The Bookshelf
A podcast by ABC listen - Thursdays
304 Episodes
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Blazing stories: new fiction from Gail Jones, Alex Miller and Luke Carman
Published: 11/11/2022 -
The Book Club: Reading Kamila Shamsie
Published: 04/11/2022 -
New fiction from Cormac McCarthy, Fiona McFarlane and Cole Haddon
Published: 28/10/2022 -
George Saunders, Barbara Kingsolver, John Irving: an American Bookshelf
Published: 21/10/2022 -
Sisters at breaking point, a grizzly bear on the run and living with 100 ex-boyfriends
Published: 14/10/2022 -
A whale gone mad, fierce Irish love and a Māori detective
Published: 07/10/2022 -
The Book Club: The ouevre of Ian McEwan
Published: 30/09/2022 -
Pod extra: Hilary Mantel, the Booker prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy has died
Published: 26/09/2022 -
Siblings, revelry and fear: Peggy Frew, Kate Atkinson and Adrian McKinty
Published: 23/09/2022 -
Drugs, gangs, racism and reputation: three new works of fiction
Published: 16/09/2022 -
A Renaissance wedding, a Mediaeval war and the ghosts of Modernism: three new novels
Published: 09/09/2022 -
The Book Club: Is crime fiction a literature of resistance? (plus a guide to Korean lit)
Published: 02/09/2022 -
Three monks in a boat, the last white man, and wild wild women
Published: 26/08/2022 -
Joan of Arc re-imagined, dystopian coastlines and trees in the Oz literary imagination
Published: 19/08/2022 -
A champion pedestrianist, an island haunted by grief and running into all your exes
Published: 12/08/2022 -
Big Weekend of Books at the State Library of NSW: writers special
Published: 07/08/2022 -
Reviewing the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner and shortlist
Published: 30/07/2022 -
An urn full of memories, an everlasting lightbulb and what to read next: Chris Womersley's The Diplomat and Anjali Joseph's Keeping in Touch
Published: 23/07/2022 -
Paul Daley's Jesustown, A G Slatter's The Path of Thorns, and a guide to books for kids
Published: 16/07/2022 -
Dystopias, ship's monsters and trees: Claire G Coleman, Jokha Alharthi, Jess Kidd and Jane Rawson
Published: 09/07/2022
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.