The Bookshelf
A podcast by ABC listen - Thursdays
304 Episodes
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Memory, history, ghosts and parrots: Richard Flanagan, Sigrid Nunez, Jayne Anne Phillips
Published: 10/11/2023 -
The Book Club: Historical Fiction with Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend and Zadie Smith's The Fraud
Published: 03/11/2023 -
New novels from Christos Tsiolkas, Amanda Lohrey, David Diop and Siân Hughes
Published: 27/10/2023 -
Jellyfish, beauty, betrayal and Camelot: new fiction
Published: 20/10/2023 -
Melissa Lucashenko, Charlotte Wood and Bryan Washington: powerful new fiction
Published: 13/10/2023 -
Three major new works - Trent Dalton, Paul Harding and Suzie Miller
Published: 06/10/2023 -
The Book Club - Short Stories
Published: 29/09/2023 -
Lauren Groff, Daniel Mason and Anna Kate Blair: fables, trees, history and art
Published: 21/09/2023 -
Novels by Anne Enright, Paul Lynch and Emma Donoghue: love, pain, politics and Ireland
Published: 15/09/2023 -
Bringing the Past to Life: with Geraldine Brooks, Pip Williams and Sally Colin-James
Published: 07/09/2023 -
The Book Club: Frank Moorhouse Retrospective
Published: 01/09/2023 -
New fiction from Chris Womersley, Jenny Erpenbeck and Tan Twan Eng: Australia, Germany, Malaysia
Published: 25/08/2023 -
New fiction from Peter Polites, Angela O'Keeffe and Guy Guneratne
Published: 18/08/2023 -
New books by Ann Patchett, Naoise Dolan and Hwang Sok-yong: “Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs”
Published: 11/08/2023 -
The Book Club - Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 shortlist
Published: 04/08/2023 -
Crooked Harlem, corrupt Wellington, bereaved London: books by Colson Whitehead, Emily Perkins and Elizabeth McCracken
Published: 28/07/2023 -
A crying room, a road trip and blazing fury: Gretchen Shirm, Richard Ford and Claire Kilroy
Published: 21/07/2023 -
Fiction: The State of the Art
Published: 13/07/2023 -
Wifedom, hoarded memories and political road rage: New books by Anna Funder, Jen Craig and Priya Guns
Published: 07/07/2023 -
The Book Club: The Greek Myths
Published: 30/06/2023
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