On Helen Garner, Jim Crace's The Melody, Charles Frazier's Varina, Nathaniel Rich's King Zeno, Kit de Waal's The Trick to Time & Danny Denton

Never in the short history of The Bookshelf has there been so much loathing for a novel! Which is the book that will generate so much dislike and despair? You will need to listen to find out.