The Bookshelf
535 episodes — Page 7 of 11
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
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