About this episode
Ready for some Big Books? Ambition, money, philosophy, bodies and history – all explored through history.
Cassie and Tom Wright's review of Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road was first broadcast on 28 March 2024
Kate and Cassie with Polish publicist Anna O'Grady, on Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium, was first broadcast on 20 September 2024
English writer Francis Spufford spoke to Kate about his novel Cahokia Jazz on Radio National's Big Weekend of Books in June 2024
Get every episode summarized
Each time The Bookshelf publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from The Bookshelf
New Fiction: Donal Ryan, Emma Cline, Max Easton and Sebastian Barry
The Bookshelf
New Fiction from Melissa Harrison and Malcolm Knox + Mandy Sayer's Top 3
The Bookshelf
Top 100 Australian Books from Byron Writers Festival
The Bookshelf
Anjet Daanje's extraordinary The Stork and the Dromedary + Liane Moriarty return...
The Bookshelf