The Bookshelf
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The much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami, and plenty more...
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Literature in translation with special guests Bora Chung and Anton Hur + Yu Shi
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The Case for Critics - on stage at Canberra Writers' Festival with Christos Tsio...
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Niall Williams’ Time of the Child might just be the big ‘feel-good book of the y...
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Dark Skies, a quest and nature writing in Inga Simpson’s The Thinning
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Matricide, the (Virginia) Woolfmother, Norwegian woods: Graeme Macrae Burnet, Mi...
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Melanie Cheng's The Burrow: can a pet rabbit heal a family dealing with tragedy?
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Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk
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Tim Winton and the ruined future of his novel Juice
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What's the verdict on Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo?
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French provocateur Michel Houellebecq + Olga Tokarczuk's health resort horror
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The rich and entitled are back but so are Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton
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Malcolm Knox's The First Friend: a black comedy set in Stalin's Soviet Union
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2024 mid-year review
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Vortex: a new novel from Rodney Hall, twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award
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Rita Bullwinkle's Headshot: a luminous debut that steps into the boxing ring
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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024
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Weird fiction writer China Miéville's surprising collab with Keanu Reeves
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Willy Vlautin's The Horse: drenched in twangy music and heartbreak
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Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs: emotionally true, structurally complex
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Awfully Rich: Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise and more
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Fairytales are at play in Julia Phillips' Bear
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Catherine McKinnon's To Sing of War takes us to PNG during WW ll
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A new fiction title from bestselling author Bruce Pascoe
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Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos, winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize
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In Parade Rachel Cusk blurs reality and fiction
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Kaliane Bradley's extraordinary time travel love story
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Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch joins an all-star panel from SWF
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A new novel from Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran
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Claire Messud's epic family odyssey
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Colm Tóibín's long awaited sequel to Brooklyn
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lost novel
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One Day author David Nicholls is back
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A never before published novel from Charmian Clift
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Bri Lee's The Work explores art, ambition, privilege and power
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Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road is "majestic"
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Téa Obreht, Asako Yuzuki, Steven Carroll: dystopia, butter, murder
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Reimagining Huckleberry Finn, a talking fox, art and alienation
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Three new Australian novels! Iain Ryan, Amy Brown, Sharlene Allsopp
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A Trans-Tasman edition: Myfanwy Jones, Anna Smaill and Sulari Gentill
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Meditations on writing: Gail Jones, Jennifer Croft and a new anthology edited by...
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Dreams and nightmares: Leo Vardiashvili, Teju Cole, Matthew Blake
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Mysteries and meta-physical thrillers: Kemper Donovan, Mike McCormack and Alex M...
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New fiction from Francis Spufford, Hisham Matar and Kiley Reid
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We're back for 2024 featuring new novels from Katherena Vermette, Dolly Alderton...
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Summer Reads: history remade, futures reimagined
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Summer Reads: True Crime, historical injustice, NZ satire and God's Teeth
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Summer Reads: from Aphra Behn to Max Porter
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Summer reading: heists, horses, Harlem, Ireland, rage
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Summer Reads: Impossible creatures, an Indian thriller and love in a cherry orch...
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