The Bookshelf

• On stage at Adelaide Writers' Week with Niall Williams, Charlotte Mendelson and Brian Castro

  This edition of the Bookshelf was recorded on stage at Adelaide Writers' Week on Sunday 2 March – with Irish writer Niall Williams (Time of the Child), English writer Charlotte Mendelson (Wife) and all the way from the Adelaide Hills, Australian writer Brian Castro (Chinese Postman). How and when do they do their best reading, what have books meant to them, what are their influences and touchstones? With a surprising swerve or to into the bath and to the funeral of a beloved author.BOOKS MENTIONEDLaurence Sterne, worksJames Joyce, works, UlyssesSamuel Beckett, worksP. W. Joyce, English As We Speak It in IrelandCharles Dickens, Great Expectations; Bleak HouseW.G.Sebald, Rings of Saturn; AusterlitzThomas Bernhard, worksHelen Garner, Diaries; The Children's Bach; Monkey Grip  Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls; MemoirHermann Broch, The Death of VirgilSalvatore Satta, The Day of JudgmentSamantha Harvey, Orbital  Ceridwen Dovey, Only the AstronautsLouise Glück, worksAnne Carson, worksJelena Dinic, worksAlistair MacLeod, Ireland and Other StoriesJohn McGahern, Amongst WomenPercival Everett, JamesHilary Mantel, Wolf Hall  James McBride, The Heaven and Earth Grocery StorePatrick Lane, There is a SeasonAlba de Céspedes, worksElena Ferrante, works

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• Australian bestseller Diana Reid returns with Signs of Damage

  Four women’s lives intertwined between Africa and the USA in Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count. Plus, secrets and trauma in the South of France  in Australian novelist Diana Reid’s new one, Signs of Damage; and into the Swedish wilderness to observe a group of seven unlikely people in indie musician turned novelist Annika Norlin’s Colony.BOOKSChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count, Fourth EstateDiana Reid, Signs of Damage, Ultimo PressAnnika Norlin, Colony, (translated from the Swedish by Alice E. Olsson), ScribeGUESTSPeter Polites, Western Sydney writer whose books include the novels Down the Hume and The Pillars, and the memoir-fiction hybrid, God Forgets About the PoorStephanie Smee is a translator who works from French into English and whose translations include Hannelore Cayre’s The Godmother, Helene Gaudy’s A World with No Shore and Marie-Helene La Fon’s The Son’s StoryOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun; AmericanaDiana Reid, Love and Virtue; Seeing Other PeopleFiona McGregor, Chemical Palace; IrisJames Parker, Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being AliveCREDITSPresenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullaghProducer: Kate Evans, Sarah CorbettSound engineer: Ann Marie Debettencor, Simon BranthwaiteExecutive producer: Rhiannon Brown

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• Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery

  Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery; 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s We Do Not Part explores massacres on Jeju Island during (and after) the Korean War, stories actively repressed by both the South Korean and American governments; and Australian novelist Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore takes us to a fictional island between Tasmania and Antarctica, inhabited only by a man and his three children.BOOKSColum McCann, Twist, Bloomsbury Han Kang, We Do Not Part (translated from Korean by e. yaewon & Page Aniyah Morris), Hamish Hamilton Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore, Penguin Random House GUESTSBeejay Silcox, critic, essayist and regular onstage interviewer of writers. Until last week – Director of the Canberra Writers FestivalBernadette Brennan, literary scholar and judge, whose books include literary biographies of Australian Helen Garner and Gillian MearsOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDJoseph Conrad, Heart of DarknessSusannah Clarke, PiranesiSarah Manguso, LiarsAlba de Céspedes, No Turning BackCREDITSPresenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullaghProducer, Kate Evans + Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John JacobsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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• Mothers and Sons...is the story as fraught as the title suggests?

  An examination of family dynamics through three novels...Adam Haslett’s Mothers and Sons reflects on unspoken stories and familial divides; The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr, set in 1970s Ireland, tells the story of a family that takes in a child washed ashore, and Robert Lukins’ Somebody Down There Likes Me depicts an uber-rich family who gather together as their wealth and corruption begin to unravel.BOOKSAdam Haslett, Mothers and Sons, Hamish HamiltonRobert Lukins, Somebody Down There Likes Me, Allen & UnwinGarrett Carr, The Boy from the Sea, PicadorGUESTSClaire Mabey, founder of NZ’s Verb Wellington literary organisation and writers’ festival; books editor at The Spinoff; writer whose middle-grade children’s book The Raven's Eye Runaways was published last year. And, here's a link to the NZ book awards Claire mentions: https://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/)Jonty Claypole, CEO Red Room Poetry; co-host of podcast The Secret Life of Books; author, Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDPercival Everett, JamesCharles Dickens, David CopperfieldBarbara Kingsolver, Demon CopperheadSamantha Harvey, OrbitalRobert Lukins, The Everlasting Sunday; LovelandF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbyHerman Melville, Moby DickShakespeare, HamletEvelyn Waugh, Brideshead RevisitedAudrey Magee, The ColonyPaul Murray, The Bee StingPaul Lynch, Prophet SongColm Toibin, worksNiall Williams, Time of the ChildFiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks DownJames Baldwin, Giovanni's RoomJane Austen, Pride and PrejudiceMarilynne Robinson, GileadSusannah Clarke, PiranesiDamien Wilkins, DeliriousHarriet Baker, Rural HoursCREDITSPresenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullaghProducer: Kate Evans, Sarah CorbettSound engineer: John Jacobs, Ann Marie DebettencorExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown 

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• Alaska, folktales and mothers and daughters in Eowyn Ivey's Black Woods Blue Sky

  Alaska, folktales and mothers and daughters in Eowyn Ivey's Black Woods Blue Sky. Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Anne Tyler is back with Three Days in June, another novel about mothers and daughters; and Italian novelist Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection, a critique of social media and contemporary life.BOOKSEowyn Ivey, Black Woods, Blue Sky, Tinder PressAnne Tyler, Three Days in June, Chatto & WindusVincenzo Latronico, Perfection (translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes), TextGUESTSAlice Pung, novelist, memoirist and editor. Her books include Unpolished Gem, Laurinda and One Hundred DaysDylin Hardcastle, novelist, artist and screenwriter, currently completing their PhD. Their novels include Below Deck and A Language of Limbs OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDEowyn Ivey, The Snow ChildJohn Marsden, worksAnne Tyler, worksJazz Money, Mark the DawnDavid Owen Kelly, Host CityKirsty Jagger, RoseghettoWeike Wang, Joan is OkayCREDITSPresenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullaghProducer: Kate Evans, Sarah CorbettSound engineer: Craig Tilmouth, John Jacobs, Tegan NichollsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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