The Bookshelf
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On Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me and Joanne Harris's The Strawberry Thief, and the bookshelves of Caro Llewellyn and Dervla McTiernan
Apr 19, 201954 min
On Siri Hustvedt's Memories of the Future, Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive, the Stella Prize and the reading habits of Jenny Brockie and Sam Twyford-Moore
Apr 12, 201953 min
On Max Porter's Lanny, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Dave Eggers' The Parade and Katherine Kovacic's Bookshelf
Apr 5, 201954 min
Novels by Andrea Goldsmith, Sarah Moss, Niviaq Korneliussen, Felicity McLean and José Luís Peixoto
Mar 29, 201954 min
On Leah Kaminsky's The Hollow Bones, Ben Marcus's Notes from the Fog, Julie Keys, The Artist’s Portrait, Katherine Kovacic, Painting in the Shadows and Andrea Goldsmith on books
Mar 22, 201954 min
On Mark Brandi's The Rip, Dervla McTiernan's The Scholar, Leïla Slimani's Adèle and Mohammed Hanif's Red Birds
Mar 15, 201954 min
On Carrie Tiffany's Exploded View, Peggy Frew's Islands, Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six and the bookshelf that made Karen Viggers
Mar 8, 201954 min
On Melissa Harrison's All Among the Barley, Nana Kwama Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black and Emiliano Monge's Among the Lost
Mar 1, 201954 min
On Sigrid Nunez's The Friend, Will Dean’s Red Snow and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers
Feb 22, 201954 min
Reading Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction and Delphine de Vigan's Loyalties plus the bookshelves of Lynda La Plante and Ferenc Barnás
Feb 15, 201954 min
On Marlon James' Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Debra Adelaide's Zebra, Tessa Hadley's Late in the Day and what's on David Stratton's bookshelf
Feb 8, 201954 min
On Caoilinn Hughes' Orchid & the Wasp, Steven Carroll's The Year of the Beast, John Lanchester's The Wall and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result
Feb 1, 201954 min
On Summer reading and Ben Okri's The Freedom Artist, Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities and Søren Sveistrup's The Chestnut Man
Jan 25, 201953 min
What Morris Gleitzman read on the factory floor, being amanuensis to Will Self, talking to Sofie Laguna, and a bit of Finnish Weird
Jan 18, 201954 min
Are you a rereader? And other thoughts for a Summer Bookshelf
Jan 11, 201954 min
Do you have book-shaped New Year's reading resolutions?
Jan 4, 201954 min
If you dog-ear your books, you're part of a long tradition
Dec 28, 201854 min
Summer reading with Tayari Jones' An American Marriage, Peter Cochrane's The Making of Martin Sparrow and talking to Tara Westover about her memoir Educated
Dec 21, 201854 min
Podcast extra edition: with Viv Albertine, Jessie Burton and Jorge Carrion
Dec 19, 201856 min
Best reads of the year from Stuart Coupe, Nicole Abadee, Trent Jamieson and Cassie & Kate
Dec 14, 201854 min
What are the best books Trent Dalton, Shaun Prescott and Amelia Lush have read this year?
Dec 7, 201853 min
Reading Sydney Noir, finding plague pits in the backyard with Minette Walters, Anne Summers on fiction and new journalism and Sally Rippin's bookshelf
Dec 5, 201850 min
On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
Nov 30, 201854 min
New fiction from Patrick Gale, Minette Walters, Rick Gekoski and Amitava Kumar
Nov 23, 201854 min
Podcast Extra edition: with Fiona Wright, Kimberley Knight, Stephanie Bishop and Moreno Giovannoni
Nov 20, 201836 min
On Anna Burns' Milkman, Esi Edugyan's Washington Black and Philip Teir's The Summer House
Nov 16, 201854 min
RN Armistice 100 The Bookshelf podcast extra: On Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That and a coda for Vera Brittain
Nov 10, 201834 min
RN Armistice 100: Australian WWI fiction, Indian writing & Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth
Nov 9, 201853 min
New fiction from Andrew Miller, Anne Tyler and Victor LaValle
Nov 2, 201853 min
On Krissy Kneen's Wintering, Les Zig's August Falling, Margaret Morgan's The Second Cure, Ilka Tampke's Songwoman and more
Oct 26, 201853 min
On Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore, Sarah Perry's Melmoth and Kristina Olsson's own bookshelf
Oct 19, 201853 min
On Kristina Olsson's Shell, Markus Zusak's Bridge of Clay and Prayaag Akbar's Leila
Oct 12, 201853 min
Reading habits, influences and recommendations from Australian novelists Emma Viskic, Melissa Lucashenko, Chris Hammer and Christian White
Oct 5, 201853 min
On books by J M Coetzee, Kate Morton, Sebastian Faulks, Rebecca O'Connor and John Connell
Sep 28, 201853 min
New novels from Louis de Bernières, Kate Atkinson, Andrew Sean Greer and Rebecca Lim
Sep 21, 201853 min
On Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls, Patrick de Witt's French Exit and the Australian Reading Hour
Sep 14, 201853 min
Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman
Sep 7, 201853 min
On Sally Rooney's Normal People and Stephanie Bishop's Man Out of Time (just for starters)
Aug 31, 201853 min
Vale Crimewriter Peter Corris: Cliff Hardy has made his exit
Aug 30, 201815 min
On Anna Seghers' The Seventh Cross, Tiffany Tsao's Under Your Wings and books by Edward St Aubyn and Roland Schimmelpfennig
Aug 24, 201853 min
On Melissa Broder's The Pisces, Audrey Schulman's Theory of Bastards and V S Naipaul - with writers Felicity Castagna, Margo Lanagan and Khalid Warsame
Aug 17, 201853 min
On crime writer Ann Cleeves, Laura Elizabeth Woollett's Beautiful Revolutionary, Simon Mawer's Prague Spring and A People's History of the Vampire Uprising
Aug 10, 201853 min
On Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip, Chris Hammer's Scrublands and Gregory Day's A Sand Archive
Aug 3, 201853 min
On Mario Vargas Llosa, Libby Page's The Lido, Sharlene Teo's Ponti and Tim Ayliffe's The Greater Good
Jul 27, 201853 min
On Tara Isabella Burton's Social Creature, Barry Hill's Reason and Lovelessness, Natasha Lester's The Paris Seamstress and Sunni Overend's The Rules of Backyard Croquet
Jul 20, 201853 min
On Rachel Cusk's Kudos, Maria Tumarkin's Axiomatic and Kim Scott's bookshelf
Jul 13, 201853 min
Barbara Kingsolver, Alexander McCall Smith and why some novelists disappear
Jul 6, 201853 min
On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
Jun 29, 201853 min
On Peter Cochrane's The Making of Martin Sparrow, Willy Vlautin's Don't Skip Out on Me, Meg Wolitzer's The Female Persuasion and Sally Seltmann's bookshelf
Jun 22, 201853 min
Poet A F Harrold; Claire G Coleman, Melanie Cheng and Felicity Castagna telling 'home truths' through fiction; and SF writer Jay Kristoff
Jun 15, 201853 min