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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.
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The Bookshelf’s best: Four standout novels from the past year
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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Zan Rowe and Madeleine Gray review: Chris Ames/Fiona Mozley/Niamh Campbell
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Michael Robotham and Roanna Gonsalves review: Andrew Sean Greer/Ilka Tampke/Michael Pedersen
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Hannah Kent and Tom Wright review: Maggie O'Farrell/Ann Patchett/Christine Balint
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Beejay Silcox & Bernadette Brennan review: Doireann Ní Ghríofa/Chloe Wilson/Deborah Levy
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May 29, 2026 |
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Launching ABC Radio National’s 2026 Top 100 Books countdown at SWF
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May 22, 2026 |
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Madeleine Gray & Tim Rogers review: Wayne Marshall/Ellena Savage/Lena Dunham/Douglas Stuart
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May 15, 2026 |
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Robert Forster & Geordie Williamson review: Elizabeth Strout/Daniel Kehlmann/Portia Elan
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May 08, 2026 |
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Hannah Kent & Tom Wright review: Amanda Lohrey/Deepa Anappara + International Booker
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May 01, 2026 |
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Tony Birch & Beejay Silcox review: Inga Simpson/Asako Yuzuki/Helen Bain
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Tim Rogers & Madeleine Gray review: Amitav Ghosh/Edwina Preston/Gwendoline Riley
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Michael Robotham & Geordie Williamson review: Steve Toltz/Ben Lerner/Siân Hughes
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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~ Festival Special: Irish Writer Colum McCann
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Short fiction from Louise Erdrich; essays by Alex Miller; and a surreal comic tale from Michael Winkler
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Lanchester, Groff and Costello — reviewed by Hannah Kent and Tim Rogers
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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~ Festival Special: Bringing the past to life with Emily Maguire and Jock Serong
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Siblings, secrets and shame in regional Australia in M L Stedman's A Far Flung Life and Eva Hornung's The Minstrels (REVIEWERS Michael Robotham and Roanna Gonsalves)
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Gabriel Tallent: Crux + Claire Thomas: On Not Climbing Mountains + Helle Helle: They (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent and Tom Wright)
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Does Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation do justice to the original novel?
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Tayari Jones: Kin + Nadia Davids: Cape Fever + two bloody rom-coms (REVIEWERS: Tony Birch and Beejay Silcox)
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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So Far Gone: Jess Walter + Good People: Patmeena Sabit + Eradication: Jonathan Miles (REVIEWERS: Tim Rogers and Madeleine Gray)
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Madeline Cash: Lost Lambs + George Saunders: Vigil + new releases by George Kemp and Steven Carroll (REVIEWERS: Michael Robotham & Roanna Gonsalves)
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Michael Mohammed Ahmad: Bugger + Jeanette McCurdy: Half His Age + Nina McConigley: How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent & Tom Wright)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Julian Barnes: Departure(s) + Cassie Stroud: Iluka + Patrick Charnley: This, My Second Life (REVIEWERS: Tony Birch & Beejay Silcox)
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Festival Special: Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet and more
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Summer Reading: at the Brisbane Writers Festival
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Summer Reading: with Alan Hollinghurst, Mariana Enriquez, Afra Atiq and Catherine Chidgey
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Summer Reading: It's time for poetry
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Summer Books Special: Novelist, essayist, raconteur Colm Tóibín
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Summer Reading: Jane Austen's Enduring Charm
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Summer Books Special: Irish writer Niall Williams' Time of the Child
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Summer Reading: Bloody Histories
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Some of My Favourite Books: Trent Dalton, Garry Disher and Heather Rose at Canberra Writers Festival
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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The Best Books of 2025
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Memoirs, Music, Mystery: new works from Sam Sussman, Sarah Hall, Margaret Atwood
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Salman Rushdie's latest/Scandi noir/Australian crime fiction wrap & more...
