kate Evans is joined by guest host Richard Aedy to discuss Catherine McKinnon's To Sing of War, a novel of love, war and friendship. Plus, two debut novels... Big Time by Jordan Prosser, set in a not-too-distant future Australia where pop music is propaganda, and Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna, set during a heatwave in London as tensions and secrets come to a head over one life-changing weekend.BOOKSCatherine McKinnon, To Sing of War, Fourth EstateJordan Prosser, Big Time,

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54:04

A new fiction title from bestselling author Bruce Pascoe

The Bookshelf ·

2024/06/21

Kate Evans returns with guest reviewers to discuss Bruce Pascoe’s Imperial Harvest, an epic of brutality and imperialism; along with Jenny Ackland’s Hurdy Gurdy, a circus saga set in a near-future Australia; and Miranda July’s All Fours, which looks at one woman's quest for a very unique kind of freedom.BOOKSBruce Pascoe, Imperial Harvest, Melbourne BooksJenny Ackland, Hurdy Gurdy, Allen & UnwinMiranda July, All Fours, CanongateGUESTSBeejay Silcox, writer, critic and literary

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54:00

Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos, winner of the 2024...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/06/17

Cassie and Kate discuss Jenny Erpenbecks' Kairos (winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize) with critic Declan Fry - originally broadcast August 2023 when the book was first published; and interviews with writers A K Blakemore (The Glutton), Daniel Mason (North Woods) and Gretchen Shirm (The Crying Room) by Kate Evans.BOOKSJenny Erpenbeck, Kairos, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, GrantaA K Blakemore, The Glutton, GrantaDaniel Mason, North Woods, John

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54:06

In Parade Rachel Cusk blurs reality and fiction

The Bookshelf ·

2024/06/07

Cassie and Tom Wright read the Parade by Rachel Cusk, her first since 2018’s Kudos, the final part of the acclaimed Outline trilogy. Once again, Cusk questions the very nature of truth.James Ley joins to discuss Ceridwen Dovey’s new collection of short stories, Only the Astronauts, which takes us off-planet and into the “lives” of the objects that humans have sent into space.Gretchen Shirm reviews Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti, constructed of sentences culled from 10 years of

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54:04

An extraordinary time travel love story

The Bookshelf ·

2024/05/31

Cassie and Jonathan Green review The Ministry of Time by debut British-Cambodian novelist Kaliane Bradley, a heads up, it's brilliant.Michael Brissenden reviews Crooked Seeds by South African writer Karen Jennings, a crime mystery set in Cape Town.And Nicole Abadee looks at The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, a story that takes us to 1891 and a grim winter in a small mining town of immigrant Irish workers in the Rocky Mountains. Forbidden love strikes, and lives are changed

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53:56

An all-star panel from Sydney Writers' Festival: Paul...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/05/24

Cassie and Claire Nichols team up on stage at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival to grill some huge literary stars on their reading lives: Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, US bestseller Celeste Ng, and Australia’s Christos Tsoilkas.GUESTSPaul Lynch, internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels including the 2023 Booker Prize Winner Prophet SongCeleste Ng, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing

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54:06

New novels from bestselling authors Shankari...

The Bookshelf ·

2024/05/17

Cassie and Jonathan Green review Safe Haven by 2023 Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran, Table For Two by Amor Towles (author of A Gentleman In Moscow), and Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan of Crazy Rich Asians fame.

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