Julia Gillard
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335 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Julia Gillard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Heart the Lover is the last one by Lily King.
She is an established author.
And this is a novel that time jumps.
You start with literary college types doing quips about literature, but you end up through a series of time jumps in a very emotional scene of a person dying in hospital and how everybody has gathered.
And it is one of the best renderings of that kind of circumstance.
It does.
And the prize money and the visibility for the long list, for the short list really matters to sales.
So if you're walking into that bookshop or you're looking online about what to read next, between the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Stella Prize, plenty of great choices.
So much to pick from.
Yeah.
Now, Sophie, what is next for The Secret Life of Books?
Of the things that I've absolutely loved as a listener to your podcast,
I love it when you do the deep dives.
You got everybody to read along with you.
George Elliott, Middlemarch, loved that.
You did a book-by-book discussion of Virginia Woolf's.
I absolutely love that with a podcast of one's own.
You would expect me to say that.
You really hit a sweet spot, which is somewhere between
book club and literary course.
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