The Bookshelf
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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
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