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Fiction bending reality in new books by Thomas Pynchon, Olivia Laing and Jeanette Winterson
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family + Chris Kraus and Graeme Macrae Burnet
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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October Book Buzz: Andrew Pippos, Kiran Desai, Olga Ravn & More
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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We reveal the books that didn’t quite make the Top 100
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Brisbane Writers Festival: Eric Puchner, Toni Jordan, Patrick Holland, Zeynab Gamieldien
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Four new memoirs: Mandy Sayer/Elizabeth Gilbert/Arundhati Roy/S. Shakthidharan
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Top Poems of the 21st Century
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Patricia Lockwood's auto-fiction-ish Will There Ever Be Another You + The Buffalo Hunter Hunter + The Original
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Ian McEwan's What We Can Know + new work from Olga Tokarczuk and Miranda Darling
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Still Turning Heads at 250: Jane Austen’s Enduring Charm
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Homework
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Greyhounds, dark academia and an Amish community in new fiction by Toni Jordan, R.F. Kuang and Ron Rindo
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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A simmering summer in Greece, rare snails, dystopia with a twist: new fiction by Amy Taylor, Leif Enger and Maria Reva
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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AI in America, a kidnapping in Corsica, the transformative power of boxing: books by Gary Shteyngart, Darrow Farr, and Lucas Schaefer
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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People turning into trees, mythical rivers rising...new novels by Rhett Davis and Gurnaik Johal (plus, Irish fiction with Colm Tóibín)
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award assessed
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Parties, scandals, sex, love: new novels by Nell Zink, Amy Bloom and the controversial James Frey
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Sydney Writer's Festival: The State of the Art of the Novel
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Mystery in new fiction from Ben Okri, Sameer Pandya and Anjet Daanje
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Sweat, sport and sharp Australian satire; And the 2025 International Booker Prize winner
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Popular fiction across space and time, and queer bush doof thriller in Thomas Vowles' Our New Gods
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Reading James Joyce's Ulysses for Bloomsday (and new fiction galore)
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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New fiction from Gail Jones, S A Cosby and Seán Hewitt
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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A vibrant gay coming-of-age story set in Geraldton
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May 29, 2025 |
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Sydney Writers' Festival: Top 100 Books launched with Alan Hollinghurst, Catherine Chidgey, Mariana Enriquez, Afra Atiq
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May 23, 2025 |
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On stage at Melbourne Writers' Festival with Hannah Kent and Beejay Silcox
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May 15, 2025 |
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A woman falls through the cracks of time in the first of Solvej Balle's seven-novel-series
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May 08, 2025 |
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A beach holiday told four ways in Luke Horton's Time Together
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May 01, 2025 |
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James Bradley's Landfall reveals a flooded, baked and dilapidated city
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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A love triangle set against the beauty of Montana in Eric Puchner's Dream State
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Folk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in Guatemala
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Andrea Goldsmith's The Buried Life - and a train steaming towards disaster . . .
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell + Tim Rogers and Zan Rowe on two new debuts
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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This week’s novels takes us to Zanzibar, Budapest and Renaissance Florence
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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On stage at Adelaide Writers' Week with Niall Williams, Charlotte Mendelson and Brian Castro
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Australian bestseller Diana Reid returns with Signs of Damage
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Mothers and Sons...is the story as fraught as the title suggests?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Alaska, folktales, mothers and daughters
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Sweden, France, New Zealand: books from around the world
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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A medical crisis brings one man close to love, art, and beauty
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Summer Reading: Quick, give me a recommendation!
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Summer Reading from Australia and the World
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Summer Reading: Fiction for a new year
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Summer Reading: Books to get your teeth into
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Summer Reading: What did you miss?
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Crime fiction and why we keep coming back: The repeat protagonist
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Best Books of 2024
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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The much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami, and plenty more...
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Literature in translation with special guests Bora Chung and Anton Hur + Yu Shi
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The Case for Critics - on stage at Canberra Writers' Festival with Christos Tsiolkas, Beejay Silcox and James Jiang
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Niall Williams’ Time of the Child might just be the big ‘feel-good book of the year’
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Dark Skies, a quest and nature writing in Inga Simpson’s The Thinning
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Matricide, the (Virginia) Woolfmother, Norwegian woods: Graeme Macrae Burnet, Michelle de Kretser, Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Melanie Cheng's The Burrow: can a pet rabbit heal a family dealing with tragedy?
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Tim Winton and the ruined future of his novel Juice
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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What's the verdict on Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo?
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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French provocateur Michel Houellebecq + Olga Tokarczuk's health resort horror
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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The rich and entitled are back but so are Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Malcolm Knox's The First Friend: a black comedy set in Stalin's Soviet Union
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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2024 mid-year review
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Vortex: a new novel from Rodney Hall, twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Rita Bullwinkle's Headshot: a luminous debut that steps into the boxing ring
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Weird fiction writer China Miéville's surprising collab with Keanu Reeves
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Willy Vlautin's The Horse: drenched in twangy music and heartbreak
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs: emotionally true, structurally complex
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Awfully Rich: Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise and more
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Fairytales are at play in Julia Phillips' Bear
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Catherine McKinnon's To Sing of War takes us to PNG during WW ll
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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A new fiction title from bestselling author Bruce Pascoe
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos, winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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In Parade Rachel Cusk blurs reality and fiction
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Kaliane Bradley's extraordinary time travel love story
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May 31, 2024 |
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Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch joins an all-star panel from SWF
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May 24, 2024 |
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A new novel from Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran
