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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New fiction from Ben Lerner, Marcy Dermansky and Curdella Forbes
06/12/2019 Duration: 54minNovelist Graeme Simsion and reviewer Nicole Abadee on Marcy Dermansky's Very Nice and Curdella Forbes' A Tall History of Sugar, and reading America in Ben Lerner's The Topeka School
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Pod Extra: Poet Lemn Sissay and the many foster children of literature
04/12/2019 Duration: 55minA podcast special edition of the Bookshelf, in which English poet and writer Lemn Sissay reveals his life and history as a child in care, and connects it to the many foster children of literature.
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Pod Extra: Charlotte Wood's The Weekend
03/12/2019 Duration: 45minIn this podcast extra edition of The Bookshelf, writer Charlotte Wood talks to Kate Evans about writing friendship, ageing, grief and joy.
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Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn
29/11/2019 Duration: 53minFrom stage to screen to page, Leah Purcell has taken Henry Lawson's 1890s story of a lone woman in a tough landscape and remade it as her own in The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson. And thrillers and crime stories with recurring characters.
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New books from Julian Barnes, Petina Gappah and Niall Williams
22/11/2019 Duration: 53minRewriting the end of the 19th century in London; rewriting colonial Africa from the inside; and lighting up Faha, Ireland
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André Aciman's Find Me, Inez Baranay's Turn Left at Venus and Zimbabwean literature
15/11/2019 Duration: 01h01minWhat will fans of André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name make of his follow-up novel, Find Me?
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Reading Los Angeles with Michael Connelly plus new Australian fiction
08/11/2019 Duration: 54minCrime writing dominates this week's show, with Garry Disher's novel Peace and Michael Connelly (Bosch) sharing his own bookshelf. And reading novellas with Griffith Review's Ashley Hay
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New books by Paul Lynch, Erin Morgenstern and Mary Costello
01/11/2019 Duration: 59minFantasy writer Garth Nix and arts journalist Martin Portus join Cassie and Kate to discuss a collection of water-filled novels: Beyond the Sea, The Starless Sea and The River Capture
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On Christos Tsiolkas' Damascus, Helen Phillips' The Need and the books on Chris Hammer's bookshelf
25/10/2019 Duration: 54minKate and Cassie with guests Meredith Lake (Soul Search), Karen Viggers (The Orchardist's Daughter) and Chris Hammer (Scrubland, Silver) as they discuss new fiction by Christos Tsiolkas, Helen Phillips and Jacqueline Woodson - and many more besides
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The Bookshelf at the State Library of NSW
18/10/2019 Duration: 58minKate and Cassie onstage with writers Holden Sheppard (Invisible Boys) and Roanna Gonsalves (The Permanent Resident), and Mitchell Librarian Richard Neville, as they read new novels by Australian writers Charlotte Wood and Katherine Johnson, American Alice Hoffman and Frenchman Philippe Besson
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Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls
15/10/2019 Duration: 01h19sBook influences and recommendations from India, Russia, Japan, Australia, the USA and more, in a podcast extra edition of The Bookshelf
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Political satire, historical fiction and short stories
11/10/2019 Duration: 56minPolitical satire from Ian McEwan and Heather Rose, a short story collection by Zadie Smith and the state of historical fiction with Robert Gott and Elisabeth Storrs
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The bookshelves of Jessie Burton, Corey White and Dominic Smith
08/10/2019 Duration: 56minMe Myshelf and I, as novelists Jessie Burton and Dominic Smith (The Electric Hotel), and comedian Corey White, reveal the books and reading that has shaped them
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New novels from Philip Pullman, Favel Parrett and Nino Haratischvili
04/10/2019 Duration: 53minOn Philip Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth, Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love and Nino Haratischvili's The Eighth Life (For Brilka)
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New books by Edna O'Brien, Etgar Keret and Benjamin Myers
27/09/2019 Duration: 01h02sKate and Cassie are joined by writer Chloe Higgins and interviewer Michaela Kalowski as they discuss Edna O'Brien's Girl, Benjamin Myers' The Offing and Etgar Keret's Fly Already
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On Ann Patchett's The Dutch House, Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and Emma Donoghue's Akin
20/09/2019 Duration: 54minAutoethnographer and storyteller Denise Chapman and shortstory writer Amanda O'Callaghan join Kate and Cassie as they discuss Ann Patchett's The Dutch House, Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and Emma Donoghue's Akin
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On Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, Elizabeth Strout's Olive, Again, Peter Goldsworthy's Minotaur and Alvydas Šlepikas's In the Shadow of Wolves
13/09/2019 Duration: 53minNovelist Hannah Kent and literary academic Stephen Knight join Cassie and Kate as they discuss four new novels: Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, Elizabeth Strout's Olive, Again, Peter Goldsworthy's Minotaur and Alvydas Šlepikas's In the Shadow of Wolves
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New fiction from Deborah Levy, Andrew McGahan and Claire G Coleman
06/09/2019 Duration: 53minBookseller Jon Page and historian Clare Corbould join Cassie and Kate as they discuss Deborah Levy's The Man Who Saw Everything, the late Andrew McGahan's The Rich Man's House and Claire G Coleman's The Old Lie
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On Salman Rushdie's Quichotte, Lucy Treloar's Wolfe Island, Lisa Taddeo's Three Women and the state of Oz crime
30/08/2019 Duration: 53minGuests Susan Wyndham, Krissy Kneen and Catherine du Peloux Menagé join Kate and Cassie as they travel across America with Salman Rushdie, onto a crumbling island with Lucy Treloar, through women's desire with Lisa Taddeo and toward coastal-western-noir as they ponder crime fiction
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New fiction from Ben Hobson, Carolina Setterwall and Kate Forsyth plus an exhortation re reading
23/08/2019 Duration: 57minKatherine Rundell makes the case for Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are so Old and Wise, and Meg Keneally and Johan Gabrielsson join Cassie and Kate to talk new fiction from Ben Hobson, Carolina Setterwall and Kate Forsyth