Dogs, Time Travel and October Book Releases

On this week’s edition of The Bookshelf: dogs in literature, writing about Alzheimer’s and fragmenting language, big books versus novellas, and why there’s so much time travel in books right now. Reviewers Tony Birch and Beejay Silcox tackle these big reading questions and share an overview of October new releases, with a focus on Carrie Tiffany’s The Lady with the Dog, Favel Parrett’s One for Sorrow and Claire North’s As We Fall Through Time.

Books featured

The Lady with the Dog, Carrie Tiffany, New South

One for Sorrow, Favel Parrett, Hachette

As We Fall Through Time, Claire North, Orbit

Other Books Mentioned

Dogs in literature

Women and Children, Tony Birch

The Odyssey, Homer

Discworld series, Terry Pratchett

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski

Clariel, Garth Nix