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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What lives from books? What drama?
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Apr 17, 202053:52pending
How to read Shakespeare's family
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Apr 10, 202054:07pending
These books are edged with gold
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Apr 3, 202054:07pending
Reading in isolation? We’ve got you covered
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Mar 27, 202057:44pending
Novels from Poland, Norway and Crescent City
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Mar 20, 202054:06pending
Fiction that takes on the world
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Mar 13, 20201:20:05pending
'The dice is shaken in a bone cup,' in Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light
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Mar 6, 202054:42pending
In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage
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Feb 28, 202054:06pending
In which we give Tyson Yunkaporta a book that's too good
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Feb 21, 202054:05pending
Novels by Anne Enright, Aravind Adiga and Kiley Reid
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Feb 14, 202054:06pending
New books by Carmen Maria Machado, Evie Wyld and Emma Forrest
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Feb 7, 202057:09pending
Novels by Eimear McBride, Romesh Gunesekera and Benjamin Myers
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Jan 31, 202058:07pending
New books by Garth Greenwell, Isabel Allende and Jeanine Cummins
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Jan 24, 20201:00:19pending
Summer reads from India, Russia, Japan and the Amazon
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Jan 17, 202053:52pending
When reading is gothic, digital or just plain hard
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Jan 10, 202053:52pending
Begin your reading year with Peter Goldsworthy, Sarah Bailey and Anna Krien
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Jan 3, 202053:52pending
Fantasy with Samantha Shannon, Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
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Dec 27, 201953:52pending
Book recommendations from Kate Forsyth, Heather Rose and Alex McClintock
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Dec 20, 201953:51pending
The Bookshelf's best books of 2019
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Dec 13, 201953:51pending
New fiction from Ben Lerner, Marcy Dermansky and Curdella Forbes
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Dec 6, 201954:09pending
Pod Extra: Poet Lemn Sissay and the many foster children of literature
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Dec 4, 201955:03pending
Pod Extra: Charlotte Wood's The Weekend
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Dec 3, 201945:21pending
Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic...
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Nov 29, 201953:52pending
New books from Julian Barnes, Petina Gappah and Niall Williams
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Nov 22, 201953:52pending
André Aciman's Find Me, Inez Baranay's Turn Left at Venus and Zimbabwean literat...
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Nov 15, 20191:01:46pending
Reading Los Angeles with Michael Connelly plus new Australian fiction
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Nov 8, 201954:06pending
New books by Paul Lynch, Erin Morgenstern and Mary Costello
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Nov 1, 201959:59pending
On Christos Tsiolkas' Damascus, Helen Phillips' The Need and the books on Chris...
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Oct 25, 201954:06pending
The Bookshelf at the State Library of NSW
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Oct 18, 201958:06pending
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls
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Oct 15, 20191:00:19pending
Political satire, historical fiction and short stories
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Oct 11, 201956:08pending
The bookshelves of Jessie Burton, Corey White and Dominic Smith
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Oct 8, 201956:57pending
New novels from Philip Pullman, Favel Parrett and Nino Haratischvili
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Oct 4, 201953:52pending
New books by Edna O'Brien, Etgar Keret and Benjamin Myers
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Sep 27, 20191:00:02pending
On Ann Patchett's The Dutch House, Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and...
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Sep 20, 201954:07pending
On Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, Elizabeth Strout's Olive, Again, Peter Gold...
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Sep 13, 201953:52pending
New fiction from Deborah Levy, Andrew McGahan and Claire G Coleman
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Sep 6, 201953:57pending
On Salman Rushdie's Quichotte, Lucy Treloar's Wolfe Island, Lisa Taddeo's Three...
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Aug 30, 201953:57pending
New fiction from Ben Hobson, Carolina Setterwall and Kate Forsyth plus an exhort...
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Aug 23, 201957:11pending
Novels by Téa Obreht, Wai Chim and Vasily Grossman (and a booklist from Julia Ph...
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Aug 16, 20191:01:59pending
On Alix Nathan's The Warlow Experiment, David Nicholls' Sweet Sorrow and Lisa Se...
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Aug 9, 20191:09:02pending
Reading the Counterculture
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Aug 2, 20191:01:17pending
Kathryn Hind's Hitch, Herman Koch's The Ditch and Fleishman is in Trouble by Taf...
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Jul 26, 201954:11pending
On Joyce Carol Oates' My Life As a Rat, Peter Polites' The Pillars and Me Myshel...
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Jul 19, 201954:08pending
Monsters in fiction with Sarah Perry
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Jul 12, 201954:06pending
New fiction from Ocean Vuong, Colson Whitehead and Sarah Hopkins
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Jul 5, 201959:28pending
On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips'...
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Jun 28, 201954:07pending
On Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel, Roque Larraquy's Comemadre, Amitav Ghosh'...
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Jun 21, 201954:07pending
Bookshelf Podcast Extra with Damian Barr, Andrea Goldsmith, Nguyen Phan Que Mai,...
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Jun 19, 201955:52pending
On Damian Barr's You Will Be Safe Here, Chip Cheek's Cape May and Alex Landrigan...
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Jun 14, 201953:58pending
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