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May 17, 2024 |
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Claire Messud's epic family odyssey
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May 10, 2024 |
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Colm Tóibín's long awaited sequel to Brooklyn
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May 03, 2024 |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lost novel
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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One Day author David Nicholls is back
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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A never before published novel from Charmian Clift
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Bri Lee's The Work explores art, ambition, privilege and power
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road is "majestic"
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Téa Obreht, Asako Yuzuki, Steven Carroll: dystopia, butter, murder
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Reimagining Huckleberry Finn, a talking fox, art and alienation
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Three new Australian novels! Iain Ryan, Amy Brown, Sharlene Allsopp
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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A Trans-Tasman edition: Myfanwy Jones, Anna Smaill and Sulari Gentill
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Meditations on writing: Gail Jones, Jennifer Croft and a new anthology edited by Margaret Atwood
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Dreams and nightmares: Leo Vardiashvili, Teju Cole, Matthew Blake
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Mysteries and meta-physical thrillers: Kemper Donovan, Mike McCormack and Alex Michaelides
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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New fiction from Francis Spufford, Hisham Matar and Kiley Reid
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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We're back for 2024 featuring new novels from Katherena Vermette, Dolly Alderton and Jonathan Lethem
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Summer Reads: history remade, futures reimagined
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Summer Reads: True Crime, historical injustice, NZ satire and God's Teeth
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Summer Reads: from Aphra Behn to Max Porter
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Summer reading: heists, horses, Harlem, Ireland, rage
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Summer Reads: Impossible creatures, an Indian thriller and love in a cherry orchard
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Romance, crime, adventure: Summer reading recommendations
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Best Books of 2023: What to read now, next and over Summer
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Bad Art Mother: Canberra Writers Festival Book Club pod extra
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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The Book Club: Thrillers
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Reading the end of the world: Naomi Alderman, Michael Cunningham, Nicholas Jose, Katherine Brabon
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Lucy Treloar, Tony Birch, Paul Auster, A K Blakemore: Books to chew on
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Memory, history, ghosts and parrots: Richard Flanagan, Sigrid Nunez, Jayne Anne Phillips
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The Book Club: Historical Fiction with Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend and Zadie Smith's The Fraud
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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New novels from Christos Tsiolkas, Amanda Lohrey, David Diop and Siân Hughes
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Jellyfish, beauty, betrayal and Camelot: new fiction
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Melissa Lucashenko, Charlotte Wood and Bryan Washington: powerful new fiction
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Three major new works - Trent Dalton, Paul Harding and Suzie Miller
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The Book Club - Short Stories
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Lauren Groff, Daniel Mason and Anna Kate Blair: fables, trees, history and art
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Novels by Anne Enright, Paul Lynch and Emma Donoghue: love, pain, politics and Ireland
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Bringing the Past to Life: with Geraldine Brooks, Pip Williams and Sally Colin-James
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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The Book Club: Frank Moorhouse Retrospective
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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New fiction from Chris Womersley, Jenny Erpenbeck and Tan Twan Eng: Australia, Germany, Malaysia
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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New fiction from Peter Polites, Angela O'Keeffe and Guy Guneratne
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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New books by Ann Patchett, Naoise Dolan and Hwang Sok-yong: “Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs”
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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The Book Club - Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 shortlist
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Crooked Harlem, corrupt Wellington, bereaved London: books by Colson Whitehead, Emily Perkins and Elizabeth McCracken
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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A crying room, a road trip and blazing fury: Gretchen Shirm, Richard Ford and Claire Kilroy
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Fiction: The State of the Art
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Wifedom, hoarded memories and political road rage: New books by Anna Funder, Jen Craig and Priya Guns
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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The Book Club: The Greek Myths
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist 2023: pod extra interview special
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Gay saunas, dog walking and an extravagant lie: new fiction from R F Kuang, Dennis Altman and Briohny Doyle
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Strangers and Saints: Katherena Vermette and Benjamin Myers
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Politicians, ghosts and sad girls: books by Lorrie Moore, Robert Gott and Pip Finkemeyer
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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The Book Club - Romantic Comedy
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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From the Sydney Writers Festival with Shehan Karunatilaka, Jason Reynolds and Grace Chan
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May 26, 2023 |
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Grifters, pilgrims and scribes: new fiction from Emma Cline, Benjamin Myers and Robyn Cadwallader
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May 19, 2023 |
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History, identity, doppelgangers: new fiction from Deborah Levy, André Dao and Catherine Lacey
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May 12, 2023 |
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Poetry, jumpers, islands: new fiction from John Kinsella, Justin Cronin, Jente Posthuma
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May 05, 2023 |
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The Book Club: Salman Rushdie
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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New books by Max Porter, Han Kang and Yan Lianke
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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A bookbinder, Andy Warhol's typist and the cleverest woman in the world
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Dystopia, satire, gladiators and gardeners: new fiction from Eleanor Catton and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Book Club - weather in fiction with Hannah Kent and Robbie Arnott
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Mermaids, man overboard and more: new fiction from Julia Langbein and Stephanie Bishop
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Sleuths, silence, secrets: new fiction from Rebecca Makkai, Carole Hailey and Sebastian Barry
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Freedom, family and an all-consuming love: new fiction from Anindita Ghose, Vigdis Hjorth and Alice Nelson
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Podcast extra: Infidelity and compassion: changing morality in 19th century fiction
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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The Book Club: Infidelity
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Raucous aunts, warriors and dragons, Queer Nigeria and more: new fiction
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Trinidad, Antarctica and a corporate city-state in not-quite Korea: three new novels for you
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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From Barbados in the 1830s to the Melbourne present via the Scottish imaginary: three new books
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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From frontier western to a wandering ghost: new fiction
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Serial killers, thrillers and Shirley Hazzard: new books from Bret Easton Ellis and Deepti Kapoor
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Summer Reading: Where will books take you?
