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The Bookshelf

Arts EN ↓ 536 episoder

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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23. okt. 2026

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Robert Hillman's The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, Robyn Cadwallader's Book of Colours, Dervla McTiernan's The Rúin & Mick McCoy's What the Light Reveals 06.04.2018 53:52

Mediaeval historian Kimberley Knight and Sisters in Crime's Robyn Walton join Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh as they discuss four new books by Australian writers. Novels set in regional Victoria in the 1960s, England in the 1320s, in contemporary Ireland and inside Cold War suspicion. (Robert Hillman's The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, Robyn Cadwallader's Book of Colours, Dervla McTiernan's The...

Mark Brandi's Wimmera, Steven Camden's Nobody Real, Han Kang's The White Book, Holly Ringland's The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and reading Muriel Spark 30.03.2018 53:52

Mark Brandi wins the Indie Award for debut fiction for Wimmera; writer Cath Crowley reviews Steven Camden's Nobody Real; Kali Napier reviews Han Kang's The White Book; Cassie and Kate read Holly Ringland's The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart; and literary academic Susan Sheridan on Scottish writer Muriel Spark.

Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson 23.03.2018 53:52

Cassie and Kate read variations on the 1940s in Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair and Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers, with insights and expert commentary on these and other books from critics Nicole Abadee and Geordie Williamson and historian Frank Bongiorno. And there's some disagreement about whether everyone owns a book bag.

Vale Peter Temple, Tim Winton's The Shepherd's Hut, Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone, Sarah Winman and Steven Camden's bookshelves 16.03.2018 53:52

Fiction that takes on big ideas: Tim Winton's The Shepherd's Hut and Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone, with critics Mireille Juchau and Brett Evans

The Stella Prize shortlist, Danny Denton's The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, Dan Sheehan's Restless Souls and Marieke Krügel’s Look at Me 09.03.2018 53:52

Kate and Cassie are joined by chair of the judging panel for the Stella Prize, Fiona Stager, to reveal the shortlist; and writers Trent Jamieson and Robert Lukins reveal their cornerstone books and discuss new Irish fiction; while Kate and Cassie disagree about German novel Look at Me by Marieke Krügel.

Katherena Vermette's The Break, Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad, Stuart Turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and Michael Mohammed Ahmad's The Lebs 02.03.2018 53:51

Cassie and Kate are joined by writers Pamela Hart, Bri Lee and Tara June Winch to review new books by Katherena Vermette, Ahmed Saadawi, Stuart Turton and Michael Mohammed Ahmad.

Ceridwen Dovey's In the Garden of the Fugitives; Emma Glass', Peach; C J Tudor's The Chalk Man; Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires 23.02.2018 53:52

Cassie and Kate are joined by writer Krissy Kneen and criminal psychologist Tim Watson Munro to discuss new fiction from Emma Glass, Ceridwen Dovey and C J Tudor; and literary history with Caroline Fraser on Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House books.

Shaun Prescott's The Town, Julian Barnes' The Only Story, Attica Locke's Bluebird Bluebird and Paul Lynch's bookshelf of inspiration. 16.02.2018 53:52

At Lunar New Year, Chinese-Australian writer Isabelle Li shares her insights into China’s dynamic literary and genre fiction; and with a nod to Valentine’s Day, she reviews Julian Barnes’ new novel, The Only Story. Crime writer Aoife Clifford reveals her past, as a shelver at a supermarket in regional Australia, feeding into the discussion of Shaun Prescott’s surreal novel, The Town, while also re...

Cassie and Kate on A J Finn's The Woman in the Window, Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God, forty years of the Australian Book Review and Claire Tomalin's A Life of My Own 09.02.2018 53:52

Kate and Cassie discuss A J Finn's bestselling thriller The Woman in the Window, and are also joined by novelist Catherine McKinnon to talk Louise Erdrich's chilling and funny dystopian Future Home of the Living God, by editor Peter Rose to talk forty years of fiction and the Australian Book Review, and literary biographer Claire Tomalin on her memoir A Life of My Own and an entire life shaped by...

Cassie and Kate on Gail Honeyman, Stanley Johnson and Tayari Jones 02.02.2018 53:52

Kate and Cassie are joined by writer Roanna Gonsalves and political journalist Dennis Atkins as they discuss Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Stanley Johnson's Kompromat, Tayari Jones An American Marriage and twitter bookclub #TheDarkisRising

Kate and Cassie are joined by writers and critics Ashley Hay and Lev Grossman to discuss new fiction 26.01.2018 53:52

Summer reading and reviews of Peter Carey's A Long Way from Home, Chloe Benjamin's The Immortalists, Naomi Alderman's The Power, John Green's Turtles All the Way Down