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Every book cover is a door.
Bookshelf Reviews is a fortnightly podcast for people who love books the way I love them — the kind that pull you somewhere completely unexpected, the kind that make you want to pack a bag, the kind that stay with you long after the last page.
Each episode takes one book, opens it up honestly and connects it to the place it is set. Historical fiction, adventure and literary travel — reviewed without pretension and without spoilers.
I'm Shane. I've been reading historical fiction my entire life and I average a book a week. This show is my honest take on the books worth your time — where they take you, what they make you feel and whether you should read them.
Every episode is 5 to 6 minutes. Something warm to listen to over a coffee.
Current series — The France Trilogy. Three books set in three corners of France. Paris, Dijon and Carcassonne. Three very different journeys.
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S1E5 Bookshelf Reviews — Episode 5 | Berlin Wife | Marion Kummerow | Berlin Series
France is done. The Berlin Series begins.Berlin Wife by Marion Kummerow takes us to Germany between 1922 and 1936 — the years of Hitler's ascendancy. The years in which everything that would come was…
S1E4 Bookshelf Reviews — Episode 4 | Labyrinth | Kate Mosse | France Trilogy
The France Trilogy ends where history began.Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, one goes far.An ancient Occitan proverb. Eight centuries old. Spoken in Kate Mosse's Labyrinth by two women who never…
S1E3 Bookshelf Reviews — Episode 3 | The French Affair | Theresa Howes | France Trilogy
Today we stay in France. But this is a very different France from last time.No barges. No lavender fields. No slow journey south.This is Occupied Dijon. 1940s. And the tension is underneath…
S1E2 Bookshelf Reviews — Episode 2 | The Little Paris Bookshop | Nina George | France Trilogy
Today we head to France. Specifically to a bookshop — not on a high street, not in a mall — on a barge, moored quietly along the Seine in the heart of Paris.The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George…
S1E1 Bookshelf Reviews — Episode 1 | Every Book Cover is a Door
Welcome to Bookshelf Reviews. I'm Shane — and this is where book lovers come to talk books.In this pilot episode I open up a quote that stopped me in my tracks:"To read a book is to take a journey,…
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Bookshelf Review has published 5 episodes since April 2026, covering topics in Arts, Books.
Bookshelf Review is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 6m.
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