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Books Extra: Fiona McFarlane's The Sun Walks Down
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Summer reading: from the afterlife to New Zealand fiction, we have you covered
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Books Extra: Becky Manawatu and Leila Mottley
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Summer Reading: It's time to catch up on some great books you missed
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Books Extra: Audrey Magee's The Colony
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Summer Reading: love, sex, drugs and mischief
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Books Extra: the criminal (ish) minds of John Darnielle and Charity Norman
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Summer reading: Islands of the imagination
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Books Extra: Patrick Gale's Mother's Boy
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Shelflife: Four writers on the books that electrified them (no, not literally)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Summer reading extra: Republic and Revolution in England with Philippa Gregory
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Books of the year: 2022 with a panel of readers
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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The Book Club: Beyond the boundary
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Stolen bicycles, stolen love and stolen children: new books by Philip Salom, Celeste Ng and Arinze Ifeakandu
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Underclass, underground, undone: New Australian fiction from Fiona Kelly McGregor, Shaun Prescott and Yumna Kassab
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Blazing stories: new fiction from Gail Jones, Alex Miller and Luke Carman
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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The Book Club: Reading Kamila Shamsie
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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New fiction from Cormac McCarthy, Fiona McFarlane and Cole Haddon
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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George Saunders, Barbara Kingsolver, John Irving: an American Bookshelf
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Sisters at breaking point, a grizzly bear on the run and living with 100 ex-boyfriends
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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A whale gone mad, fierce Irish love and a Māori detective
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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The Book Club: The ouevre of Ian McEwan
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Pod extra: Hilary Mantel, the Booker prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy has died
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Siblings, revelry and fear: Peggy Frew, Kate Atkinson and Adrian McKinty
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Drugs, gangs, racism and reputation: three new works of fiction
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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A Renaissance wedding, a Mediaeval war and the ghosts of Modernism: three new novels
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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The Book Club: Is crime fiction a literature of resistance? (plus a guide to Korean lit)
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Three monks in a boat, the last white man, and wild wild women
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Joan of Arc re-imagined, dystopian coastlines and trees in the Oz literary imagination
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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A champion pedestrianist, an island haunted by grief and running into all your exes
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Big Weekend of Books at the State Library of NSW: writers special
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Reviewing the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner and shortlist
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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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
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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Paul Daley's Jesustown, A G Slatter's The Path of Thorns, and a guide to books for kids
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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Dystopias, ship's monsters and trees: Claire G Coleman, Jokha Alharthi, Jess Kidd and Jane Rawson
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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The Book Club: Celebrating Australian literature for the ABC's 90th
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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Frank Moorhouse from the ABC Archives: podcast special
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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A Métis family tree and a Sydney Leprosarium: Katherena Vermette's The Strangers and Eleanor Limprecht's The Coast
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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Abomination, modernism and crime: new fiction from Ashley Goldberg, Michelle Cahill and Matthew Spencer
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Racecourses, race, sex work and exile: new fiction from Geraldine Brooks, Leila Mottley and Zaheda Ghani
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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The Book Club: Horses and their Riders
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Ireland, Italy, England and Oz: four bold new works of fiction
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May 28, 2022 |
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From the Sydney Writers Festival: The Joy of Re-reading
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May 25, 2022 |
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From the Sydney Writers Festival: with Jackie Huggins, Damon Galgut and George Haddad
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May 21, 2022 |
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Making umbrellas in the afterlife: New books from Steve Toltz, Emiliano Monge and Domonique Wilson
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May 14, 2022 |
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Soap, silences and happy stories (maybe): new fiction from Paddy O'Reilly, Patrick Gale and Norman Erikson Pasaribu
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May 07, 2022 |
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The Book Club: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad & The Candy House
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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A moon colony, T S Eliot, Shakespeare and pain: new fiction from Emily St John Mandel, Steven Carroll and Mona Awad
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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A Glasgow teenager, a Roman emperor and a sneaky revolutionary: new books by Douglas Stuart, Julian Barnes and Charmian Clift
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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A snowy Tokyo, a haunted house and a cracked swimming pool: books by Jessica Au, John Darnielle and Julie Otsuka
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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The Book Club: reading New Zealand through Keri Hulmes' The Bone People + Lloyd Jones' The Fish
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Mexico, dystopian exile, and Oz suburbia: new fiction from Fernanda Melchor, Toni Jordan and Tom Watson
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Iceland, Nebraska and the Sunshine Coast: new fiction from Robert Lukins, Kári Gíslason and Harlan Coben
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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New fiction from Ireland and New Zealand
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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The Book Club: Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Love Marriage
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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New fiction from Omar Sakr, Karen Joy Fowler and Aoife Clifford
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Reading Korean history, fierce Italian parents and a theme park of funerary futures
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Reading our way to islands, monsters, balloons, snowscapes, heroes and more
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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The Book Club: Rebecca and Rebecca
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Reading Hanya Yanagihara, Gary Shteyngart and Nikki May
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Pip Williams and The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Summer Reads: Hannah Kent, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Sunjeev Sahota and Aravind Adiga
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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The Bookshelf that Made Me: Siri Hustvedt & Jennifer Mills
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Summer Reads: Patricia Lockwood, Ann Patchett, Simon Winchester, Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Jay Kristoff
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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The Bookshelf that Made Me: Tilly Lawless & Jon McGregor
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Summer Reads: James Ellroy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Guillermo Martinez and Charlotte McConaghy
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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The Bookshelf that Made Me: R W R Mcdonald & Jacqueline Bublitz
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Summer Reading: a wild party, Beowulf, and Gillian Mears
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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The Bookshelf that Made Me: Colm Tóibín and Emily Gale
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Summer Reading: Jane Austen, Joan Silber, Kevin Barry and Elizabeth Strout
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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The Bookshelf That Made Me: Sarah Winman and Nick Earls
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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The Bookshelf That Made Me: Ken Follett, Rose Tremain, Amie Kaufman & Jaclyn Moriarty
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Best Reads 2021 Part 2: General Adult Fiction
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Claudia Karvan and the Books that Made Us: Pod Extra
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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The Book Club: John Hughes' The Dogs + Kate Grenville's The Secret River
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Classic Australian Novels - Alexis Wright's Carpentaria
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Classic Australian Novels - Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Classic Australian Novels - Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Classic Australian Novels - Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Classic Australian Novels - Helen Garner's Monkey Grip
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Classic Australian Novels - Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Classic Australian Novels - Kate Grenville's The Secret River
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Best Reads 2021 Part 1: Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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On Christos Tsiolkas' 7 ½, Vietnamese smoky ghosts & a helluva book
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Behemoths, Novellas and Essays: reading recommendations
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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The Book Club: Amor Towles' The Lincoln Highway + Cormac McCarthy's The Road
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Adam Liaw and Hannah Kent: Star Reviewers #4
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Geraldine Hakewill and Graeme Simsion: Star Reviewers #3
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Tim Rogers and Pip Williams: Star Reviewers #2
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Marta Dusseldorp and John Safran: Star Reviewers #1
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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The Book Club: George Eliot's Middlemarch + Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Did you hear the one about the obscenity trial?
