The Bookshelf Podcast
1) Salman Rushdie's latest/Scandi noir/Australian crime fiction wrap & more...
Short story collections reveal the fragile beauty of human experience in Salman Rushdieâs The Eleventh Hour, Liadan NĂ Chuinnâs Everyone Still Here, Morgan Taltyâs Night of the Living Rez, and Tony Bi...Show More
2) Fiction bending reality in new books by Thomas Pynchon, Olivia Laing and Jeanette Winterson
This week, Cassie McCullagh and Jonathan Green take a look at Thomas Pynchonâs Shadow Ticket - a cryptic plunge into paranoia and power, where nothing is quite what it seems. Plus, Olivia Laingâs The ...Show More
3) Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family + Chris Kraus and Graeme Macrae Burnet
Stories of love, friendship, and the ties that bind - with a dash of dirt and darkness in three new works of fiction...Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family, a sharp exploration of friendship, love, and what...Show More
4) October Book Buzz: Andrew Pippos, Kiran Desai, Olga Ravn & More
Kate and Cassie are back in the studio, introducing a line-up of October releases that span continents, centuries, and genres, kicking off with an Australian story set in the world of print journalism...Show More
5) We reveal the books that didnât quite make the Top 100
Join us for a lively Top 100 Books of the 21st Century after-party! Following last weekendâs extraordinary two-day countdown, this event recaps the results of over 288,000 votes cast by readers acros...Show More
6) Brisbane Writers Festival: Eric Puchner, Toni Jordan, Patrick Holland, Zeynab Gamieldien
Joining Kate and Cassie on stage at Brisbane Writers Festival, authors Eric Puchner, Toni Jordan, Patrick Holland, and Zeynab Gamieldien discuss their most recent novels and the books and writers who ...Show More
7) Four new memoirs: Mandy Sayer/Elizabeth Gilbert/Arundhati Roy/S. Shakthidharan
We look at some compelling new memoirs, including Mandy Sayerâs No Dancing in the Lift, a tribute to her jazz drummer father, capturing the grit of Kings Cross and the grace of caregiving. Elizabeth G...Show More
8) Top Poems of the 21st Century
What are your favourite poems of the last 25 years? The ones that you turn to, couplets memorised and shared, the lines that leapt from the page or stage. Poetry that both defined and defied space and...Show More
9) Patricia Lockwood's auto-fiction-ish Will There Ever Be Another You + The Buffalo Hunter Hunter + The Original
This weekâs episode explores three new books. First up, Patricia Lockwoodâs Will There Ever Be Another You, a third-person autofiction-ish tale that includes a family trip to Scotland, grief and fairi...Show More
10) Ian McEwan's What We Can Know + new work from Olga Tokarczuk and Miranda Darling
We get stuck into some new fiction, starting with Ian McEwanâs What We Can Know, a meditation on a future shaped by climate disaster and memory. Weâre joined by Australian authors Madeleine Gray and G...Show More