The Bookshelf
A podcast by ABC listen - Thursdays
304 Episodes
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A woman falls through the cracks of time in the first of Solvej Balle's seven-novel-series
Published: 8/05/2025 -
A beach holiday told four ways in Luke Horton's Time Together
Published: 1/05/2025 -
James Bradley's Landfall reveals a flooded, baked and dilapidated city
Published: 24/04/2025 -
The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams
Published: 18/04/2025 -
A love triangle set against the beauty of Montana in Eric Puchner's Dream State
Published: 17/04/2025 -
Folk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in Guatemala
Published: 10/04/2025 -
Andrea Goldsmith's The Buried Life - and a train steaming towards disaster . . .
Published: 3/04/2025 -
Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell + Tim Rogers and Zan Rowe on two new debuts
Published: 27/03/2025 -
This week’s novels takes us to Zanzibar, Budapest and Renaissance Florence
Published: 20/03/2025 -
On stage at Adelaide Writers' Week with Niall Williams, Charlotte Mendelson and Brian Castro
Published: 13/03/2025 -
Australian bestseller Diana Reid returns with Signs of Damage
Published: 6/03/2025 -
Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery
Published: 27/02/2025 -
Mothers and Sons...is the story as fraught as the title suggests?
Published: 20/02/2025 -
Alaska, folktales, mothers and daughters
Published: 13/02/2025 -
A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America
Published: 6/02/2025 -
Sweden, France, New Zealand: books from around the world
Published: 30/01/2025 -
A medical crisis brings one man close to love, art, and beauty
Published: 23/01/2025 -
Summer Reading: Quick, give me a recommendation!
Published: 17/01/2025 -
Summer Reading from Australia and the World
Published: 10/01/2025 -
Summer Reading: Fiction for a new year
Published: 3/01/2025
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