This edition of the Bookshelf was recorded on stage at Adelaide Writers' Week on Sunday 2 March – with Irish writer Niall Williams (Time of the Child), English writer Charlotte Mendelson (Wife) and all the way from the Adelaide Hills, Australian writer Brian Castro (Chinese Postman). How and when do they do their best reading, what have books meant to them, what are their influences and touchstones? With a surprising swerve or to into the bath and to the funeral of a beloved author.

BOOKS MENTIONED

Laurence Sterne, works

James Joyce, works, Ulysses

Samuel Beckett, works

P. W. Joyce, English As We Speak It in Ireland

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; Bleak House

W.G.Sebald, Rings of Saturn; Austerlitz

Thomas Bernhard, works

Helen Garner, Diaries; The Children's Bach; Monkey Grip  

Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls; Memoir

Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil

Salvatore Satta, The Day of Judgment

Samantha Harvey, Orbital  

Ceridwen Dovey, Only the Astronauts

Louise Glück, works

Anne Carson, works

Jelena Dinic, works

Alistair MacLeod, Ireland and Other Stories

John McGahern, Amongst Women

Percival Everett, James

Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall  

James McBride, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

Patrick Lane, There is a Season

Alba de Céspedes, works

Elena Ferrante, works