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The Bookshelf

ABC listenwww.abc.net.au
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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Episodes

The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

Crime writer Michel Robotham and playwright Joanna Murray Smith join Kate and Cassie to discuss the work of Patricia Highsmith, high priestess of dark psychological thrillers. With cameos by Highsmith herself, her biographer Richard Bradford, crime writer and singer Jane Clifton, and featuring critiques from members of the ABC Book Club Facebook Group

Jun 04, 202154 min

Podcast Extra: Patricia Highsmith's biographer answers your questions

Ahead of this week's RN Book Club on Patricia Highsmith, her biographer Richard Bradford answers questions from readers and members of the ABC Book Club Facebook Group. An intriguing woman, and a writer who places you inside the perspective of her dark and disquieting characters

May 31, 202111 min

Ern Malley Rides Again! Writes, we meant writes

Ern Malley was the poet at the centre of Australia's most famous literary hoaxes: an invented poet, supposedly discovered by his sister, Ethel. Well, Ethel has been revived and rediscovered, made solid by the novelist Stephen Orr in his Sincerely, Ethel Malley. Kate and Cassie are joined by Debra Oswald and Gavin Williams as they read this and new novels by Jhumpa Lahiri and Imbolo Mbue

May 21, 202159 min
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