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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'Uneasy, Ambiguous and Strange': Why rewrite Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann?
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Yes, we are reviewing Sally Rooney's new novel
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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The Book Club: On Memory
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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How to read like an Australian writer
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Why you should read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (and meet his feistiest character)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Wolves, ghosts and a great flood: scary things in books
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Outraged tweeters, miniature soldiers and the flooded canals of Venice
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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The Book Club: Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth & the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Three novels of seclusion: by Mark Brandi, Sunjeev Sahota, Patrick McGrath
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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The deliberately depraved and dissolute worlds of James Ellroy and Lisa Taddeo
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: More Musical Mayhem with Taylor Jenkins Reid and Dawnie Walton
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Book Club: Turn up the Music!
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Can't Travel? Here's a collection of books that will transport you
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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A party to end all parties, a stranded whale, musical words and a train: what to read this week
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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A shrinking lake, a circus of wonders, and a baby: novels to make you feel and think
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Reading Jane Austen from the 1940s until now (and other adventures in reading and reviewing)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Patricia Highsmith's biographer answers your questions
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May 31, 2021 |
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Reading Western Sydney, a hot country town & fantasy Africa remade
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May 28, 2021 |
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Ern Malley Rides Again! Writes, we meant writes
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May 21, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Reading the world in Spinoza's Overcoat
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May 19, 2021 |
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Earwax, kidnappings and an octopus god
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May 14, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Sujata Massey and a woman lawyer in India in the 1920s
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May 12, 2021 |
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The Book Club: reading Kazuo Ishiguro in the sun
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May 07, 2021 |
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Live from the Sydney Writers Festival with Anita Heiss, Rick Morton and Emily Maguire
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: General Sir Peter Cosgrove reads historical fiction and political biography
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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New books by Patricia Lockwood, Jacqueline Maley, Peace Adzo Medie and Marco Missiroli
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Podcast extra: Maria Dahvana Headley and all that monstrous reading
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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New fiction from Ethan Hawke, Olivia Sudjic and Dirk Kurbjuweit
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Steven Carroll on reading wartime surrender in the scandalous Story of O
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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New books by Haruki Murakami, Patricia Engel and Blair James
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Fiona Mozley reads her way into London and Edinburgh
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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The Book Club: The Vietnamese diaspora and the aftermath of war
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual and the books behind it
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Trevor Shearston's The Beach Caves, Fiona Mozley's Hot Stew and what Caleb Azumah Nelson reads
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Robert Jones Jr on James Baldwin and the other writers that have shaped him
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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New fiction from Edward St Aubyn, Steven Carroll and Lisa Harding
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Daisy Buchanan is insatiable for books
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Ella Baxter's New Animal, Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual & the Sydney Writers' Festival is back
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Max Porter answers your questions
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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The Book Club: February — Art in fiction
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Simon Winchester's Bookshelf
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Reading Simon Winchester, Sarah J Maas, John Kinsella and Guillermo Martínez
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: What does Angie Thomas read?
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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New fiction by Caleb Azumah Nelson, Melissa Broder and Sònia Hernández
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: Andrew Pippos and the bookshelf that made Lucky's
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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On Robert Jones Jr's The Prophets, Una Mannion's A Crooked Tree, and a new translation of Beowulf
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Podcast Extra: More on the writer Madeleine St John
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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The Book Club 2021 No 1: Work
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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On Anna North's Outlawed, Raven Leilani's Luster & Kevin Barry's That Old Country Music
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Summer Bookshelf with novels by Malcolm Knox, Frances Cha & Garth Greenwell
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Summer Bookshelf with novels by Aravind Adiga, Richard Flanagan and Maggie O'Farrell
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Summer Bookshelf and The Dry on screen plus novels by Laura Jean McKay, Curtis Sittenfeld & Mieko Kawakami
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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Summer Bookshelf: The Rain Heron, Greenwood, A Theatre for Dreamers and Mayflies
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 2)
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 1)
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Naomi Novik
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Garth Nix
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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The Book Club No 8: Mining the past
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Susanna Clarke
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Maybe they're all aliens?
