The Bookshelf
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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
On Helen Garner, Jim Crace's The Melody, Charles Frazier's Varina, Nathaniel Rich's King Zeno, Kit de Waal's The Trick to Time & Danny Denton
Jun 8, 201853 min
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
Jun 1, 201853 min
Raymond E Feist's King of Ashes, Kate Mosse's The Burning Chambers and Lisa Genova's Every Note Played
May 25, 201853 min
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
May 18, 201853 min
On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
May 11, 201853 min
Cassie and Kate present the Bookshelf live from the Sydney Writers Festival with Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan and Tayari Jones
May 4, 201854 min
Laura Lindstedt's Oneiron, Madeline Miller's Circe, Bridie Jabour's The Way Things Should Be and Madeleine Seys on Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature
Apr 27, 201853 min
Rodney Hall's A Stolen Season, Leïla Slimani's Lullaby, Imogen Hermes Gowar's The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock and Natasha Lester's bookshelf that made her
Apr 20, 201853 min
Review discussions of 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
Apr 13, 201853 min
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
Apr 6, 201853 min
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
Mar 30, 201853 min
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson
Mar 23, 201853 min
Vale Peter Temple, Tim Winton's The Shepherd's Hut, Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone, Sarah Winman and Steven Camden's bookshelves
Mar 16, 201853 min
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
Mar 9, 201853 min
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
Mar 2, 201853 min
Ceridwen Dovey's In the Garden of the Fugitives; Emma Glass', Peach; C J Tudor's The Chalk Man; Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires
Feb 23, 201853 min
Shaun Prescott's The Town, Julian Barnes' The Only Story, Attica Locke's Bluebird Bluebird and Paul Lynch's bookshelf of inspiration.
Feb 16, 201853 min
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
Feb 9, 201853 min
Cassie and Kate on Gail Honeyman, Stanley Johnson and Tayari Jones
Feb 2, 201853 min
Kate and Cassie are joined by writers and critics Ashley Hay and Lev Grossman to discuss new fiction
Jan 26, 201853 min