Cassie McCullough

So our gratitude is enormous to her.

Penelope Green is a journalist with the Newcastle Herald.

She also ran away from her job in PR in her late 20s and headed to Italy for an adventure and ended up staying.

Her books on that experience include When in Rome and See Naples and Die.

Aha, I've got this book and I haven't read it yet, so I'm very interested to hear.

Now, this is Jacqueline Maley, who's a journalist and columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and the book is about a journalist as well.

The truth about her... How odd am I?

Biographical, is it?

Okay.

And so you caught up with Jacqueline and asked her what else she reads.

Let's hear it.

Jacqueline Maley's The Truth About Her is published by Fourth Estate.

To hear more of that conversation between Jacqueline and Kate, find the podcast edition of the show online or on the ABC Listen app, or you can follow up through the podcast app you use.

Yeah, no nerves about that.

Line-up of guests includes Emily McGuire, her new book Love Objects, just sensational.

Rick Morton, he could talk about anything and I'd be there to listen to it.

His latest book is My Year of Living Vulnerably.

Let me just tell you that.

Three guests, two of us, a whole lot of you and book talk.

So do your shelf a favour and see us next week.