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Lev Grossman
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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A film set, a glass heart, and the unclaimed dead
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Graham Swift and the rough glittering world
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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A cafe, a shiver, a chase
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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The Book Club No 7: On the Coast and in the Water
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Tragedies, Sagas and Infinite Splendours
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Vanishing body parts and toxic relationships
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Andrew O'Hagan
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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A mythic quest and star-crossed love
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Chris Riddell sharpens his pencil
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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The Book Club No 6: Italy in translation
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Sue Miller
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Standing on the bridge, wrong side of the rail
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Maria Lewis
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Slipping between worlds and cities, in history, fiction and fantasy
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Meg Rosoff
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Christopher Paolini
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Sarah Moss & Ian McGuire
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Imagined taxonomies of life, love, death and memory
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Raymond E Feist
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Book Club No 5: Speculative Fiction and N K Jemisin’s The City we Became
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Kester Grant
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Podcast Extra: Nicholas Shakespeare
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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A tricky nemesis or two, the past, and a damp holiday camp
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Poisonous plants, talking rabbits, and a roadtrip of tears
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Thrillers, wars and labyrinths spiral through fiction
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Family secrets and the approach of General Winter in three new Australian novels
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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The Book Club No 4: Tara June Winch's The Yield and Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Creatures, sisters and relationships in fiction
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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A note in a forest, a train on fire, a gothic mood
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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History, fiction and plastic surgery
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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The Book Club No 3: Crime, thrillers, and Lawrence Wright’s The End of October
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Pod Extra: Poetry and Music
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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The discomfort of grief and memory
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Reading love and tragedy in Jamaica, Trinidad and India
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Race, apocalypse and robots
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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The Book Club No 2: Joan London’s The Golden Age & Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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A bird made of rain, a girl made of plantain, a family made of loss
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May 29, 2020 |
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What If, said the writer, What If?
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May 22, 2020 |
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Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)
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May 15, 2020 |
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A fossilised penguin walked into a bar (and other stories)
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May 08, 2020 |
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The Book Club No 1: Come on, join our Book Club
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May 01, 2020 |
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What did that dingo just say to me? And other adventures in fiction
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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What lives from books? What drama?
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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How to read Shakespeare's family
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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These books are edged with gold
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Reading in isolation? We’ve got you covered
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Novels from Poland, Norway and Crescent City
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Fiction that takes on the world
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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'The dice is shaken in a bone cup,' in Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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In which we give Tyson Yunkaporta a book that's too good
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Novels by Anne Enright, Aravind Adiga and Kiley Reid
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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New books by Carmen Maria Machado, Evie Wyld and Emma Forrest
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Novels by Eimear McBride, Romesh Gunesekera and Benjamin Myers
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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New books by Garth Greenwell, Isabel Allende and Jeanine Cummins
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Summer reads from India, Russia, Japan and the Amazon
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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When reading is gothic, digital or just plain hard
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Begin your reading year with Peter Goldsworthy, Sarah Bailey and Anna Krien
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Fantasy with Samantha Shannon, Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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Book recommendations from Kate Forsyth, Heather Rose and Alex McClintock
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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The Bookshelf's best books of 2019
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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New fiction from Ben Lerner, Marcy Dermansky and Curdella Forbes
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Pod Extra: Poet Lemn Sissay and the many foster children of literature
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Pod Extra: Charlotte Wood's The Weekend
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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New books from Julian Barnes, Petina Gappah and Niall Williams
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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André Aciman's Find Me, Inez Baranay's Turn Left at Venus and Zimbabwean literature
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Reading Los Angeles with Michael Connelly plus new Australian fiction
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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New books by Paul Lynch, Erin Morgenstern and Mary Costello
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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On Christos Tsiolkas' Damascus, Helen Phillips' The Need and the books on Chris Hammer's bookshelf
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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The Bookshelf at the State Library of NSW
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Political satire, historical fiction and short stories
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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The bookshelves of Jessie Burton, Corey White and Dominic Smith
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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New novels from Philip Pullman, Favel Parrett and Nino Haratischvili
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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New books by Edna O'Brien, Etgar Keret and Benjamin Myers
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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On Ann Patchett's The Dutch House, Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and Emma Donoghue's Akin
