The Bookshelf
514 episodes — Page 7 of 11
The Book Club: reading Kazuo Ishiguro in the sun
May 7, 202155 min
Live from the Sydney Writers Festival with Anita Heiss, Rick Morton and Emily Maguire
Apr 30, 202154 min
Podcast Extra: General Sir Peter Cosgrove reads historical fiction and political biography
Apr 28, 202125 min
New books by Patricia Lockwood, Jacqueline Maley, Peace Adzo Medie and Marco Missiroli
Apr 23, 20211h 7m
Podcast extra: Maria Dahvana Headley and all that monstrous reading
Apr 21, 202129 min
New fiction from Ethan Hawke, Olivia Sudjic and Dirk Kurbjuweit
Apr 16, 202154 min
Podcast Extra: Steven Carroll on reading wartime surrender in the scandalous Story of O
Apr 14, 202132 min
New books by Haruki Murakami, Patricia Engel and Blair James
Apr 9, 202154 min
Podcast Extra: Fiona Mozley reads her way into London and Edinburgh
Apr 7, 202125 min
The Book Club: The Vietnamese diaspora and the aftermath of war
Apr 2, 202154 min
Podcast Extra: Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual and the books behind it
Mar 31, 202132 min
Trevor Shearston's The Beach Caves, Fiona Mozley's Hot Stew and what Caleb Azumah Nelson reads
Mar 26, 202158 min
Podcast Extra: Robert Jones Jr on James Baldwin and the other writers that have shaped him
Mar 24, 202125 min
New fiction from Edward St Aubyn, Steven Carroll and Lisa Harding
Mar 19, 202154 min
Podcast Extra: Daisy Buchanan is insatiable for books
Mar 17, 202125 min
Ella Baxter's New Animal, Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual & the Sydney Writers' Festival is back
Mar 12, 202153 min
Podcast Extra: Max Porter answers your questions
Mar 10, 202123 min
The Book Club: February — Art in fiction
Mar 5, 202154 min
Podcast Extra: Simon Winchester's Bookshelf
Mar 3, 202133 min
Reading Simon Winchester, Sarah J Maas, John Kinsella and Guillermo Martínez
Feb 26, 202156 min
Podcast Extra: What does Angie Thomas read?
Feb 24, 202125 min
New fiction by Caleb Azumah Nelson, Melissa Broder and Sònia Hernández
Feb 19, 202154 min
Podcast Extra: Andrew Pippos and the bookshelf that made Lucky's
Feb 17, 202120 min
On Robert Jones Jr's The Prophets, Una Mannion's A Crooked Tree, and a new translation of Beowulf
Feb 12, 202154 min
Podcast Extra: More on the writer Madeleine St John
Feb 9, 202123 min
The Book Club 2021 No 1: Work
Feb 5, 202154 min
On Anna North's Outlawed, Raven Leilani's Luster & Kevin Barry's That Old Country Music
Jan 29, 202154 min
Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing
Jan 22, 202154 min
Summer Bookshelf with novels by Malcolm Knox, Frances Cha & Garth Greenwell
Jan 15, 202154 min
Summer Bookshelf with novels by Aravind Adiga, Richard Flanagan and Maggie O'Farrell
Jan 8, 202154 min
Summer Bookshelf and The Dry on screen plus novels by Laura Jean McKay, Curtis Sittenfeld & Mieko Kawakami
Jan 1, 202154 min
Summer Bookshelf: The Rain Heron, Greenwood, A Theatre for Dreamers and Mayflies
Dec 25, 202054 min
The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 2)
Dec 18, 202055 min
The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 1)
Dec 11, 202056 min
Podcast Extra: Naomi Novik
Dec 8, 202015 min
Podcast Extra: Garth Nix
Dec 7, 202025 min
The Book Club No 8: Mining the past
Dec 4, 202059 min
Podcast Extra: Susanna Clarke
Nov 30, 202023 min
Maybe they're all aliens?
Nov 27, 202054 min
Podcast Extra: Lev Grossman
Nov 23, 202027 min
A film set, a glass heart, and the unclaimed dead
Nov 20, 202056 min
Podcast Extra: Graham Swift and the rough glittering world
Nov 16, 202027 min
A cafe, a shiver, a chase
Nov 13, 202055 min
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets
Nov 6, 20201h 0m
The Book Club No 7: On the Coast and in the Water
Oct 30, 202055 min
Tragedies, Sagas and Infinite Splendours
Oct 23, 202054 min
Vanishing body parts and toxic relationships
Oct 16, 202058 min
Podcast Extra: Andrew O'Hagan
Oct 13, 202027 min
A mythic quest and star-crossed love
Oct 9, 202054 min
Podcast Extra: Chris Riddell sharpens his pencil
Oct 6, 202039 min