The Bookshelf

Kate and Cassie discuss Louis de Bernières' So Much Life Left Over, Kate Atkinson's Transcription, Andrew Sean Greer's Still and Rebecca Lim's The Relic of the Blue Dragon, with writer Sam Twyford-Moore and academic Zora Simic.

Kate and Cassie are joined by lawyer and novelist Andreas Heger and publisher and writer Phillipa McGregor to discuss the latest books by Pat Barker and Patrick de Witt, while Morris Gleitzman tells Cassie about the Australian Reading Hour and the bookshelf that made him.

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with rather a lot of short stories, and the reader reviewers Roanna Gonsalves, Brett Evans and Michael Dulaney

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with reader Patrick Carey, editor of the Australian Book Review Peter Rose, writer and translator Tiffany Tsao and a whole lot of books.

Peter Corris was known as the Godfather of Australian crime. He wrote more than forty Cliff Hardy novels, as well as works of history, co-authored biography and many more (ninety books at least)

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by arts journalist Martin Portus, literary scholar Helen Groth and historian Clare Monagle to talk fiction.

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with novels about animals, sex and research (and a few other things)

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with crime writer Ann Cleeves, historian David Hunt, memoirist Vicki Laveau-Harvie and bookseller Jennifer Stephens - and a whole lot of revolutionary novels.

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with literary academic Nicole Moore and the Sydney Story Factory's Catherine Keenan on Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip, Chris Hammer's Scrublands and Gregory Day's A Sand Archive

Kate and Cassie disagree (again!) about Mario Vargas Llosa's The Neighbourhood, writers Bridie Jabour and Sheila Pham review debut novels by Libby Page and Sharlene Teo, and journo and novelist Tim Ayliffe reveals his crime and suspense filled bookshelves

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are at loggerheads this week over Tara Isabella Burton's Social Creature, and you'll hear from the American writer herself. Barry Hill reveals a career shaped by encounters with writers and writing, and Sally Seltman reviews two Australian novels.

Novelists Mireille Juchau and Susan Johnson join Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh to discuss Rachel Cusk's Kudos and Maria Tumarkin's Axiomatic; and Kim Scott reveals the bookshelf that shaped him

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with what Alexander McCall Smith reads (hint, there's a collection of poetry in his pocket), why Barbara Kingsolver reads at traffic lights, and Christopher Fowler on The Book of Forgotten Authors

Writers, readers and reviewers Michael Robotham, Robyn Annear, Antony Funnell, Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus join Kate Evans to talk books books books.

Kate and Cassie are joined by readers and reviewers, historian Stephen Gapps, novelist Peggy Frew and essayist Michael Dulaney.

English poet and children's book author A F Harrold reveals how libraries have shaped him; writers Melanie Cheng, Felicity Castagna and Claire G Coleman discuss how fiction might illuminate the most difficult aspects of our national life; and sci-fi and fantasy author Jay Kristoff reflects on the bookshelves that made him.

Never in the short history of The Bookshelf has there been so much loathing for a novel! Which is the book that will generate so much dislike and despair? You will need to listen to find out.

Kate and Cassie discuss Aminatta Forna's Happiness, Emily O'Grady's The Yellow House, Meena Kandasamy's When I Hit You, Joseph Cassara's The House of Impossible Beauties and Westwords — with Emily O'Grady, Chloë Cooper and Michael Campbell

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by George Williams on Raymond E Feist's King of Ashes, by Fiona Lowe on Kate Mosse's The Burning Chambers and by Lynne Malcolm on Lisa Genova's Every Note Played

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh have a great stack of books and readers to share with you: Christos Tsiolkas on Patrick White, Stuart Coupe on Irvine Welsh's Dead Men's Trousers, Eleanor Limprecht on Alicia Drake's I Love You Too Much and Jonathan Green on Meanjin's short fiction collection

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by journalist Stephen Romei as they disagree over Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, by novelist Suzanne Leal to discuss Jenny Ackland's Little Gods and David Peace's Patient X, and by academic and biographer Bernadette Brennan to ponder Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma.

What books will these three extraordinary writers offer up as influential titles on their own bookshelves? Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan and Tayari Jones step onto the stage to share the reading that has made them.

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by Maria Takolander and Tamara Neal to talk Laura Lindstedt's Oneiron, Madeline Miller's Circe, Bridie Jabour's The Way Things Should Be and Madeline Seys is along on Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by novelist Sandra Leigh Price and political scientist Shaun Crowe as they discuss Rodney Hall's A Stolen Season, Leïla Slimani's Lullaby, Imogen Hermes Gowar's The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, and Natasha Lester reveals the fashion-filled bookshelf that made her in light of her novel The Paris Seamstress.

Kate and Cassie are joined by reviewers Luke Stegemann, Sonya Voumard and Bri Lee as they discuss Gail Jones' The Death of Noah Glass, Antonio Muñoz Molina's Like a Fading Shadow, Åsne Seierstad's Two Sisters and Heidi Sopinka's The Dictionary of Animal Languages.