The Bookshelf

By ABC Australia

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.... more

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The podcast currently has 879 episodes available.

The Bookshelf episodes:

September 14, 2018 On Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls, Patrick de Witt's French Exit and the Australian Reading Hour
Kate and Cassie are joined by lawyer and novelist Andreas Heger and publisher and writer Phillipa McGregor to discuss the latest books by Pat Barker and Patrick de Witt, while Morris Gleitzman tells Cassie about the Australian Reading Hour and the bookshelf that made him.
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54min
September 07, 2018 Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with rather a lot of short stories, and the reader reviewers Roanna Gonsalves, Brett Evans and Michael Dulaney
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54min
September 07, 2018 Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with rather a lot of short stories, and the reader reviewers Roanna Gonsalves, Brett Evans and Michael Dulaney
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54min
August 31, 2018 On Sally Rooney's Normal People and Stephanie Bishop's Man Out of Time (just for starters)
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with reader Patrick Carey, editor of the Australian Book Review Peter Rose, writer and translator Tiffany Tsao and a whole lot of books.
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54min
August 31, 2018 On Sally Rooney's Normal People and Stephanie Bishop's Man Out of Time (just for starters)
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with reader Patrick Carey, editor of the Australian Book Review Peter Rose, writer and translator Tiffany Tsao and a whole lot of books.
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54min
August 30, 2018 Vale Crimewriter Peter Corris: Cliff Hardy has made his exit
Peter Corris was known as the Godfather of Australian crime. He wrote more than forty Cliff Hardy novels, as well as works of history, co-authored biography and many more (ninety books at least)
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16min
August 30, 2018 Vale Crimewriter Peter Corris: Cliff Hardy has made his exit
Peter Corris was known as the Godfather of Australian crime. He wrote more than forty Cliff Hardy novels, as well as works of history, co-authored biography and many more (ninety books at least)
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16min
August 24, 2018 On Anna Seghers' The Seventh Cross, Tiffany Tsao's Under Your Wings and books by Edward St Aubyn and Roland Schimmelpfennig
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by arts journalist Martin Portus, literary scholar Helen Groth and historian Clare Monagle to talk fiction.
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54min
August 24, 2018 On Anna Seghers' The Seventh Cross, Tiffany Tsao's Under Your Wings and books by Edward St Aubyn and Roland Schimmelpfennig
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by arts journalist Martin Portus, literary scholar Helen Groth and historian Clare Monagle to talk fiction.
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54min
August 17, 2018 On Melissa Broder's The Pisces, Audrey Schulman's Theory of Bastards and V S Naipaul - with writers Felicity Castagna, Margo Lanagan and Khalid Warsame
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with novels about animals, sex and research (and a few other things)
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54min

FAQs about The Bookshelf:

How many episodes does The Bookshelf have?

The podcast currently has 879 episodes available.