Cassie McCullagh

Thank you so much for joining us on the bookshop.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's been fantastic to have you as well as you, Helen Groth.

Thank you for joining us as well.

It's a pleasure.

Thanks for having me.

Helen specialises in Victorian literature at the University of New South Wales.

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Next week, Sally Rooney's new novel, Normal People, and also... Australian writer Stephanie Bishop's new novel, Man Out of Time.

And I have to say, I loved the last novels from both of those writers, so looking forward to next week.

See you then.

the bookshelf i'm kate evans and i'm cassie mccullough with you every week to talk new fiction we're also more than happy to hear from you one listener contacted us to say he was reading and enjoying gregory day's a sand archive now we talked about that here on the show a few weeks ago we were unfair he said especially in our comparison with other books i think day is one of our finest regional writers he argued who occasionally rises well above that description

And arguing back and keeping that bookish conversation going is something we really value.

So don't be shy about letting us know what you think.

She says that books with notes are mailed to us from a group called Book Talk, for which we pay $5 each.

Books are chosen at the beginning of the year from a list supplied.

Everyone's usually read the book, she says, and we always have a spirited discussion with many different points of view.

We also heard from Bob from Canberra, who's part of an audiobook group that meets at the Canberra Blind Society.

There are also specialist book clubs.

We've heard about a yoga book club, sci-fi and fantasy book clubs.