Booksplus - Full Program Podcast
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 208:32:43
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Synopsis
BooksPlus is the one-stop destination for bibliophiles, a digest of the week’s best interviews about books and writing across RN.
Episodes
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What did that dingo just say to me? And other adventures in fiction
24/04/2020 Duration: 54minJames Bradley's Ghost Species, Laura Jean McKay's The Animals in that Country, Jessica Moor's Keeper, Kirsten Krauth's Almost a Mirror
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What lives from books? What drama?
17/04/2020 Duration: 53minPolly Samson's A Theatre for Dreamers takes us to Hydra with Charmian Clift, George Johnston, Leonard Cohen and the rest; Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season takes us into a bloody Mexico; and Evie Wyld reveals a disquieting bookshelf.
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How to read Shakespeare's family
10/04/2020 Duration: 54minReading Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, Sophie Hardcastle's Below Deck, Kawai Strong Washburn's Sharks in the Time of Saviours and Julian Leatherdale's Death in the Ladies’ Goddess Club - and the state of play for the arts and books under this pandemic lockdown
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These books are edged with gold
03/04/2020 Duration: 54minEmily St John Mandel's The Glass Hotel, Mirandi Riwoe’s Stone Sky Gold Mountain, C Pam Zhang's How Much of these Hills is Gold and book recommendations that include Jane Austen, F Scott Fitzgerald and a couple of Very Big Books Indeed
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Reading in isolation? We’ve got you covered
27/03/2020 Duration: 57minTom Keneally’s The Dickens Boy, Joan Silber’s Improvement, Ceridwen Dovey’s Inner Worlds Outer Spaces, Ken Gelder’s The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt and Jo Lennan's In the Time of Foxes
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Novels from Poland, Norway and Crescent City
20/03/2020 Duration: 54minTomasz Jedrowski's Swimming in the Dark, Lars Mytting's the Bell in the Lake, Sarah J Maas's Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood - and being Mary Gulliver in 1702
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Fiction that takes on the world
13/03/2020 Duration: 01h20minColum McCann's Apeirogon; Jenny Offill's Weather and Tommy Wieringa's The Blessed Rita
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'The dice is shaken in a bone cup,' in Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light
06/03/2020 Duration: 54minNew fiction from Hilary Mantel, Vivian Pham and Abi Daré.
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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage
28/02/2020 Duration: 54minThree new novels: Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman, Graham Swift's Here We Are and Cho Nam-Joo's Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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In which we give Tyson Yunkaporta a book that's too good
21/02/2020 Duration: 54minOn Michael Christie's Greenwood, José Luis de Juan's Napoleon’s Beekeeper and the bookshelf that made crimewriter Abir Mukherjee
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Novels by Anne Enright, Aravind Adiga and Kiley Reid
14/02/2020 Duration: 54minAnne Enright's Actress, Aravind Adiga's Amnesty and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age
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New books by Carmen Maria Machado, Evie Wyld and Emma Forrest
07/02/2020 Duration: 57minLeap into the early 1980s, step onto an isolated rocky outcrop, and walk through a fraught dream house, all in a collection of new writing.
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Novels by Eimear McBride, Romesh Gunesekera and Benjamin Myers
31/01/2020 Duration: 58minA woman in a series of hotel rooms, two boys riding bikes in 1960s Sri Lanka, and a girl fleeing an ominous pairing of a Priest and a Poacher. New fiction.
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New books by Garth Greenwell, Isabel Allende and Jeanine Cummins
24/01/2020 Duration: 01h19sReviews and discussion of Garth Greenwell's Cleanness, Jeanine Cummins' American Dirt and Isabel Allende's A Long Petal of the Sea. New fiction, every week
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Summer reads from India, Russia, Japan and the Amazon
17/01/2020 Duration: 53minMe Myshelf and I with Indian writer Tishani Doshi; with Roger Pulvers, who reads Russian and Japanese; YA novelist David Nicholls and children’s author Katherine Rundell
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When reading is gothic, digital or just plain hard
10/01/2020 Duration: 53minWhat does it mean if you have to grit your teeth to get through a book? Endurance reading with too much pain or violence?
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Begin your reading year with Peter Goldsworthy, Sarah Bailey and Anna Krien
03/01/2020 Duration: 53minReading influences and recommendations from three Australian novelists
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Fantasy with Samantha Shannon, Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
27/12/2019 Duration: 53minThree fantasy writers share the bookshelves that have shaped them, and some writing insights too.
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Book recommendations from Kate Forsyth, Heather Rose and Alex McClintock
20/12/2019 Duration: 53minBoxing, fairytales and political scandal as three writers share the bookshelves that have shaped them.
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The Bookshelf's best books of 2019
13/12/2019 Duration: 53minA trio of readers join Kate and Cassie with their reading recommendations.