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The Bookshelf

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Summer Reading: Fiction for a new year

Summer Reading: Fiction for a new year

2025-01-03
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Time to reassess your TBR pile – To Be Read, that is – ready for 2025. To help, some of the best books and literary discussions from the past year.

Kate and Cassie's review of Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot was first broadcast on 16 August 2024

Kate and Richard Aedy's discussion of Catherine McKinnon's To Sing of War was first broadcast on 28 June 2024

Cassie and Kate first delved into Rodney Hall's Vortex on 22 August 2024

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