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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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWhat 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.
The Bookshelf is hosted by ABC Australia. The show has published 535 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Yiyun Li's music meditation, Marlon James' Booker-shortlisted epic, Bonnie Garmus' latest" (30 October 2026, 55 minutes), "Beyond the Top 100: The books readers nearly voted in" (23 October 2026, 55 minutes), and "Australian artists, writers and readers share the Australian books they love most" (16 October 2026, 72 minutes).
The Bookshelf publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 58 minutes across 535 episodes.
Booking probability for The Bookshelf is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Bookshelf requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Bookshelf's contact route on record: verified email.
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ABC Australia hosts The Bookshelf, an arts podcast with 535 episodes published.
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Kate and Cassie discuss Chinese-born American writer Yiyun Li's Music Against the Night, an exquisite exploration of music and time. Plus, with regular guests crime writer Michael Robotham and novelist and university...
More than 280,000 readers voted. Now Kate and Cassie reveal the books that just missed Radio National's Top 100 Australian Books countdown . With special guests literary curator and Top 100 producer Michaela Kalowski...
On this special edition of The Bookshelf, ahead of the Top 100 Australian Books Countdown , Kate Evans speaks with historian Professor Martyn Lyons about the history of reading in Australia and what our reading lives...
This week, Kate and Cassie are joined by regulars Hannah Kent and Tom Wright to discuss three books that echo one another across themes of art, beauty, family and transformation. In Barbara Kingsolver's Partita, a young...
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In American Hagwon, the bestselling author of Pachinko, Min Jin Lee, explores family, education, ambition and the long shadow of economic upheaval, set between Seoul, Sydney and California. Louise Kennedy's Stations...
Kate and Cassie take a look at bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel's latest, Exit Party, an epic that follows a doppelgänger and a man who disappears from a Los Angeles party in 2031, leading to a journey across...
We step into Irish bestseller Donal Ryan's world in Where Are the Kings, a tender coming of age story about a boy navigating grief. Inside a fracturing mind in Emma Cline’s Booker Longlisted novel Switzy, read with...
Kate and Cassie with regular reviewer Tom Wright discuss new releases including Melissa Harrison’s The Given World and Malcolm Knox’s The Second Child. Plus, novelist and memoirist Mandy Sayer on her Top 3 Australian...
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Voting in Radio National's Top 100 Books countdown is about to open and this year we're celebrating Australian books. As you think about your own Top 10, Kate and Cassie bring together a trio of award-winning writers...
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Anjet Daanje's The Song of Stork and Dromedary, translated from the Dutch, explores the intimate work of death and care in the eighteenth century. Liane Moriarty returns to the world of Big Little Lies with Big Little...
We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.
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Omar Musa joins us after winning the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Plus, Michael Robotham and Madeleine Gray review Djamel White's Booker Prize-longlisted debut All Them Dogs and Téa Obreht's sweeping new novel...
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We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead’s latest novel Cool Machine is a vivid portrait of Black New York in the 1980s. The book reunites readers with furniture salesman and part-time fence Ray Carney. Kate Evans...
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Dave Eggers explores the messy intersection of art, friendship and growing up in Contrapposto , while Daniel Mason's Country People follows an academic family into a Vermont landscape full of stories, obsessions and...
This week on The Bookshelf, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh discuss new novels including Laura McPhee-Browne's Worry Doll, a story of desire, obsession and uncertainty; Leïla Slimani's I'll Take the Fire, the acclaimed...
A live recording from the 2025 Melbourne Writers Festival, with guests Hannah Kent and Beejay Silcox. Hannah Kent, Always Home, Always Homesick (Picador) Eimear McBride, The City Changes Its Face (Faber) Susan Choi...
We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.
Cassie McCullagh is joined by Jonathan Green this time, for a wide-ranging hour of new fiction, from Australia and beyond. First, Fiona Mozley’s unsettling Awake Awake , where a young woman begins to suspect her...
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From a sun-drenched Tuscan reset with a side of style advice (Andrew Sean Greer's Villa Coco via Michael Robotham ), to Ilka Tampke’s How To Love the World , a tender take on parenting and the pull of the bush (guided...
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