The Bookshelf
Episodes
Cassie and Kate present the Bookshelf live from the Sydney Writers Festival with Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan and Tayari Jones
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What books will these three extraordinary writers offer up as influential titles on their own bookshelves? Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan and Tayari Jones...
Laura Lindstedt's Oneiron, Madeline Miller's Circe, Bridie Jabour's The Way Things Should Be and Madeleine Seys on Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by Maria Takolander and Tamara Neal to talk Laura Lindstedt's Oneiron, Madeline Miller's Circe, Bridie Jab...
Rodney Hall's A Stolen Season, Leïla Slimani's Lullaby, Imogen Hermes Gowar's The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock and Natasha Lester's bookshelf that made her
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by novelist Sandra Leigh Price and political scientist Shaun Crowe as they discuss Rodney Hall's A Stolen ...
Review discussions of Gail Jones' The Death of Noah Glass, Antonio Muñoz Molina's Like a Fading Shadow, Åsne Seierstad's Two Sisters and Heidi Sopinka's The Dictionary of Animal Languages
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate and Cassie are joined by reviewers Luke Stegemann, Sonya Voumard and Bri Lee as they discuss Gail Jones' The Death of Noah Glass, Antonio Muño...
Robert Hillman's The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, Robyn Cadwallader's Book of Colours, Dervla McTiernan's The Rúin & Mick McCoy's What the Light Reveals
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mediaeval historian Kimberley Knight and Sisters in Crime's Robyn Walton join Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh as they discuss four new books by Austr...
Mark Brandi's Wimmera, Steven Camden's Nobody Real, Han Kang's The White Book, Holly Ringland's The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and reading Muriel Spark
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Brandi wins the Indie Award for debut fiction for Wimmera; writer Cath Crowley reviews Steven Camden's Nobody Real; Kali Napier reviews Han Kang...
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cassie and Kate read variations on the 1940s in Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair and Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers, with insights and ex...
Vale Peter Temple, Tim Winton's The Shepherd's Hut, Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone, Sarah Winman and Steven Camden's bookshelves
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Fiction that takes on big ideas: Tim Winton's The Shepherd's Hut and Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone, with critics Mireille Juchau and Brett Evans
The Stella Prize shortlist, Danny Denton's The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, Dan Sheehan's Restless Souls and Marieke Krügel’s Look at Me
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate and Cassie are joined by chair of the judging panel for the Stella Prize, Fiona Stager, to reveal the shortlist; and writers Trent Jamieson and ...
Katherena Vermette's The Break, Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad, Stuart Turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and Michael Mohammed Ahmad's The Lebs
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cassie and Kate are joined by writers Pamela Hart, Bri Lee and Tara June Winch to review new books by Katherena Vermette, Ahmed Saadawi, Stuart Turto...
Ceridwen Dovey's In the Garden of the Fugitives; Emma Glass', Peach; C J Tudor's The Chalk Man; Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cassie and Kate are joined by writer Krissy Kneen and criminal psychologist Tim Watson Munro to discuss new fiction from Emma Glass, Ceridwen Dovey a...
Shaun Prescott's The Town, Julian Barnes' The Only Story, Attica Locke's Bluebird Bluebird and Paul Lynch's bookshelf of inspiration.
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Val...
Cassie and Kate on A J Finn's The Woman in the Window, Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God, forty years of the Australian Book Review and Claire Tomalin's A Life of My Own
09 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Er...
Cassie and Kate on Gail Honeyman, Stanley Johnson and Tayari Jones
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate and Cassie are joined by writer Roanna Gonsalves and political journalist Dennis Atkins as they discuss Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Comp...
Kate and Cassie are joined by writers and critics Ashley Hay and Lev Grossman to discuss new fiction
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Summer reading and reviews of Peter Carey's A Long Way from Home, Chloe Benjamin's The Immortalists, Naomi Alderman's The Power, John Green's Turtles...