The Bookshelf
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Romance, crime, adventure: Summer reading recommendations
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Dec 15, 202354:06pending
Best Books of 2023: What to read now, next and over Summer
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Dec 8, 202354:08pending
Bad Art Mother: Canberra Writers Festival Book Club pod extra
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Dec 7, 202357:43pending
The Book Club: Thrillers
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Dec 1, 202352:38pending
Reading the end of the world: Naomi Alderman, Michael Cunningham, Nicholas Jose,...
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Nov 24, 202354:06pending
Lucy Treloar, Tony Birch, Paul Auster, A K Blakemore: Books to chew on
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Nov 17, 202354:07pending
Memory, history, ghosts and parrots: Richard Flanagan, Sigrid Nunez, Jayne Anne...
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Nov 10, 202354:09pending
The Book Club: Historical Fiction with Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend and Zadie Sm...
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Nov 3, 202354:30pending
New novels from Christos Tsiolkas, Amanda Lohrey, David Diop and Siân Hughes
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Oct 27, 20231:00:16pending
Jellyfish, beauty, betrayal and Camelot: new fiction
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Oct 20, 202354:06pending
Melissa Lucashenko, Charlotte Wood and Bryan Washington: powerful new fiction
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Oct 13, 202357:24pending
Three major new works - Trent Dalton, Paul Harding and Suzie Miller
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Oct 6, 202354:06pending
The Book Club - Short Stories
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Sep 29, 202354:06pending
Lauren Groff, Daniel Mason and Anna Kate Blair: fables, trees, history and art
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Sep 21, 202354:06pending
Novels by Anne Enright, Paul Lynch and Emma Donoghue: love, pain, politics and I...
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Sep 15, 202357:09pending
Bringing the Past to Life: with Geraldine Brooks, Pip Williams and Sally Colin-J...
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Sep 7, 202354:06pending
The Book Club: Frank Moorhouse Retrospective
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Sep 1, 20231:04:44pending
New fiction from Chris Womersley, Jenny Erpenbeck and Tan Twan Eng: Australia, G...
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Aug 25, 202354:02pending
New fiction from Peter Polites, Angela O'Keeffe and Guy Guneratne
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Aug 18, 202354:00pending
New books by Ann Patchett, Naoise Dolan and Hwang Sok-yong: “Good marriages are...
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Aug 11, 202354:03pending
The Book Club - Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 shortlist
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Aug 4, 202358:15pending
Crooked Harlem, corrupt Wellington, bereaved London: books by Colson Whitehead,...
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Jul 28, 202356:36pending
A crying room, a road trip and blazing fury: Gretchen Shirm, Richard Ford and Cl...
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Jul 21, 202354:02pending
Fiction: The State of the Art
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Jul 13, 202354:06pending
Wifedom, hoarded memories and political road rage: New books by Anna Funder, Jen...
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Jul 7, 202354:04pending
The Book Club: The Greek Myths
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Jun 30, 202354:04pending
Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist 2023: pod extra interview special
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Jun 29, 2023pending
Gay saunas, dog walking and an extravagant lie: new fiction from R F Kuang, Denn...
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Jun 23, 202354:04pending
Strangers and Saints: Katherena Vermette and Benjamin Myers
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Jun 16, 2023pending
Politicians, ghosts and sad girls: books by Lorrie Moore, Robert Gott and Pip Fi...
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Jun 9, 202354:08pending
The Book Club - Romantic Comedy
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Jun 2, 20231:01:45pending
From the Sydney Writers Festival with Shehan Karunatilaka, Jason Reynolds and Gr...
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May 26, 202354:08pending
Grifters, pilgrims and scribes: new fiction from Emma Cline, Benjamin Myers and...
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May 19, 202354:05pending
History, identity, doppelgangers: new fiction from Deborah Levy, André Dao and C...
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May 12, 20231:00:08pending
Poetry, jumpers, islands: new fiction from John Kinsella, Justin Cronin, Jente P...
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May 5, 202354:05pending
The Book Club: Salman Rushdie
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Apr 28, 202358:09pending
New books by Max Porter, Han Kang and Yan Lianke
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Apr 22, 202357:57pending
A bookbinder, Andy Warhol's typist and the cleverest woman in the world
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Apr 14, 202354:06pending
Dystopia, satire, gladiators and gardeners: new fiction from Eleanor Catton and...
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Apr 6, 202354:06pending
The Book Club - weather in fiction with Hannah Kent and Robbie Arnott
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Mar 31, 202354:05pending
Mermaids, man overboard and more: new fiction from Julia Langbein and Stephanie...
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Mar 24, 20231:00:00pending
Sleuths, silence, secrets: new fiction from Rebecca Makkai, Carole Hailey and Se...
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Mar 17, 20231:00:00pending
Freedom, family and an all-consuming love: new fiction from Anindita Ghose, Vigd...
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Mar 10, 20231:00:00pending
Podcast extra: Infidelity and compassion: changing morality in 19th century fict...
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Mar 6, 202323:00pending
The Book Club: Infidelity
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Mar 3, 202354:00pending
Raucous aunts, warriors and dragons, Queer Nigeria and more: new fiction
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Feb 24, 20231:00:00pending
Trinidad, Antarctica and a corporate city-state in not-quite Korea: three new no...
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Feb 17, 20231:00:00pending
From Barbados in the 1830s to the Melbourne present via the Scottish imaginary:...
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Feb 10, 20231:00:00pending
From frontier western to a wandering ghost: new fiction
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Feb 3, 20231:00:00pending
Serial killers, thrillers and Shirley Hazzard: new books from Bret Easton Ellis...
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