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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Episodes (752)
Summer Reading: Where will books take you?
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Jan 20, 20231:00:00pending
Books Extra: Fiona McFarlane's The Sun Walks Down
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Jan 19, 202330:00pending
Summer reading: from the afterlife to New Zealand fiction, we have you covered
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Jan 13, 20231:00:00pending
Books Extra: Becky Manawatu and Leila Mottley
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Jan 12, 202330:00pending
Summer Reading: It's time to catch up on some great books you missed
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Jan 6, 20231:00:00pending
Books Extra: Audrey Magee's The Colony
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Jan 5, 202330:00pending
Summer Reading: love, sex, drugs and mischief
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Dec 30, 20221:00:00pending
Books Extra: the criminal (ish) minds of John Darnielle and Charity Norman
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Dec 29, 202230:00pending
Summer reading: Islands of the imagination
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Dec 23, 20221:00:00pending
Books Extra: Patrick Gale's Mother's Boy
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Dec 22, 202230:00pending
Shelflife: Four writers on the books that electrified them (no, not literally)
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Dec 16, 20221:00:00pending
Summer reading extra: Republic and Revolution in England with Philippa Gregory
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Dec 13, 202229:22pending
Books of the year: 2022 with a panel of readers
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Dec 9, 20221:00:00pending
The Book Club: Beyond the boundary
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Dec 2, 20221:00:00pending
Stolen bicycles, stolen love and stolen children: new books by Philip Salom, Cel...
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Nov 25, 20221:00:00pending
Underclass, underground, undone: New Australian fiction from Fiona Kelly McGrego...
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Nov 18, 20221:00:00pending
Blazing stories: new fiction from Gail Jones, Alex Miller and Luke Carman
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Nov 11, 20221:00:00pending
The Book Club: Reading Kamila Shamsie
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Nov 4, 20221:00:00pending
New fiction from Cormac McCarthy, Fiona McFarlane and Cole Haddon
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Oct 28, 20221:00:00pending
George Saunders, Barbara Kingsolver, John Irving: an American Bookshelf
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Oct 21, 20221:00:00pending
Sisters at breaking point, a grizzly bear on the run and living with 100 ex-boy...
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Oct 14, 20221:00:00pending
A whale gone mad, fierce Irish love and a Māori detective
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Oct 7, 20221:00:00pending
The Book Club: The ouevre of Ian McEwan
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Sep 30, 2022pending
Pod extra: Hilary Mantel, the Booker prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilo...
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Sep 26, 202250:17pending
Siblings, revelry and fear: Peggy Frew, Kate Atkinson and Adrian McKinty
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Sep 23, 20221:00:00pending
Drugs, gangs, racism and reputation: three new works of fiction
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Sep 16, 20221:00:00pending
A Renaissance wedding, a Mediaeval war and the ghosts of Modernism: three new no...
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Sep 9, 20221:00:00pending
The Book Club: Is crime fiction a literature of resistance? (plus a guide to Kor...
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Sep 2, 20221:00:00pending
Three monks in a boat, the last white man, and wild wild women
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Aug 26, 20221:00:00pending
Joan of Arc re-imagined, dystopian coastlines and trees in the Oz literary imagi...
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Aug 19, 20221:00:00pending
A champion pedestrianist, an island haunted by grief and running into all your e...
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Aug 12, 2022pending
Big Weekend of Books at the State Library of NSW: writers special
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Aug 7, 202254:05pending
Reviewing the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner and shortlist
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Jul 30, 202254:05pending
An urn full of memories, an everlasting lightbulb and what to read next: Chris W...
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Jul 23, 202254:07pending
Paul Daley's Jesustown, A G Slatter's The Path of Thorns, and a guide to books f...
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Jul 16, 202254:06pending
Dystopias, ship's monsters and trees: Claire G Coleman, Jokha Alharthi, Jess Kid...
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Jul 9, 202257:39pending
The Book Club: Celebrating Australian literature for the ABC's 90th
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Jul 2, 202254:07pending
Frank Moorhouse from the ABC Archives: podcast special
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Jun 27, 20221:05:39pending
A Métis family tree and a Sydney Leprosarium: Katherena Vermette's The Strangers...
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Jun 25, 202254:05pending
Abomination, modernism and crime: new fiction from Ashley Goldberg, Michelle Cah...
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Jun 18, 202259:58pending
Racecourses, race, sex work and exile: new fiction from Geraldine Brooks, Leila...
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Jun 11, 202257:30pending
The Book Club: Horses and their Riders
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Jun 4, 202259:59pending
Ireland, Italy, England and Oz: four bold new works of fiction
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May 28, 202254:06pending
From the Sydney Writers Festival: The Joy of Re-reading
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May 25, 202251:48pending
From the Sydney Writers Festival: with Jackie Huggins, Damon Galgut and George H...
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May 21, 202254:05pending
Making umbrellas in the afterlife: New books from Steve Toltz, Emiliano Monge an...
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May 14, 202257:32pending
Soap, silences and happy stories (maybe): new fiction from Paddy O'Reilly, Patri...
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May 7, 202254:06pending
The Book Club: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad & The Candy House
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Apr 30, 202255:19pending
A moon colony, T S Eliot, Shakespeare and pain: new fiction from Emily St John M...
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Apr 23, 202254:06pending
A Glasgow teenager, a Roman emperor and a sneaky revolutionary: new books by Dou...
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Apr 16, 202255:46pending
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