The Bookshelf

304 Episodes

1. Summer Reading: Books to get your teeth into

   Published: 27/12/2024
2. Summer Reading: What did you miss?

   Published: 20/12/2024
3. Crime fiction and why we keep coming back: The repeat protagonist

   Published: 13/12/2024
4. Best Books of 2024

   Published: 06/12/2024
5. The much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami, and plenty more...

   Published: 29/11/2024
6. Literature in translation with special guests Bora Chung and Anton Hur + Yu Shi

   Published: 21/11/2024
7. The Case for Critics - on stage at Canberra Writers' Festival with Christos Tsiolkas, Beejay Silcox and James Jiang

   Published: 15/11/2024
8. Niall Williams’ Time of the Child might just be the big ‘feel-good book of the year’

   Published: 08/11/2024
9. Dark Skies, a quest and nature writing in Inga Simpson’s The Thinning

   Published: 01/11/2024
10. Matricide, the (Virginia) Woolfmother, Norwegian woods: Graeme Macrae Burnet, Michelle de Kretser, Karl Ove Knausgaard

    Published: 25/10/2024
11. Melanie Cheng's The Burrow: can a pet rabbit heal a family dealing with tragedy?

    Published: 18/10/2024
12. Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk

    Published: 11/10/2024
13. Tim Winton and the ruined future of his novel Juice 

    Published: 04/10/2024
14. What's the verdict on Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo?

    Published: 27/09/2024
15. French provocateur Michel Houellebecq + Olga Tokarczuk's health resort horror

    Published: 20/09/2024
16. The rich and entitled are back but so are Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton

    Published: 13/09/2024
17. Malcolm Knox's The First Friend: a black comedy set in Stalin's Soviet Union

    Published: 06/09/2024
18. 2024 mid-year review

    Published: 30/08/2024
19. Vortex: a new novel from Rodney Hall, twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award

    Published: 23/08/2024
20. Rita Bullwinkle's Headshot: a luminous debut that steps into the boxing ring

    Published: 16/08/2024