The Bookshelf
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Fantasy with Samantha Shannon, Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
Dec 27, 201953 min
Book recommendations from Kate Forsyth, Heather Rose and Alex McClintock
Dec 20, 201953 min
The Bookshelf's best books of 2019
Dec 13, 201953 min
New fiction from Ben Lerner, Marcy Dermansky and Curdella Forbes
Dec 6, 201954 min
Pod Extra: Poet Lemn Sissay and the many foster children of literature
Dec 4, 201955 min
Pod Extra: Charlotte Wood's The Weekend
Dec 3, 201945 min
Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn
Nov 29, 201953 min
New books from Julian Barnes, Petina Gappah and Niall Williams
Nov 22, 201953 min
André Aciman's Find Me, Inez Baranay's Turn Left at Venus and Zimbabwean literature
Nov 15, 20191h 1m
Reading Los Angeles with Michael Connelly plus new Australian fiction
Nov 8, 201954 min
New books by Paul Lynch, Erin Morgenstern and Mary Costello
Nov 1, 201959 min
On Christos Tsiolkas' Damascus, Helen Phillips' The Need and the books on Chris Hammer's bookshelf
Oct 25, 201954 min
The Bookshelf at the State Library of NSW
Oct 18, 201958 min
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls
Oct 15, 20191h 0m
Political satire, historical fiction and short stories
Oct 11, 201956 min
The bookshelves of Jessie Burton, Corey White and Dominic Smith
Oct 8, 201956 min
New novels from Philip Pullman, Favel Parrett and Nino Haratischvili
Oct 4, 201953 min
New books by Edna O'Brien, Etgar Keret and Benjamin Myers
Sep 27, 20191h 0m
On Ann Patchett's The Dutch House, Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and Emma Donoghue's Akin
Sep 20, 201954 min
On Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, Elizabeth Strout's Olive, Again, Peter Goldsworthy's Minotaur and Alvydas Šlepikas's In the Shadow of Wolves
Sep 13, 201953 min
New fiction from Deborah Levy, Andrew McGahan and Claire G Coleman
Sep 6, 201953 min
On Salman Rushdie's Quichotte, Lucy Treloar's Wolfe Island, Lisa Taddeo's Three Women and the state of Oz crime
Aug 30, 201953 min
New fiction from Ben Hobson, Carolina Setterwall and Kate Forsyth plus an exhortation re reading
Aug 23, 201957 min
Novels by Téa Obreht, Wai Chim and Vasily Grossman (and a booklist from Julia Phillips)
Aug 16, 20191h 1m
On Alix Nathan's The Warlow Experiment, David Nicholls' Sweet Sorrow and Lisa See's The Island of Sea Women
Aug 9, 20191h 9m
Reading the Counterculture
Aug 2, 20191h 1m
Kathryn Hind's Hitch, Herman Koch's The Ditch and Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Jul 26, 201954 min
On Joyce Carol Oates' My Life As a Rat, Peter Polites' The Pillars and Me Myshelf and I with Sulari Gentill
Jul 19, 201954 min
Monsters in fiction with Sarah Perry
Jul 12, 201954 min
New fiction from Ocean Vuong, Colson Whitehead and Sarah Hopkins
Jul 5, 201959 min
On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
Jun 28, 201954 min
On Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel, Roque Larraquy's Comemadre, Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island and the reading habits of Robert Forster and Fiona McGregor
Jun 21, 201954 min
Bookshelf Podcast Extra with Damian Barr, Andrea Goldsmith, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Simon Cleary and Emma Ashmere
Jun 19, 201955 min
On Damian Barr's You Will Be Safe Here, Chip Cheek's Cape May and Alex Landrigan's Crossings
Jun 14, 201953 min
On James Ellroy's This Storm, Tishani Doshi's Small Days and Nights and Elizabeth Cook's Lux
Jun 7, 201954 min
On Susan Choi's Trust Exercise, Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls and Richard Anderson's Boxed
May 31, 201954 min
On Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein, Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha and Annaleese Jochems, Baby
May 24, 201953 min
Podcast Extra on traumatic reading, Chris Womersley's bookshelf and Julianne Schultz's digital futures
May 23, 201958 min
On Ali Smith's Spring, Mark Haddon's The Porpoise, Laila Lalami's The Other Americans & how digital is disrupting reading
May 17, 201954 min
Podcast extra on Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree and Jay Kristoff and Amie Kauffman's Aurora Rising
May 16, 201950 min
On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
May 10, 201954 min
The Bookshelf Live from the Sydney Writers Festival
May 3, 201955 min
Podcast extra on NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Les Murray, translation in China and Holly Throsby's bookshelf
May 1, 201951 min
On T C Boyle's Outside Looking In, Don Winslow's The Border and Simon Cleary's The War Artist
Apr 26, 201954 min
On Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me and Joanne Harris's The Strawberry Thief, and the bookshelves of Caro Llewellyn and Dervla McTiernan
Apr 19, 201954 min
On Siri Hustvedt's Memories of the Future, Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive, the Stella Prize and the reading habits of Jenny Brockie and Sam Twyford-Moore
Apr 12, 201953 min
On Max Porter's Lanny, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Dave Eggers' The Parade and Katherine Kovacic's Bookshelf
Apr 5, 201954 min
Novels by Andrea Goldsmith, Sarah Moss, Niviaq Korneliussen, Felicity McLean and José Luís Peixoto
Mar 29, 201954 min
On Leah Kaminsky's The Hollow Bones, Ben Marcus's Notes from the Fog, Julie Keys, The Artist’s Portrait, Katherine Kovacic, Painting in the Shadows and Andrea Goldsmith on books
Mar 22, 201954 min
On Mark Brandi's The Rip, Dervla McTiernan's The Scholar, Leïla Slimani's Adèle and Mohammed Hanif's Red Birds
Mar 15, 201954 min