The Bookshelf
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The Book Club No 6: Italy in translation
Oct 2, 202054 min
Podcast Extra: Sue Miller
Sep 29, 202024 min
Standing on the bridge, wrong side of the rail
Sep 25, 202053 min
Podcast Extra: Maria Lewis
Sep 22, 202029 min
Slipping between worlds and cities, in history, fiction and fantasy
Sep 18, 202057 min
Podcast Extra: Meg Rosoff
Sep 15, 202026 min
Podcast Extra: Christopher Paolini
Sep 14, 202023 min
Podcast Extra: Sarah Moss & Ian McGuire
Sep 13, 202035 min
Imagined taxonomies of life, love, death and memory
Sep 11, 202054 min
Podcast Extra: Raymond E Feist
Sep 8, 202021 min
Podcast Extra: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
Sep 7, 202022 min
Book Club No 5: Speculative Fiction and N K Jemisin’s The City we Became
Sep 4, 202053 min
Podcast Extra: Kester Grant
Sep 1, 202022 min
Podcast Extra: Nicholas Shakespeare
Aug 31, 202029 min
A tricky nemesis or two, the past, and a damp holiday camp
Aug 28, 202056 min
Poisonous plants, talking rabbits, and a roadtrip of tears
Aug 21, 202054 min
Thrillers, wars and labyrinths spiral through fiction
Aug 14, 202053 min
Family secrets and the approach of General Winter in three new Australian novels
Aug 7, 202054 min
The Book Club No 4: Tara June Winch's The Yield and Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career
Jul 31, 202054 min
Creatures, sisters and relationships in fiction
Jul 24, 202054 min
A note in a forest, a train on fire, a gothic mood
Jul 17, 202054 min
History, fiction and plastic surgery
Jul 10, 202056 min
The Book Club No 3: Crime, thrillers, and Lawrence Wright’s The End of October
Jul 3, 20201h 0m
Pod Extra: Poetry and Music
Jul 1, 202053 min
The discomfort of grief and memory
Jun 26, 202053 min
Reading love and tragedy in Jamaica, Trinidad and India
Jun 19, 202057 min
Race, apocalypse and robots
Jun 12, 202054 min
The Book Club No 2: Joan London’s The Golden Age & Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus
Jun 5, 202058 min
A bird made of rain, a girl made of plantain, a family made of loss
May 29, 20201h 2m
What If, said the writer, What If?
May 22, 202053 min
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)
May 15, 202059 min
A fossilised penguin walked into a bar (and other stories)
May 8, 20201h 2m
The Book Club No 1: Come on, join our Book Club
May 1, 202053 min
What did that dingo just say to me? And other adventures in fiction
Apr 24, 202054 min
What lives from books? What drama?
Apr 17, 202053 min
How to read Shakespeare's family
Apr 10, 202054 min
These books are edged with gold
Apr 3, 202054 min
Reading in isolation? We’ve got you covered
Mar 27, 202057 min
Novels from Poland, Norway and Crescent City
Mar 20, 202054 min
Fiction that takes on the world
Mar 13, 20201h 20m
'The dice is shaken in a bone cup,' in Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light
Mar 6, 202054 min
In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage
Feb 28, 202054 min
In which we give Tyson Yunkaporta a book that's too good
Feb 21, 202054 min
Novels by Anne Enright, Aravind Adiga and Kiley Reid
Feb 14, 202054 min
New books by Carmen Maria Machado, Evie Wyld and Emma Forrest
Feb 7, 202057 min
Novels by Eimear McBride, Romesh Gunesekera and Benjamin Myers
Jan 31, 202058 min
New books by Garth Greenwell, Isabel Allende and Jeanine Cummins
Jan 24, 20201h 0m
Summer reads from India, Russia, Japan and the Amazon
Jan 17, 202053 min
When reading is gothic, digital or just plain hard
Jan 10, 202053 min
Begin your reading year with Peter Goldsworthy, Sarah Bailey and Anna Krien
Jan 3, 202053 min