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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A snowy Tokyo, a haunted house and a cracked swimming pool: books by Jessica Au,...
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Apr 9, 202253:33pending
The Book Club: reading New Zealand through Keri Hulmes' The Bone People + Lloyd...
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Apr 1, 202257:14pending
Mexico, dystopian exile, and Oz suburbia: new fiction from Fernanda Melchor, Ton...
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Mar 25, 202253:43pending
Iceland, Nebraska and the Sunshine Coast: new fiction from Robert Lukins, Kári G...
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Mar 18, 202257:43pending
New fiction from Ireland and New Zealand
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Mar 11, 202256:55pending
The Book Club: Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Love Marriage
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Mar 4, 202255:54pending
New fiction from Omar Sakr, Karen Joy Fowler and Aoife Clifford
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Feb 25, 202254:05pending
Reading Korean history, fierce Italian parents and a theme park of funerary futu...
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Feb 18, 202256:57pending
Reading our way to islands, monsters, balloons, snowscapes, heroes and more
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Feb 11, 202254:07pending
The Book Club: Rebecca and Rebecca
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Feb 4, 202254:08pending
Reading Hanya Yanagihara, Gary Shteyngart and Nikki May
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Jan 28, 202254:11pending
Pip Williams and The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Jan 28, 202254:05pending
Summer Reads: Hannah Kent, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Sunjeev Sahota and Aravind Adiga
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Jan 21, 202254:10pending
The Bookshelf that Made Me: Siri Hustvedt & Jennifer Mills
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Jan 20, 202234:20pending
Summer Reads: Patricia Lockwood, Ann Patchett, Simon Winchester, Suyi Davies Oku...
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Jan 14, 202254:09pending
The Bookshelf that Made Me: Tilly Lawless & Jon McGregor
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Jan 13, 202228:35pending
Summer Reads: James Ellroy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Guillermo Martinez and Charlotte McCo...
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Jan 7, 202254:06pending
The Bookshelf that Made Me: R W R Mcdonald & Jacqueline Bublitz
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Jan 6, 202228:36pending
Summer Reading: a wild party, Beowulf, and Gillian Mears
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Dec 31, 202154:06pending
The Bookshelf that Made Me: Colm Tóibín and Emily Gale
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Dec 30, 202128:36pending
Summer Reading: Jane Austen, Joan Silber, Kevin Barry and Elizabeth Strout
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Dec 24, 202154:06pending
The Bookshelf That Made Me: Sarah Winman and Nick Earls
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Dec 23, 202128:36pending
The Bookshelf That Made Me: Ken Follett, Rose Tremain, Amie Kaufman & Jaclyn Mor...
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Dec 17, 20211:00:32pending
Best Reads 2021 Part 2: General Adult Fiction
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Dec 10, 202154:05pending
Claudia Karvan and the Books that Made Us: Pod Extra
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Dec 8, 202120:59pending
The Book Club: John Hughes' The Dogs + Kate Grenville's The Secret River
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Dec 3, 202154:04pending
Classic Australian Novels - Alexis Wright's Carpentaria
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Nov 30, 202121:02pending
Classic Australian Novels - Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang
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Nov 30, 202137:55pending
Classic Australian Novels - Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish
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Nov 30, 202113:46pending
Classic Australian Novels - Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel
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Nov 30, 202116:00pending
Classic Australian Novels - Helen Garner's Monkey Grip
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Nov 30, 202116:41pending
Classic Australian Novels - Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance
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Nov 30, 202124:00pending
Classic Australian Novels - Kate Grenville's The Secret River
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Nov 30, 202127:21pending
Best Reads 2021 Part 1: Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
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Nov 26, 202154:05pending
On Christos Tsiolkas' 7 ½, Vietnamese smoky ghosts & a helluva book
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Nov 19, 202153:57pending
Behemoths, Novellas and Essays: reading recommendations
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Nov 12, 202153:58pending
The Book Club: Amor Towles' The Lincoln Highway + Cormac McCarthy's The Road
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Nov 5, 202154:05pending
Adam Liaw and Hannah Kent: Star Reviewers #4
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Oct 29, 202157:24pending
Geraldine Hakewill and Graeme Simsion: Star Reviewers #3
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Oct 22, 202154:05pending
Tim Rogers and Pip Williams: Star Reviewers #2
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Oct 15, 202153:57pending
Marta Dusseldorp and John Safran: Star Reviewers #1
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Oct 8, 20211:02:10pending
The Book Club: George Eliot's Middlemarch + Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle
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Oct 1, 202154:05pending
Did you hear the one about the obscenity trial?
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Sep 24, 202153:52pending
'Uneasy, Ambiguous and Strange': Why rewrite Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann?
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Sep 17, 202157:58pending
Yes, we are reviewing Sally Rooney's new novel
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Sep 10, 202154:05pending
The Book Club: On Memory
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Sep 3, 202154:05pending
How to read like an Australian writer
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Aug 27, 202155:43pending
Why you should read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (and meet his feistiest character...
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Aug 20, 202153:57pending
Wolves, ghosts and a great flood: scary things in books
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Aug 13, 202154:07pending
Outraged tweeters, miniature soldiers and the flooded canals of Venice
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Aug 6, 202153:56pending
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