The Bookshelf
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Summer Reads: James Ellroy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Guillermo Martinez and Charlotte McConaghy
Kate and Cassie on James Ellroy's Widespread Panic; Debra Oswald on Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts; Robert Gott on Guillermo Martinez' The Oxford Brotherhood and Charlotte McConaghy with the Bookshelf that Made Me (and her book, Once There Were Wolves)
Jan 7, 202254 min
The Bookshelf that Made Me: R W R Mcdonald & Jacqueline Bublitz
Crime writers R W R McDonald (The Nancys, Nancy Business) and Jacqueline Bublitz (Before you Knew My Name) on the books that they are writing against, in concert with, inspired by, and so on (it's a complicated business).
Jan 6, 202228 min
Summer Reading: a wild party, Beowulf, and Gillian Mears
Biographer Bernadette Brennan on why we should read and know Australian writer Gillian Mears; music writer Mark Mordue on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Malibu Rising, and mediaevalist Louise D'Arcens on a new translation of Beowulf
Dec 31, 202154 min
The Bookshelf that Made Me: Colm Tóibín and Emily Gale
A fictional biography of German Nobel Prize winning writer Thomas Manne (and his extraordinary family) by Irish writer Colm Tóibín, with The Magician; and a roadtrip across America in Emily Gale's Wild Abandon. But what do these writers read?
Dec 30, 202128 min
Summer Reading: Jane Austen, Joan Silber, Kevin Barry and Elizabeth Strout
Dec 24, 202154 min
The Bookshelf That Made Me: Sarah Winman and Nick Earls
Dec 23, 202128 min
The Bookshelf That Made Me: Ken Follett, Rose Tremain, Amie Kaufman & Jaclyn Moriarty
Dec 17, 20211h 0m
Best Reads 2021 Part 2: General Adult Fiction
Dec 10, 202154 min
Claudia Karvan and the Books that Made Us: Pod Extra
Dec 8, 202120 min
The Book Club: John Hughes' The Dogs + Kate Grenville's The Secret River
Dec 3, 202154 min
Classic Australian Novels - Alexis Wright's Carpentaria
Nov 30, 202121 min
Classic Australian Novels - Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang
Nov 30, 202137 min
Classic Australian Novels - Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish
Nov 30, 202113 min
Classic Australian Novels - Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel
Nov 30, 202116 min
Classic Australian Novels - Helen Garner's Monkey Grip
Nov 30, 202116 min
Classic Australian Novels - Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance
Nov 30, 202124 min
Classic Australian Novels - Kate Grenville's The Secret River
Nov 30, 202127 min
Best Reads 2021 Part 1: Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
Nov 26, 202154 min
On Christos Tsiolkas' 7 ½, Vietnamese smoky ghosts & a helluva book
Nov 19, 202153 min
Behemoths, Novellas and Essays: reading recommendations
Nov 12, 202153 min
The Book Club: Amor Towles' The Lincoln Highway + Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Nov 5, 202154 min
Adam Liaw and Hannah Kent: Star Reviewers #4
Oct 29, 202157 min
Geraldine Hakewill and Graeme Simsion: Star Reviewers #3
Oct 22, 202154 min
Tim Rogers and Pip Williams: Star Reviewers #2
Oct 15, 202153 min
Marta Dusseldorp and John Safran: Star Reviewers #1
Oct 8, 20211h 2m
The Book Club: George Eliot's Middlemarch + Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle
Oct 1, 202154 min
Did you hear the one about the obscenity trial?
Sep 24, 202153 min
'Uneasy, Ambiguous and Strange': Why rewrite Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann?
Sep 17, 202157 min
Yes, we are reviewing Sally Rooney's new novel
Sep 10, 202154 min
The Book Club: On Memory
Sep 3, 202154 min
How to read like an Australian writer
Aug 27, 202155 min
Why you should read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (and meet his feistiest character)
Aug 20, 202153 min
Wolves, ghosts and a great flood: scary things in books
Aug 13, 202154 min
Outraged tweeters, miniature soldiers and the flooded canals of Venice
Aug 6, 202153 min
The Book Club: Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth & the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist
Jul 30, 202154 min
Three novels of seclusion: by Mark Brandi, Sunjeev Sahota, Patrick McGrath
Jul 23, 202156 min
The deliberately depraved and dissolute worlds of James Ellroy and Lisa Taddeo
Jul 16, 202157 min
Podcast Extra: More Musical Mayhem with Taylor Jenkins Reid and Dawnie Walton
Jul 14, 202148 min
The Book Club: Turn up the Music!
Jul 9, 202157 min
Can't Travel? Here's a collection of books that will transport you
Jul 2, 202154 min
A party to end all parties, a stranded whale, musical words and a train: what to read this week
Jun 25, 202154 min
A shrinking lake, a circus of wonders, and a baby: novels to make you feel and think
Jun 18, 20211h 9m
Reading Jane Austen from the 1940s until now (and other adventures in reading and reviewing)
Jun 11, 202154 min
The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith
Jun 4, 202154 min
Podcast Extra: Patricia Highsmith's biographer answers your questions
May 31, 202110 min
Reading Western Sydney, a hot country town & fantasy Africa remade
May 28, 202154 min
Ern Malley Rides Again! Writes, we meant writes
May 21, 202158 min
Podcast Extra: Reading the world in Spinoza's Overcoat
May 19, 202130 min
Earwax, kidnappings and an octopus god
May 14, 202154 min
Podcast Extra: Sujata Massey and a woman lawyer in India in the 1920s
May 12, 202125 min