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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.

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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#246

Some of My Favourite Books: Trent Dalton, Garry Disher and Heather Rose at Canberra Writers Festival

Trent Dalton (Gravity Let Me Go, Boy Swallows Universe), Heather Rose (A Great Act of Love... more

11 Dec 2025

54 MINS

54:36

11 Dec 2025

#245

The Best Books of 2025

The best books of 2025 as selected by Cassie McCullagh, Kate Evans and a panel of bookish ... more

04 Dec 2025

54 MINS

54:06

04 Dec 2025

#244

Memoirs, Music, Mystery: new works from Sam Sussman, Sarah Hall, Margaret Atwood

Superstars of the literary and musical world this week: Margaret Atwood’s new memoir; Hann... more

27 Nov 2025

54 MINS

54:15

27 Nov 2025

#243

Salman Rushdie's latest/Scandi noir/Australian crime fiction wrap & more...

Short story collections reveal the fragile beauty of human experience in Salman Rushdie’s ... more

20 Nov 2025

54 MINS

54:37

20 Nov 2025

#242

Fiction bending reality in new books by Thomas Pynchon, Olivia Laing and Jeanette Winterson

This week, Cassie McCullagh and Jonathan Green take a look at Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Tick... more

13 Nov 2025

54 MINS

54:35

13 Nov 2025

#241

Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family + Chris Kraus and Graeme Macrae Burnet

Stories of love, friendship, and the ties that bind - with a dash of dirt and darkness in ... more

06 Nov 2025

54 MINS

54:37

06 Nov 2025

#240

October Book Buzz: Andrew Pippos, Kiran Desai, Olga Ravn & More

Kate and Cassie are back in the studio, introducing a line-up of October releases that spa... more

30 Oct 2025

54 MINS

54:06

30 Oct 2025

#239

We reveal the books that didn’t quite make the Top 100

Join us for a lively [Top 100 Books of the 21st Century] (https://www.abc.net.au/listen/ra... more

23 Oct 2025

54 MINS

54:36

23 Oct 2025

#238

Brisbane Writers Festival: Eric Puchner, Toni Jordan, Patrick Holland, Zeynab Gamieldien

Joining Kate and Cassie on stage at Brisbane Writers Festival, authors Eric Puchner, Toni ... more

16 Oct 2025

54 MINS

54:35

16 Oct 2025

#237

Four new memoirs: Mandy Sayer/Elizabeth Gilbert/Arundhati Roy/S. Shakthidharan

We look at some compelling new memoirs, including Mandy Sayer’s No Dancing in the Lift, a ... more

09 Oct 2025

53 MINS

53:57

09 Oct 2025

#236

Top Poems of the 21st Century

What are your favourite poems of the last 25 years? The ones that you turn to, couplets me... more

02 Oct 2025

54 MINS

54:06

02 Oct 2025

#235

Patricia Lockwood's auto-fiction-ish Will There Ever Be Another You + The Buffalo Hunter Hunter + Th...

This week’s episode explores three new books. First up, Patricia Lockwood’s Will There Eve... more

25 Sep 2025

54 MINS

54:35

25 Sep 2025

#234

Ian McEwan's What We Can Know + new work from Olga Tokarczuk and Miranda Darling

We get stuck into some new fiction, starting with Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know, a meditat... more

18 Sep 2025

54 MINS

54:36

18 Sep 2025

#233

Still Turning Heads at 250: Jane Austen’s Enduring Charm

In the year of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, this lively and thought-provoking discussion ... more

11 Sep 2025

54 MINS

54:30

11 Sep 2025

#232

Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Ho...

Australian poet, artist, hip hop musician and author, Omar Musa, tells a story of Australi... more

04 Sep 2025

54 MINS

54:06

04 Sep 2025

#231

Greyhounds, dark academia and an Amish community in new fiction by Toni Jordan, R.F. Kuang and Ron R...

An Australian story of the tender, eager lives of greyhounds and their owners in Tenderfoo... more

28 Aug 2025

54 MINS

54:35

28 Aug 2025

#230

A simmering summer in Greece, rare snails, dystopia with a twist: new fiction by Amy Taylor, Leif En...

The Bookshelf continues to explore new fiction, beginning in this episode with Ruins by Am... more

21 Aug 2025

54 MINS

54:37

21 Aug 2025

#229

AI in America, a kidnapping in Corsica, the transformative power of boxing: books by Gary Shteyngart...

Kate and Cassie discuss Vera, or Faith, Gary Shteyngart’s new novel about a ten-year-old K... more

14 Aug 2025

54 MINS

54:36

14 Aug 2025

#228

People turning into trees, mythical rivers rising...new novels by Rhett Davis and Gurnaik Johal (plu...

Australian author Rhett Davis re-imagines the everyday in his novels. In his latest, Arbor... more

07 Aug 2025

59 MINS

59:25

07 Aug 2025

#227

2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award assessed

A critical assessment of the shortlist and winner of Australia’s most prestigious literary... more

31 Jul 2025

54 MINS

54:06

31 Jul 2025

#226

Parties, scandals, sex, love: new novels by Nell Zink, Amy Bloom and the controversial James Frey

Parties, scandals, sex, love, families, friendship, death – these books have, as they say,... more

24 Jul 2025

54 MINS

54:06

24 Jul 2025

#225

New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale

Stories of the sea – and a great white whale in Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle; Hungry gho... more

17 Jul 2025

59 MINS

59:00

17 Jul 2025

#224

Sydney Writer's Festival: The State of the Art of the Novel

What’s the state of fiction today? Four brilliant minds—Samantha Harvey (UK), Rumaan Alam ... more

10 Jul 2025

54 MINS

54:06

10 Jul 2025

#223

Mystery in new fiction from Ben Okri, Sameer Pandya and Anjet Daanje

The same question is at the heart of three very different international novels on The Book... more

03 Jul 2025

54 MINS

54:06

03 Jul 2025

#222

Sweat, sport and sharp Australian satire; And the 2025 International Booker Prize winner

What would make a great Australian sporting novel? Our guests discuss translating the love... more

26 Jun 2025

54 MINS

54:06

26 Jun 2025

#221

Popular fiction across space and time, and queer bush doof thriller in Thomas Vowles' Our New Gods

The latest best-selling novels from Taylor Jenkins-Reid (Atmosphere) and Fredrik Backman (... more

19 Jun 2025

54 MINS

54:05

19 Jun 2025