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The Bookshelf

ABC Australia

abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-bookshelf

Weekly podcast. Next episode on Friday.

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.

246 episodes • 0 archived •

The Bookshelf Special

Yesterday

Yesterday

54 mins

Fiona Kelly McGregor: The Trap + Debra Adelaide: When I Am Sixty-Four + Yann Martel: Son of Nobody (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent and Tom Wright)

Yesterday

Yesterday

54 mins

Michael Winkler: Griefdogg + Louise Erdrich: Python's Kiss + Alex Miller: Journey to the End of Time + Mark Haddon: Leaving Home (REVIEWERS: Tony Birch and Shannon Burns)

March 27

March 27

54 mins

John Lanchester: Look What You Made Me Do + Lauren Groff: Brawler + Mary Costello: A Beautiful Loan (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent and Tim Rogers)

March 20

March 20

58 mins

Festival Special: Bringing the past to life with Emily Maguire and Jock Serong

March 13

March 13

54 mins

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)

March 6

March 6

54 mins

Gabriel Tallent: Crux + Claire Thomas: On Not Climbing Mountains + Helle Helle: They (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent and Tom Wright)

February 27

February 27

54 mins

Does Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation do justice to the original novel?

February 25

February 25

17 mins

Tayari Jones: Kin + Nadia Davids: Cape Fever + two bloody rom-coms (REVIEWERS: Tony Birch and Beejay Silcox)

February 20

February 20

54 mins

So Far Gone: Jess Walter + Good People: Patmeena Sabit + Eradication: Jonathan Miles (REVIEWERS: Tim Rogers and Madeleine Gray)

February 13

February 13

54 mins

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