The Bookshelf

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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.

Recent Episodes
  • Reading James Joyce's Ulysses for Bloomsday (and new fiction galore)
    Jun 12, 2025 – 1:00:00
  • New fiction from Gail Jones, S A Cosby and Seán Hewitt
    Jun 5, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • A vibrant gay coming-of-age story set in Geraldton
    May 29, 2025 – 0:54:04
  • Sydney Writers' Festival: Top 100 Books launched with Alan Hollinghurst, Catherine Chidgey, Mariana Enriquez, Afra Atiq
    May 23, 2025 – 0:55:06
  • On stage at Melbourne Writers' Festival with Hannah Kent and Beejay Silcox
    May 15, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • A woman falls through the cracks of time in the first of Solvej Balle's seven-novel-series
    May 8, 2025 – 0:54:04
  • A beach holiday told four ways in Luke Horton's Time Together
    May 1, 2025 – 0:54:04
  • James Bradley's Landfall reveals a flooded, baked and dilapidated city
    Apr 24, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams
    Apr 18, 2025 – 0:54:00
  • A love triangle set against the beauty of Montana in Eric Puchner's Dream State
    Apr 17, 2025 – 0:54:07
  • Folk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in Guatemala
    Apr 10, 2025 – 1:13:09
  • Andrea Goldsmith's The Buried Life - and a train steaming towards disaster . . .
    Apr 3, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell + Tim Rogers and Zan Rowe on two new debuts
    Mar 27, 2025 – 0:54:36
  • This week’s novels takes us to Zanzibar, Budapest and Renaissance Florence
    Mar 20, 2025 – 0:54:05
  • On stage at Adelaide Writers' Week with Niall Williams, Charlotte Mendelson and Brian Castro
    Mar 13, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • Australian bestseller Diana Reid returns with Signs of Damage
    Mar 6, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery
    Feb 27, 2025 – 0:54:03
  • Mothers and Sons...is the story as fraught as the title suggests?
    Feb 20, 2025 – 0:53:46
  • Alaska, folktales, mothers and daughters
    Feb 13, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America
    Feb 6, 2025 – 0:57:06
  • Sweden, France, New Zealand: books from around the world
    Jan 30, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • A medical crisis brings one man close to love, art, and beauty
    Jan 23, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • Summer Reading: Quick, give me a recommendation!
    Jan 17, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • Summer Reading from Australia and the World
    Jan 10, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • Summer Reading: Fiction for a new year
    Jan 3, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • Summer Reading: Books to get your teeth into
    Dec 27, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Summer Reading: What did you miss?
    Dec 20, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Crime fiction and why we keep coming back: The repeat protagonist
    Dec 13, 2024 – 0:54:05
  • Best Books of 2024
    Dec 6, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • The much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami, and plenty more...
    Nov 29, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Literature in translation with special guests Bora Chung and Anton Hur + Yu Shi
    Nov 22, 2024 – 1:00:18
  • The Case for Critics - on stage at Canberra Writers' Festival with Christos Tsiolkas, Beejay Silcox and James Jiang
    Nov 15, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Niall Williams’ Time of the Child might just be the big ‘feel-good book of the year’
    Nov 8, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Dark Skies, a quest and nature writing in Inga Simpson’s The Thinning
    Nov 1, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Matricide, the (Virginia) Woolfmother, Norwegian woods: Graeme Macrae Burnet, Michelle de Kretser, Karl Ove Knausgaard
    Oct 25, 2024 – 0:54:04
  • Melanie Cheng's The Burrow: can a pet rabbit heal a family dealing with tragedy?
    Oct 18, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk
    Oct 11, 2024 – 0:54:05
  • Tim Winton and the ruined future of his novel Juice 
    Oct 4, 2024 – 0:54:08
  • What's the verdict on Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo?
    Sep 27, 2024 – 0:54:36
  • French provocateur Michel Houellebecq + Olga Tokarczuk's health resort horror
    Sep 20, 2024 – 0:54:37
  • The rich and entitled are back but so are Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton
    Sep 13, 2024 – 0:54:46
  • Malcolm Knox's The First Friend: a black comedy set in Stalin's Soviet Union
    Sep 6, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • 2024 mid-year review
    Aug 30, 2024 – 0:54:46
  • Vortex: a new novel from Rodney Hall, twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award
    Aug 23, 2024 – 0:54:07
  • Rita Bullwinkle's Headshot: a luminous debut that steps into the boxing ring
    Aug 16, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024
    Aug 9, 2024 – 0:54:35
  • Weird fiction writer China Miéville's surprising collab with Keanu Reeves
    Aug 2, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Willy Vlautin's The Horse: drenched in twangy music and heartbreak
    Jul 26, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs: emotionally true, structurally complex
    Jul 19, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Awfully Rich: Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise and more
    Jul 12, 2024 – 0:54:06
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