Booksplus - Full Program Podcast

Literary fiction, short stories, music writing and SF and fantasy: Kate and Cassie sit down with a trio of readers, to discuss their best reads of 2018, and a few clues for books to be released in 2019

Novelists Trent Dalton and Shaun Prescott, and professional reader Amelia Lush, join Kate and Cassie to talk about their best reads of the year.

A podcast extra edition of the Bookshelf in which Cassie talks Sydney Noir with John Dale, Mandy Sayer and Mark Dapin; Kate talks to children's author Sally Rippin about the bookshelf that made her; Minette Walters has plague pits in her backyard, and Anne Summers talks about the writing strategies and impact of the New Journalism

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh talk new books with historian David Hunt and crime writer Aoife Clifford. The books in front of them? Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living.

Reading and disagreeing about Patrick Gale's Take Nothing With You, Rick Gekoski's A Long Island Story and Amitava Kumar's Immigrant, Montana with Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh, Liz Byrski and Bernard Cohen, while Minette Walters reveals the bookshelf that has made her.

You did what with your salad spinner? Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh continue their bookish conversation with poet Fiona Wright and historian Kimberley Knight, and writers Stephanie Bishop and Moreno Giovannoni share the bookshelves that shaped them

Kate and Cassie are joined by essayist Fiona Wright and historian Kimberley Knight as they discuss Anna Burns' Irish novel Milkman, Esi Edugyan's story of slavery and escape Washington Black and a Finnish novel of claustrophobic decay, The Summer House. Oh, and there are saints and tears in the mix too.

A conversation with Jean Moorcoft Wilson on the life of British war poet and novelist, Robert Graves; and a postscript on the life of writer and peace activist Vera Brittain.

How has the First World War been fictionalised, in Australia, over the past century? And what about the Indian experience, with 1.5 million soldiers at war: has that story entered its popular imagination?

On Andrew Miller's Now We Shall be Entirely Free, Anne Tyler's Clock Dance and Victor LaValle's The Changeling, with novelists Jane Rawson and John Tesarsch and literary academic David Ellison. (Speaking with Kate Evans on her lonesome this week, while Cassie McCullagh is away.)