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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On Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, Elizabeth Strout's Olive, Again, Peter Goldsworthy's Minotaur and Alvydas Šlepikas's In the Shadow of Wolves
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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New fiction from Deborah Levy, Andrew McGahan and Claire G Coleman
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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On Salman Rushdie's Quichotte, Lucy Treloar's Wolfe Island, Lisa Taddeo's Three Women and the state of Oz crime
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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New fiction from Ben Hobson, Carolina Setterwall and Kate Forsyth plus an exhortation re reading
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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Novels by Téa Obreht, Wai Chim and Vasily Grossman (and a booklist from Julia Phillips)
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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On Alix Nathan's The Warlow Experiment, David Nicholls' Sweet Sorrow and Lisa See's The Island of Sea Women
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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Reading the Counterculture
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Kathryn Hind's Hitch, Herman Koch's The Ditch and Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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On Joyce Carol Oates' My Life As a Rat, Peter Polites' The Pillars and Me Myshelf and I with Sulari Gentill
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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Monsters in fiction with Sarah Perry
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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New fiction from Ocean Vuong, Colson Whitehead and Sarah Hopkins
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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On Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel, Roque Larraquy's Comemadre, Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island and the reading habits of Robert Forster and Fiona McGregor
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Bookshelf Podcast Extra with Damian Barr, Andrea Goldsmith, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Simon Cleary and Emma Ashmere
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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On Damian Barr's You Will Be Safe Here, Chip Cheek's Cape May and Alex Landrigan's Crossings
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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On James Ellroy's This Storm, Tishani Doshi's Small Days and Nights and Elizabeth Cook's Lux
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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On Susan Choi's Trust Exercise, Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls and Richard Anderson's Boxed
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May 31, 2019 |
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On Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein, Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha and Annaleese Jochems, Baby
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May 24, 2019 |
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Podcast Extra on traumatic reading, Chris Womersley's bookshelf and Julianne Schultz's digital futures
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May 23, 2019 |
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On Ali Smith's Spring, Mark Haddon's The Porpoise, Laila Lalami's The Other Americans & how digital is disrupting reading
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May 17, 2019 |
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Podcast extra on Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree and Jay Kristoff and Amie Kauffman's Aurora Rising
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May 16, 2019 |
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
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May 10, 2019 |
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The Bookshelf Live from the Sydney Writers Festival
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May 03, 2019 |
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Podcast extra on NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Les Murray, translation in China and Holly Throsby's bookshelf
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May 01, 2019 |
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On T C Boyle's Outside Looking In, Don Winslow's The Border and Simon Cleary's The War Artist
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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On Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me and Joanne Harris's The Strawberry Thief, and the bookshelves of Caro Llewellyn and Dervla McTiernan
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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On Siri Hustvedt's Memories of the Future, Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive, the Stella Prize and the reading habits of Jenny Brockie and Sam Twyford-Moore
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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On Max Porter's Lanny, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Dave Eggers' The Parade and Katherine Kovacic's Bookshelf
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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Novels by Andrea Goldsmith, Sarah Moss, Niviaq Korneliussen, Felicity McLean and José Luís Peixoto
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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On Leah Kaminsky's The Hollow Bones, Ben Marcus's Notes from the Fog, Julie Keys, The Artist’s Portrait, Katherine Kovacic, Painting in the Shadows and Andrea Goldsmith on books
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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On Mark Brandi's The Rip, Dervla McTiernan's The Scholar, Leïla Slimani's Adèle and Mohammed Hanif's Red Birds
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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On Carrie Tiffany's Exploded View, Peggy Frew's Islands, Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six and the bookshelf that made Karen Viggers
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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On Melissa Harrison's All Among the Barley, Nana Kwama Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black and Emiliano Monge's Among the Lost
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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On Sigrid Nunez's The Friend, Will Dean’s Red Snow and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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Reading Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction and Delphine de Vigan's Loyalties plus the bookshelves of Lynda La Plante and Ferenc Barnás
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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On Marlon James' Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Debra Adelaide's Zebra, Tessa Hadley's Late in the Day and what's on David Stratton's bookshelf
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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On Caoilinn Hughes' Orchid & the Wasp, Steven Carroll's The Year of the Beast, John Lanchester's The Wall and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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On Summer reading and Ben Okri's The Freedom Artist, Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities and Søren Sveistrup's The Chestnut Man
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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What Morris Gleitzman read on the factory floor, being amanuensis to Will Self, talking to Sofie Laguna, and a bit of Finnish Weird
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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Are you a rereader? And other thoughts for a Summer Bookshelf
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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Do you have book-shaped New Year's reading resolutions?
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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If you dog-ear your books, you're part of a long tradition
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Dec 28, 2018 |
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Summer reading with Tayari Jones' An American Marriage, Peter Cochrane's The Making of Martin Sparrow and talking to Tara Westover about her memoir Educated
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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Podcast extra edition: with Viv Albertine, Jessie Burton and Jorge Carrion
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Best reads of the year from Stuart Coupe, Nicole Abadee, Trent Jamieson and Cassie & Kate
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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What are the best books Trent Dalton, Shaun Prescott and Amelia Lush have read this year?
