The Bookshelf
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.
Latest Episode
Fiction bending reality in new books by Thomas Pynchon, Olivia Laing and Jeanette Winterson (13.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family + Chris Kraus and Graeme Macrae Burnet
- October Book Buzz: Andrew Pippos, Kiran Desai, Olga Ravn & More
- We reveal the books that didn’t quite make the Top 100
- Brisbane Writers Festival: Eric Puchner, Toni Jordan, Patrick Holland, Zeynab Gamieldien
- Four new memoirs: Mandy Sayer/Elizabeth Gilbert/Arundhati Roy/S. Shakthidharan
- Top Poems of the 21st Century
- Patricia Lockwood's auto-fiction-ish Will There Ever Be Another You + The Buffalo Hunter Hunter + The Original
- Ian McEwan's What We Can Know + new work from Olga Tokarczuk and Miranda Darling
- Still Turning Heads at 250: Jane Austen’s Enduring Charm
- Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Homework
- Greyhounds, dark academia and an Amish community in new fiction by Toni Jordan, R.F. Kuang and Ron Rindo
- A simmering summer in Greece, rare snails, dystopia with a twist: new fiction by Amy Taylor, Leif Enger and Maria Reva
- AI in America, a kidnapping in Corsica, the transformative power of boxing: books by Gary Shteyngart, Darrow Farr, and Lucas Schaefer
- People turning into trees, mythical rivers rising...new novels by Rhett Davis and Gurnaik Johal (plus, Irish fiction with Colm Tóibín)
- 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award assessed
- Parties, scandals, sex, love: new novels by Nell Zink, Amy Bloom and the controversial James Frey
- New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale
- Sydney Writer's Festival: The State of the Art of the Novel
- Mystery in new fiction from Ben Okri, Sameer Pandya and Anjet Daanje
- Sweat, sport and sharp Australian satire; And the 2025 International Booker Prize winner
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