The Bookshelf
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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
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