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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Reading Sydney Noir, finding plague pits in the backyard with Minette Walters, Anne Summers on fiction and new journalism and Sally Rippin's bookshelf
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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New fiction from Patrick Gale, Minette Walters, Rick Gekoski and Amitava Kumar
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Nov 23, 2018 |
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Podcast Extra edition: with Fiona Wright, Kimberley Knight, Stephanie Bishop and Moreno Giovannoni
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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On Anna Burns' Milkman, Esi Edugyan's Washington Black and Philip Teir's The Summer House
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Nov 16, 2018 |
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RN Armistice 100 The Bookshelf podcast extra: On Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That and a coda for Vera Brittain
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Nov 10, 2018 |
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RN Armistice 100: Australian WWI fiction, Indian writing & Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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New fiction from Andrew Miller, Anne Tyler and Victor LaValle
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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On Krissy Kneen's Wintering, Les Zig's August Falling, Margaret Morgan's The Second Cure, Ilka Tampke's Songwoman and more
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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On Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore, Sarah Perry's Melmoth and Kristina Olsson's own bookshelf
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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On Kristina Olsson's Shell, Markus Zusak's Bridge of Clay and Prayaag Akbar's Leila
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Reading habits, influences and recommendations from Australian novelists Emma Viskic, Melissa Lucashenko, Chris Hammer and Christian White
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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On books by J M Coetzee, Kate Morton, Sebastian Faulks, Rebecca O'Connor and John Connell
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Sep 28, 2018 |
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New novels from Louis de Bernières, Kate Atkinson, Andrew Sean Greer and Rebecca Lim
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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On Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls, Patrick de Witt's French Exit and the Australian Reading Hour
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman
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Sep 07, 2018 |
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On Sally Rooney's Normal People and Stephanie Bishop's Man Out of Time (just for starters)
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Aug 31, 2018 |
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Vale Crimewriter Peter Corris: Cliff Hardy has made his exit
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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On Anna Seghers' The Seventh Cross, Tiffany Tsao's Under Your Wings and books by Edward St Aubyn and Roland Schimmelpfennig
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Aug 24, 2018 |
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On Melissa Broder's The Pisces, Audrey Schulman's Theory of Bastards and V S Naipaul - with writers Felicity Castagna, Margo Lanagan and Khalid Warsame
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Aug 17, 2018 |
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On crime writer Ann Cleeves, Laura Elizabeth Woollett's Beautiful Revolutionary, Simon Mawer's Prague Spring and A People's History of the Vampire Uprising
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Aug 10, 2018 |
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On Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip, Chris Hammer's Scrublands and Gregory Day's A Sand Archive
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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On Mario Vargas Llosa, Libby Page's The Lido, Sharlene Teo's Ponti and Tim Ayliffe's The Greater Good
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Jul 27, 2018 |
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On Tara Isabella Burton's Social Creature, Barry Hill's Reason and Lovelessness, Natasha Lester's The Paris Seamstress and Sunni Overend's The Rules of Backyard Croquet
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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On Rachel Cusk's Kudos, Maria Tumarkin's Axiomatic and Kim Scott's bookshelf
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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Barbara Kingsolver, Alexander McCall Smith and why some novelists disappear
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Jul 06, 2018 |
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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On Peter Cochrane's The Making of Martin Sparrow, Willy Vlautin's Don't Skip Out on Me, Meg Wolitzer's The Female Persuasion and Sally Seltmann's bookshelf
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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Poet A F Harrold; Claire G Coleman, Melanie Cheng and Felicity Castagna telling 'home truths' through fiction; and SF writer Jay Kristoff
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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On Helen Garner, Jim Crace's The Melody, Charles Frazier's Varina, Nathaniel Rich's King Zeno, Kit de Waal's The Trick to Time & Danny Denton
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Aminatta Forna's Happiness, Emily O'Grady's The Yellow House, Meena Kandasamy's When I Hit You, Joseph Cassara's The House of Impossible Beauties and Westwords
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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Raymond E Feist's King of Ashes, Kate Mosse's The Burning Chambers and Lisa Genova's Every Note Played
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May 25, 2018 |
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Christos Tsiolkas on Patrick White, Stuart Coupe on Irvine Welsh's Dead Men's Trousers, Eleanor Limprecht on Alicia Drake's I Love You Too Much and Jonathan Green on Meanjin's short fiction collection
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May 18, 2018 |
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On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
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May 11, 2018 |
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Cassie and Kate present the Bookshelf live from the Sydney Writers Festival with Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan and Tayari Jones
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May 04, 2018 |
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Laura Lindstedt's Oneiron, Madeline Miller's Circe, Bridie Jabour's The Way Things Should Be and Madeleine Seys on Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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Rodney Hall's A Stolen Season, Leïla Slimani's Lullaby, Imogen Hermes Gowar's The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock and Natasha Lester's bookshelf that made her
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Review discussions of Gail Jones' The Death of Noah Glass, Antonio Muñoz Molina's Like a Fading Shadow, Åsne Seierstad's Two Sisters and Heidi Sopinka's The Dictionary of Animal Languages
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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Robert Hillman's The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, Robyn Cadwallader's Book of Colours, Dervla McTiernan's The Rúin & Mick McCoy's What the Light Reveals
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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Mark Brandi's Wimmera, Steven Camden's Nobody Real, Han Kang's The White Book, Holly Ringland's The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and reading Muriel Spark
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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Vale Peter Temple, Tim Winton's The Shepherd's Hut, Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone, Sarah Winman and Steven Camden's bookshelves
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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The Stella Prize shortlist, Danny Denton's The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, Dan Sheehan's Restless Souls and Marieke Krügel’s Look at Me
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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Katherena Vermette's The Break, Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad, Stuart Turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and Michael Mohammed Ahmad's The Lebs
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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Ceridwen Dovey's In the Garden of the Fugitives; Emma Glass', Peach; C J Tudor's The Chalk Man; Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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Shaun Prescott's The Town, Julian Barnes' The Only Story, Attica Locke's Bluebird Bluebird and Paul Lynch's bookshelf of inspiration.
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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Cassie and Kate on A J Finn's The Woman in the Window, Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God, forty years of the Australian Book Review and Claire Tomalin's A Life of My Own
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Feb 09, 2018 |
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Cassie and Kate on Gail Honeyman, Stanley Johnson and Tayari Jones
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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Kate and Cassie are joined by writers and critics Ashley Hay and Lev Grossman to discuss new fiction
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Jan 26, 2018 |