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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The Book Club: Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth & the Miles Franklin Literary Award...
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Jul 30, 202154:06pending
Three novels of seclusion: by Mark Brandi, Sunjeev Sahota, Patrick McGrath
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Jul 23, 202156:16pending
The deliberately depraved and dissolute worlds of James Ellroy and Lisa Taddeo
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Jul 16, 202157:11pending
Podcast Extra: More Musical Mayhem with Taylor Jenkins Reid and Dawnie Walton
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Jul 14, 202148:14pending
The Book Club: Turn up the Music!
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Jul 9, 202157:16pending
Can't Travel? Here's a collection of books that will transport you
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Jul 2, 202154:07pending
A party to end all parties, a stranded whale, musical words and a train: what to...
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Jun 25, 202154:05pending
A shrinking lake, a circus of wonders, and a baby: novels to make you feel and t...
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Jun 18, 20211:09:21pending
Reading Jane Austen from the 1940s until now (and other adventures in reading an...
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Jun 11, 202154:06pending
The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith
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Jun 4, 202154:28pending
Podcast Extra: Patricia Highsmith's biographer answers your questions
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May 31, 202110:47pending
Reading Western Sydney, a hot country town & fantasy Africa remade
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May 28, 202154:05pending
Ern Malley Rides Again! Writes, we meant writes
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May 21, 202158:33pending
Podcast Extra: Reading the world in Spinoza's Overcoat
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May 19, 202130:14pending
Earwax, kidnappings and an octopus god
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May 14, 202154:05pending
Podcast Extra: Sujata Massey and a woman lawyer in India in the 1920s
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May 12, 202125:58pending
The Book Club: reading Kazuo Ishiguro in the sun
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May 7, 202155:00pending
Live from the Sydney Writers Festival with Anita Heiss, Rick Morton and Emily Ma...
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Apr 30, 202154:06pending
Podcast Extra: General Sir Peter Cosgrove reads historical fiction and political...
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Apr 28, 202125:28pending
New books by Patricia Lockwood, Jacqueline Maley, Peace Adzo Medie and Marco Mi...
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Apr 23, 20211:07:56pending
Podcast extra: Maria Dahvana Headley and all that monstrous reading
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Apr 21, 202129:15pending
New fiction from Ethan Hawke, Olivia Sudjic and Dirk Kurbjuweit
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Apr 16, 202154:06pending
Podcast Extra: Steven Carroll on reading wartime surrender in the scandalous Sto...
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Apr 14, 202132:14pending
New books by Haruki Murakami, Patricia Engel and Blair James
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Apr 9, 202154:06pending
Podcast Extra: Fiona Mozley reads her way into London and Edinburgh
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Apr 7, 202125:04pending
The Book Club: The Vietnamese diaspora and the aftermath of war
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Apr 2, 202154:07pending
Podcast Extra: Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual and the books behind it
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Mar 31, 202132:26pending
Trevor Shearston's The Beach Caves, Fiona Mozley's Hot Stew and what Caleb Azuma...
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Mar 26, 202158:54pending
Podcast Extra: Robert Jones Jr on James Baldwin and the other writers that have...
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Mar 24, 202125:18pending
New fiction from Edward St Aubyn, Steven Carroll and Lisa Harding
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Mar 19, 202154:06pending
Podcast Extra: Daisy Buchanan is insatiable for books
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Mar 17, 202125:18pending
Ella Baxter's New Animal, Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual & the Sydney Writer...
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Mar 12, 202153:14pending
Podcast Extra: Max Porter answers your questions
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Mar 10, 202123:29pending
The Book Club: February — Art in fiction
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Mar 5, 202154:05pending
Podcast Extra: Simon Winchester's Bookshelf
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Mar 3, 202133:04pending
Reading Simon Winchester, Sarah J Maas, John Kinsella and Guillermo Martínez
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Feb 26, 202156:25pending
Podcast Extra: What does Angie Thomas read?
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Feb 24, 202125:18pending
New fiction by Caleb Azumah Nelson, Melissa Broder and Sònia Hernández
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Feb 19, 202154:05pending
Podcast Extra: Andrew Pippos and the bookshelf that made Lucky's
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Feb 17, 202120:03pending
On Robert Jones Jr's The Prophets, Una Mannion's A Crooked Tree, and a new trans...
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Feb 12, 202154:06pending
Podcast Extra: More on the writer Madeleine St John
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Feb 9, 202123:25pending
The Book Club 2021 No 1: Work
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Feb 5, 202154:05pending
On Anna North's Outlawed, Raven Leilani's Luster & Kevin Barry's That Old Countr...
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Jan 29, 202154:06pending
Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing
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Jan 22, 202154:06pending
Summer Bookshelf with novels by Malcolm Knox, Frances Cha & Garth Greenwell
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Jan 15, 202154:06pending
Summer Bookshelf with novels by Aravind Adiga, Richard Flanagan and Maggie O'Far...
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Jan 8, 202154:06pending
Summer Bookshelf and The Dry on screen plus novels by Laura Jean McKay, Curtis S...
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Jan 1, 202154:06pending
Summer Bookshelf: The Rain Heron, Greenwood, A Theatre for Dreamers and Mayflies
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Dec 25, 202054:06pending
The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 2)
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Dec 18, 202055:43pending
The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 1)
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Dec 11, 202056:03pending
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