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)
Podcast Extra: Naomi Novik
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Dec 8, 202015:53pending
Podcast Extra: Garth Nix
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Dec 7, 202025:00pending
The Book Club No 8: Mining the past
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Dec 4, 202059:03pending
Podcast Extra: Susanna Clarke
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Nov 30, 202023:06pending
Maybe they're all aliens?
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Nov 27, 202054:03pending
Podcast Extra: Lev Grossman
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Nov 23, 202027:12pending
A film set, a glass heart, and the unclaimed dead
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Nov 20, 202056:06pending
Podcast Extra: Graham Swift and the rough glittering world
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Nov 16, 202027:20pending
A cafe, a shiver, a chase
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Nov 13, 202055:33pending
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets
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Nov 6, 20201:00:57pending
The Book Club No 7: On the Coast and in the Water
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Oct 30, 202055:33pending
Tragedies, Sagas and Infinite Splendours
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Oct 23, 202054:07pending
Vanishing body parts and toxic relationships
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Oct 16, 202058:01pending
Podcast Extra: Andrew O'Hagan
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Oct 13, 202027:55pending
A mythic quest and star-crossed love
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Oct 9, 202054:06pending
Podcast Extra: Chris Riddell sharpens his pencil
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Oct 6, 202039:47pending
The Book Club No 6: Italy in translation
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Oct 2, 202054:08pending
Podcast Extra: Sue Miller
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Sep 29, 202024:07pending
Standing on the bridge, wrong side of the rail
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Sep 25, 202053:52pending
Podcast Extra: Maria Lewis
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Sep 22, 202029:13pending
Slipping between worlds and cities, in history, fiction and fantasy
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Sep 18, 202057:54pending
Podcast Extra: Meg Rosoff
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Sep 15, 202026:55pending
Podcast Extra: Christopher Paolini
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Sep 14, 202023:00pending
Podcast Extra: Sarah Moss & Ian McGuire
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Sep 13, 202035:34pending
Imagined taxonomies of life, love, death and memory
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Sep 11, 202054:07pending
Podcast Extra: Raymond E Feist
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Sep 8, 202021:42pending
Podcast Extra: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
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Sep 7, 202022:04pending
Book Club No 5: Speculative Fiction and N K Jemisin’s The City we Became
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Sep 4, 202053:52pending
Podcast Extra: Kester Grant
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Sep 1, 202022:43pending
Podcast Extra: Nicholas Shakespeare
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Aug 31, 202029:27pending
A tricky nemesis or two, the past, and a damp holiday camp
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Aug 28, 202056:06pending
Poisonous plants, talking rabbits, and a roadtrip of tears
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Aug 21, 202054:07pending
Thrillers, wars and labyrinths spiral through fiction
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Aug 14, 202053:57pending
Family secrets and the approach of General Winter in three new Australian novels
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Aug 7, 202054:06pending
The Book Club No 4: Tara June Winch's The Yield and Miles Franklin's My Brillian...
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Jul 31, 202054:07pending
Creatures, sisters and relationships in fiction
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Jul 24, 202054:08pending
A note in a forest, a train on fire, a gothic mood
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Jul 17, 202054:06pending
History, fiction and plastic surgery
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Jul 10, 202056:27pending
The Book Club No 3: Crime, thrillers, and Lawrence Wright’s The End of October
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Jul 3, 20201:00:27pending
Pod Extra: Poetry and Music
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Jul 1, 202053:22pending
The discomfort of grief and memory
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Jun 26, 202053:51pending
Reading love and tragedy in Jamaica, Trinidad and India
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Jun 19, 202057:56pending
Race, apocalypse and robots
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Jun 12, 202054:06pending
The Book Club No 2: Joan London’s The Golden Age & Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit...
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Jun 5, 202058:25pending
A bird made of rain, a girl made of plantain, a family made of loss
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May 29, 20201:02:22pending
What If, said the writer, What If?
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May 22, 202053:52pending
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)
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May 15, 202059:55pending
A fossilised penguin walked into a bar (and other stories)
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May 8, 20201:02:44pending
The Book Club No 1: Come on, join our Book Club
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May 1, 202053:52pending
What did that dingo just say to me? And other adventures in fiction
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Apr 24, 202054:05pending
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