The Bookshelf

293 Episodes

1. Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery

   Published: 2/27/2025
2. Mothers and Sons...is the story as fraught as the title suggests?

   Published: 2/20/2025
3. Alaska, folktales and mothers and daughters in Eowyn Ivey's Black Woods Blue Sky

   Published: 2/13/2025
4. A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America

   Published: 2/6/2025
5. France, Sweden, New Zealand: books from around the world

   Published: 1/30/2025
6. Escaping a drunken rant in Catherine Jinks' Panic

   Published: 1/23/2025
7. Summer Reading: Quick, give me a recommendation!

   Published: 1/17/2025
8. Summer Reading from Australia and the World

   Published: 1/10/2025
9. Summer Reading: Fiction for a new year

   Published: 1/3/2025
10. Summer Reading: Books to get your teeth into

    Published: 12/27/2024
11. Summer Reading: What did you miss?

    Published: 12/20/2024
12. Crime fiction and why we keep coming back: The repeat protagonist

    Published: 12/13/2024
13. Best Books of 2024

    Published: 12/6/2024
14. The much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami, and plenty more...

    Published: 11/29/2024
15. Literature in translation with special guests Bora Chung and Anton Hur + Yu Shi

    Published: 11/21/2024
16. The Case for Critics - on stage at Canberra Writers' Festival with Christos Tsiolkas, Beejay Silcox and James Jiang

    Published: 11/15/2024
17. Niall Williams’ Time of the Child might just be the big ‘feel-good book of the year’

    Published: 11/8/2024
18. Dark Skies, a quest and nature writing in Inga Simpson’s The Thinning

    Published: 11/1/2024
19. Matricide, the (Virginia) Woolfmother, Norwegian woods: Graeme Macrae Burnet, Michelle de Kretser, Karl Ove Knausgaard

    Published: 10/25/2024
20. Melanie Cheng's The Burrow: can a pet rabbit heal a family dealing with tragedy?

    Published: 10/18/2024