The Bookshelf

293 Episodes

1. Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk

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

   Published: 4/10/2024
3. What's the verdict on Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo?

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

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

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

   Published: 6/09/2024
7. 2024 mid-year review

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

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

   Published: 16/08/2024
10. Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024

    Published: 9/08/2024
11. Weird fiction writer China Miéville's surprising collab with Keanu Reeves

    Published: 2/08/2024
12. Willy Vlautin's The Horse: drenched in twangy music and heartbreak

    Published: 26/07/2024
13. Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs: emotionally true, structurally complex

    Published: 19/07/2024
14. Awfully Rich: Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise and more

    Published: 12/07/2024
15. Fairytales are at play in Julia Phillips' Bear

    Published: 5/07/2024
16. Catherine McKinnon's To Sing of War takes us to PNG during WW ll

    Published: 28/06/2024
17. A new fiction title from bestselling author Bruce Pascoe

    Published: 21/06/2024
18. Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos, winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize

    Published: 17/06/2024
19. In Parade Rachel Cusk blurs reality and fiction

    Published: 7/06/2024
20. Kaliane Bradley's extraordinary time travel love story

    Published: 31/05/2024