What are we reading, loving, being surprised or challenged by? What’s new and what have you missed? The Bookshelf is a program for dedicated readers and those who wished they read more.
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Friday 23 Feb 2018
Cassie and Kate are joined by writer Krissy Kneen and criminal psychologist Tim Watson Munro to discuss new fiction from Emma Glass, Ceridwen Dovey and C J Tudor; and literary history with Caroline Fraser on Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House books.
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Friday 16 Feb 2018
At Lunar New Year, Chinese-Australian writer Isabelle Li shares her insights into China’s dynamic literary and genre fiction; and with a nod to Valentine’s Day, she reviews Julian Barnes’ new novel, The Only Story. Crime writer Aoife Clifford reveals her past, as a shelver at a supermarket in regional Australia, feeding into the discussion of Shaun Prescott’s surreal novel, The Town, while also reviewing Attica Locke’s Bluebird Bluebird; and Irish writer Paul Lynch reveals the bookshelf that made him, and it includes Voltaire, Dante and Cormac McCarthy. So what will you read next?
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Friday 9 Feb 2018
Kate and Cassie discuss A J Finn's bestselling thriller The Woman in the Window, and are also joined by novelist Catherine McKinnon to talk Louise Erdrich's chilling and funny dystopian Future Home of the Living God, by editor Peter Rose to talk forty years of fiction and the Australian Book Review, and literary biographer Claire Tomalin on her memoir A Life of My Own and an entire life shaped by books. Also, the longlist for the Stella Prize for Australian women's writing.
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Friday 2 Feb 2018
Cassie and Kate are joined by writer Roanna Gonsalves and political journalist Dennis Atkins to review Gail Honeyman's popular Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Stanley Johnson's satire Kompromat and Tayari Jones literary An American Marriage. And a Twitter book club on Susan Cooper's #TheDarkisRising.
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Friday 26 Jan 2018
From the newest releases to catching up on the year's best books and rereading old favourites, what did Kate, Cassie and writer Ashley Hay read over Summer? (And this is where you will find a list of all books mentioned on today's program, so you can add them to your library bag.)
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Cassie and Kate both read Peter Carey's latest novel, and it was Cassie's selection for a review discussion.
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Writer Ashley Hay and Kate discuss Chloe Benjamin's complex and compelling novel, The Immortalists.
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Fantasy writer and critic Lev Grossman joined Kate to discuss two recent novels: a feminist sci fi novel and a YA story of mental health problems and friendship.
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Booksellers sell forty per cent of their year's books in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
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