The Bookshelf

ABC (Australia)

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 and join out monthly Book Club on Facebook.

Episodes

Dystopias, ship's monsters and trees: Claire G Coleman, Jokha Alharthi, Jess Kidd and Jane Rawson

The Book Club: Celebrating Australian literature for the ABC's 90th

Frank Moorhouse from the ABC Archives: podcast special

A Métis family tree and a Sydney Leprosarium: Katherena Vermette's The Strangers and Eleanor Limprecht's The Coast

Abomination, modernism and crime: new fiction from Ashley Goldberg, Michelle Cahill and Matthew Spencer

Racecourses, race, sex work and exile: new fiction from Geraldine Brooks, Leila Mottley and Zaheda Ghani

The Book Club: Horses and their Riders

Ireland, Italy, England and Oz: four bold new works of fiction

From the Sydney Writers Festival: The Joy of Re-reading

From the Sydney Writers Festival: with Jackie Huggins, Damon Galgut and George Haddad

Making umbrellas in the afterlife: New books from Steve Toltz, Emiliano Monge and Domonique Wilson

Soap, silences and happy stories (maybe): new fiction from Paddy O'Reilly, Patrick Gale and Norman Erikson Pasaribu

The Book Club: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad & The Candy House

A moon colony, T S Eliot, Shakespeare and pain: new fiction from Emily St John Mandel, Steven Carroll and Mona Awad

A Glasgow teenager, a Roman emperor and a sneaky revolutionary: new books by Douglas Stuart, Julian Barnes and Charmian Clift

A snowy Tokyo, a haunted house and a cracked swimming pool: books by Jessica Au, John Darnielle and Julie Otsuka

The Book Club: reading New Zealand through Keri Hulmes' The Bone People + Lloyd Jones' The Fish

Mexico, dystopian exile, and Oz suburbia: new fiction from Fernanda Melchor, Toni Jordan and Tom Watson

Iceland, Nebraska and the Sunshine Coast: new fiction from Robert Lukins, Kári Gíslason and Harlan Coben

New fiction from Ireland and New Zealand