The Bookshelf
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What are you reading, loving or being challenged by? We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.
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On James Ellroy's This Storm, Tishani Doshi's Small Days and Nights and Elizabet...
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Jun 7, 201954:06pending
On Susan Choi's Trust Exercise, Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls and Richard An...
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May 31, 201954:06pending
On Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein, Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha and Annaleese Jo...
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May 24, 201953:58pending
Podcast Extra on traumatic reading, Chris Womersley's bookshelf and Julianne Sch...
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May 23, 201958:50pending
On Ali Smith's Spring, Mark Haddon's The Porpoise, Laila Lalami's The Other Amer...
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May 17, 201954:07pending
Podcast extra on Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree and Jay Kristo...
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May 16, 201950:18pending
On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffma...
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May 10, 201954:07pending
The Bookshelf Live from the Sydney Writers Festival
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May 3, 201955:10pending
Podcast extra on NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Les Murray, translation in China...
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May 1, 201951:12pending
On T C Boyle's Outside Looking In, Don Winslow's The Border and Simon Cleary's T...
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Apr 26, 201954:06pending
On Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me and Joanne Harris's The Strawberry Thief, and t...
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Apr 19, 201954:04pending
On Siri Hustvedt's Memories of the Future, Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Arch...
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Apr 12, 201953:57pending
On Max Porter's Lanny, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Dave Eggers' The Parade and K...
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Apr 5, 201954:06pending
Novels by Andrea Goldsmith, Sarah Moss, Niviaq Korneliussen, Felicity McLean and...
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Mar 29, 201954:06pending
On Leah Kaminsky's The Hollow Bones, Ben Marcus's Notes from the Fog, Julie Key...
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Mar 22, 201954:07pending
On Mark Brandi's The Rip, Dervla McTiernan's The Scholar, Leïla Slimani's Adèle...
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Mar 15, 201954:06pending
On Carrie Tiffany's Exploded View, Peggy Frew's Islands, Taylor Jenkins Reid's D...
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Mar 8, 201954:06pending
On Melissa Harrison's All Among the Barley, Nana Kwama Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Bl...
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Mar 1, 201954:07pending
On Sigrid Nunez's The Friend, Will Dean’s Red Snow and Karen Thompson Walker's T...
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Feb 22, 201954:06pending
Reading Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction and Delphine de Vigan's L...
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Feb 15, 201954:07pending
On Marlon James' Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Debra Adelaide's Zebra, Tessa Hadley's...
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Feb 8, 201954:05pending
On Caoilinn Hughes' Orchid & the Wasp, Steven Carroll's The Year of the Beast, J...
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Feb 1, 201954:06pending
On Summer reading and Ben Okri's The Freedom Artist, Chigozie Obioma's An Orches...
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Jan 25, 201953:52pending
What Morris Gleitzman read on the factory floor, being amanuensis to Will Self,...
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Jan 18, 201954:08pending
Are you a rereader? And other thoughts for a Summer Bookshelf
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Jan 11, 201954:07pending
Do you have book-shaped New Year's reading resolutions?
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Jan 4, 201954:08pending
If you dog-ear your books, you're part of a long tradition
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Dec 28, 201854:08pending
Summer reading with Tayari Jones' An American Marriage, Peter Cochrane's The Mak...
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Dec 21, 201854:08pending
Podcast extra edition: with Viv Albertine, Jessie Burton and Jorge Carrion
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Dec 19, 201856:54pending
Best reads of the year from Stuart Coupe, Nicole Abadee, Trent Jamieson and Cass...
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Dec 14, 201854:05pending
What are the best books Trent Dalton, Shaun Prescott and Amelia Lush have read t...
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Dec 7, 201853:57pending
Reading Sydney Noir, finding plague pits in the backyard with Minette Walters, A...
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Dec 5, 201850:31pending
On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's...
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Nov 30, 201854:05pending
New fiction from Patrick Gale, Minette Walters, Rick Gekoski and Amitava Kumar
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Nov 23, 201854:06pending
Podcast Extra edition: with Fiona Wright, Kimberley Knight, Stephanie Bishop and...
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Nov 20, 201836:15pending
On Anna Burns' Milkman, Esi Edugyan's Washington Black and Philip Teir's The Sum...
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Nov 16, 201854:06pending
RN Armistice 100 The Bookshelf podcast extra: On Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All...
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Nov 10, 201834:10pending
RN Armistice 100: Australian WWI fiction, Indian writing & Vera Brittain's Testa...
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Nov 9, 201853:59pending
New fiction from Andrew Miller, Anne Tyler and Victor LaValle
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Nov 2, 201853:57pending
On Krissy Kneen's Wintering, Les Zig's August Falling, Margaret Morgan's The Sec...
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Oct 26, 201853:57pending
On Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore, Sarah Perry's Melmoth and Kristina Ol...
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Oct 19, 201853:57pending
On Kristina Olsson's Shell, Markus Zusak's Bridge of Clay and Prayaag Akbar's Le...
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Oct 12, 201853:57pending
Reading habits, influences and recommendations from Australian novelists Emma Vi...
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Oct 5, 201853:59pending
On books by J M Coetzee, Kate Morton, Sebastian Faulks, Rebecca O'Connor and Joh...
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Sep 28, 201853:58pending
New novels from Louis de Bernières, Kate Atkinson, Andrew Sean Greer and Rebecca...
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Sep 21, 201853:57pending
On Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls, Patrick de Witt's French Exit and the...
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Sep 14, 201853:57pending
Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Wi...
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Sep 7, 201853:59pending
On Sally Rooney's Normal People and Stephanie Bishop's Man Out of Time (just for...
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Aug 31, 201853:56pending
Vale Crimewriter Peter Corris: Cliff Hardy has made his exit
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Aug 30, 201815:44pending
On Anna Seghers' The Seventh Cross, Tiffany Tsao's Under Your Wings and books by...
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Aug 24, 201853:56pending
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