Podcasts

New fiction from Edward St Aubyn, Steven Carroll and Lisa Harding

Published: March 19, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Daisy Buchanan is insatiable for books

Published: March 17, 2021, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 18 seconds

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Ella Baxter's New Animal, Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual & the Sydney Writers' Festival is back

Published: March 12, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 14 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Max Porter answers your questions

Published: March 10, 2021, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 29 seconds

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February Book Club: Art in fiction

Published: March 5, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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The Book Club: February — Art in fiction

Published: March 5, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Simon Winchester's Bookshelf

Published: March 3, 2021, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 4 seconds

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Reading Simon Winchester, Sarah J Maas, John Kinsella and Guillermo Martínez

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 25 seconds

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Podcast Extra: What does Angie Thomas read?

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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New fiction by Caleb Azumah Nelson, Melissa Broder and Sònia Hernández

Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Andrew Pippos and the bookshelf that made Lucky's

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 3 seconds

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On Robert Jones Jr's The Prophets, Una Mannion's A Crooked Tree, and a new translation of Beowulf

Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Podcast Extra: More on the writer Madeleine St John

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 25 seconds

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The Book Club 2021 No 1: Work

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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On Anna North's Outlawed, Raven Leilani's Luster & Kevin Barry's That Old Country Music

Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing

Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Summer Bookshelf with novels by Malcolm Knox, Frances Cha & Garth Greenwell

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Summer Bookshelf with novels by Aravind Adiga, Richard Flanagan and Maggie O'Farrell

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Summer Bookshelf and The Dry on screen plus novels by Laura Jean McKay, Curtis Sittenfeld & Mieko Kawakami

Published: Jan. 1, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Summer Bookshelf: The Rain Heron, Greenwood, A Theatre for Dreamers and Mayflies

Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 2)

Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 43 seconds

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The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 1)

Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 3 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Naomi Novik

Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Garth Nix

Published: Dec. 7, 2020, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes

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The Book Club No 8: Mining the past

Published: Dec. 4, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 3 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Susanna Clarke

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 6 seconds

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Maybe they're all aliens?

Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 3 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Lev Grossman

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 12 seconds

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A film set, a glass heart, and the unclaimed dead

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 6 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Graham Swift and the rough glittering world

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 20 seconds

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A cafe, a shiver, a chase

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 33 seconds

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Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 57 seconds

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The Book Club No 7: On the Coast and in the Water

Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 33 seconds

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Tragedies, Sagas and Infinite Splendours

Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Vanishing body parts and toxic relationships

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 1 second

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Podcast Extra: Andrew O'Hagan

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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A mythic quest and star-crossed love

Published: Oct. 9, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Chris Riddell sharpens his pencil

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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The Book Club No 6: Italy in translation

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 8 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Sue Miller

Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 7 seconds

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Standing on the bridge, wrong side of the rail

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Maria Lewis

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 13 seconds

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Slipping between worlds and cities, in history, fiction and fantasy

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 54 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Meg Rosoff

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 55 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Christopher Paolini

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes

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Podcast Extra: Sarah Moss & Ian McGuire

Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 34 seconds

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Imagined taxonomies of life, love, death and memory

Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Raymond E Feist

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 42 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Dugald Bruce Lockhart

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 4 seconds

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Book Club No 5: Speculative Fiction and N K Jemisin’s The City we Became

Published: Sept. 4, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Kester Grant

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 43 seconds

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Podcast Extra: Nicholas Shakespeare

Published: Aug. 31, 2020, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds

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A tricky nemesis or two, the past, and a damp holiday camp

Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 6 seconds

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Poisonous plants, talking rabbits, and a roadtrip of tears

Published: Aug. 21, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Thrillers, wars and labyrinths spiral through fiction

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 57 seconds

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Family secrets and the approach of General Winter in three new Australian novels

Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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The Book Club No 4: Tara June Winch's The Yield and Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career

Published: July 31, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Creatures, sisters and relationships in fiction

Published: July 24, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 8 seconds

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A note in a forest, a train on fire, a gothic mood

Published: July 17, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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History, fiction and plastic surgery

Published: July 10, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 27 seconds

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The Book Club No 3: Crime, thrillers, and Lawrence Wright’s The End of October

Published: July 3, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 seconds

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Pod Extra: Poetry and Music

Published: July 1, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 22 seconds

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The discomfort of grief and memory

Published: June 26, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 51 seconds

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Reading love and tragedy in Jamaica, Trinidad and India

Published: June 19, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 56 seconds

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Race, apocalypse and robots

Published: June 12, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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The Book Club No 2: Joan London’s The Golden Age & Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus

Published: June 5, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 25 seconds

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A bird made of rain, a girl made of plantain, a family made of loss

Published: May 29, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 22 seconds

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