Good Reading Podcast

Aaron Tait on his journey from war to peace in 'Far Horizons'

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a seventeen-year-old officer Aaron Tait was deployed to a war in the Middle East. Far Horizons is the story of what happened next. From war zones t...

Vicki Bennett on her story of love, war, and intergenerational healing, 'The Letters'

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When rebellious Ruby is bequeathed her late grandfather’s personal letters, she is pulled from peacetime 1973 Australia, to 1917 World War 1 France....

Chris Blake on his gripping crime thriller set on the New Zealand's wild west coast, Softly Calls the Devil'

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Things are going well for Matt Buchanan. After some hard times, life is peaceful as sole-charge constable for the small, isolated settlement of Haast ...

Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down, in 'Looking From the North'

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in the 1960s, he discovered the books of the perio...

Amra Pajalic on her thrilling Balkan war murder mystery, 'Time Kneels Between Mountains'

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Overnight, Seka Torlak’s life as a regular teenager is upended as Srebrenica, her once peaceful town, falls under siege and she faces starvation, sh...

Joanna Nell on her heart-warming story celebrating life and love in, 'The Funeral Crashers'

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Retired academic Martin Pottinger's romantic aspirations for the delectable head of his former university's archaeology department, Professo...

Suzanne Leal on her Historical Novel Society Australasia 2025 award-winning novel for young adults, 'The Year We Escaped'

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Europe, 1940. With war on their doorstep, German classmates Klara and Rachel, and French brothers Lucien and Paul, are forced to leave their homes. Th...

Tasma Walton and Robbie Arnott on their Historical Novel Society Australasia 2025 award-winning novels

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

'I am Nannertgarrook' is based on the true story of Tasma Walton’s ancestor, a powerful, heart-wrenching novel about maternal love that en...

Katie Edmiston from Queensland State Library on 'How do you Library?'

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"How do you library?" is a statewide campaign that aims to expand visitation and encourage deeper engagement and participation at libraries ...

Garry Disher on the fifth in the Hirsch crime thriller series, 'Mischance Creek'

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Constable Paul Hirschhausen is checking firearms. The regular police audit: all weapons secured, ammo stored separately, no unauthorised person with k...

Inga Simpson and Tannya Harricks their new picture book for children, 'The Peach King'

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Little Peach Tree was just a sapling, all they could see was row upon row of other peach trees. And, on top of the hill, watching over the orchar...

Blake Johnston on surfing success, change and resilience in 'Swellbeing: Everyone Deserves to Feel Awesome'

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For Blake 'Blakey' Johnston growing up around the beaches of Cronulla, life was good and surfing was everything. At sixteen, he turned pro a...

Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac on their new picture book for children, 'The Legend of Jessie Hickman'

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jessie Hickman was a woman who lived outside the norms of her time. A brave and formidable woman, Jessie lived a life full of adventure, action and da...

Jessica Mansour-Nahra on her first novel, an eerie gothic psychological thriller, 'The Farm'

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When 37-year-old Leila suffers a health tragedy, she doesn't recover as quickly as she expected. Her partner, James, suggests a year away from th...

Belinda Castles on discovering literary Sydney on foot in 'Walking Sydney'

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Walking Sydney invites you to walk with a city’s writers as they share their places of home and imagination. From the streets of the suburbs to the ...

Toni Jordan on greyhounds, gambling and growing up in her new novel, 'Tenderfoot'

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brisbane, 1975: Andie Tanner's world is small but whole. Her mum is complicated, but she adores her dad and the kennel of racing greyhounds that ...

Tanya Scott on her high-octane debut crime thriller, 'Stillwater'

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After years away from his home town of Melbourne, Luke Harris is back on track. All he wants is a normal job, his own house and a dog. But Luke is a m...

Adam Courtenay on the dynamic, complex and driven man in his memoir 'My Father Bryce'

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bryce Courtenay was one of Australia's highest-selling and most-loved authors. From his first book, The Power of One, he captivated readers. Many...

Mike Amor on the highs and lows of a career as a foreign correspondent in 'News Cowboys'

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

News cowboys – it was the nickname the reporters and camerapeople at Seven Network’s Los Angeles bureau jokingly gave themselves as they headed of...

Olivia Purvis on her first book for young children, 'Where's Moon?'

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Where’s Moon?’ follows a day in the life of June, a toddler who is searching for the moon! The story was written by Speech Pathologist, Olivia Pur...

Belinda Lyons Lee on her gothic horror story, 'The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson'

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s friendship with the charming Eugene Chantrelle and the murder myste...

Kaarina Parker on a remarkable woman of the Ancient Roman Empire, 'Fulvia'

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dying days of the Roman republic, a remarkable woman steps out of the shadows and beyond the boundaries imposed on her sex, driven by an unstop...

Sarah Di Lorenzo on the steps to transform your liver health in 'The Liver Repair Plan'

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The liver's ability to heal and regenerate can greatly improve your wellbeing. Clinical nutritionist and bestselling author Sarah Di Lorenzo’s ...

Simon Mustoe on unlocking the power of nature in 'How to Survive the Next 100 Years'

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As animals our brains float above the planet’s surface. We were made to be mobile and carry our intelligence with us. A huge leap for mankind is hap...

Erna Walraven on her memoir about zoo-keeping and feminism, 'Hear Me Roar'

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Erna Walraven on her memoir about zoo-keeping and feminism, 'Hear Me Roar'In the early 1980s, when Erna Walraven decided to follow her dream...

Jessica Townsend on the fourth book in her Nevermoor series, 'Silverborn The Mystery of Morrigan Crow'

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the magical city of Nevermoor, long-buried secrets are coming to light, and Morrigan Crow's life is about to turn upside down. When Morrigan i...

Raina MacIntyre on science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress in 'Vaccine Nation'

27 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vaccination is arguably the greatest public health achievement in history, yet the disappearance of many diseases has also seen an increased focus on ...

Dianne Wolfer and Erica Wagner on the retelling of an Australian classic in 'The Colt From Old Regret'

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You may have heard the story of the man from Snowy River and his fearless ride through the mountains. This is Colt’s story, of nickering mares and a...

Stephen Gapps on Australia's unknown colonial history 'Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844'

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance ended in 1824 with a series of massacres conducted by settlers in the Bathurst region. From the 1830s, colonists...

Kate Grenville on her Australian family pilgrimage in 'Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

‘What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?’Ka...

'How to Be Normal' Q&A with author Ange Crawford and Cerdon College Merrylands

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ange Crawford is the winner of the the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize. With themes including coercive control, coming of age, and finding you...

Judy Friedlander on her new book for kids, 'The Bee Squad: Boosting Biodiversity in Your Neighbourhood'

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From the coast of Western Australia to Sydney’s suburbs, young people are discovering nature in their neighbourhoods and setting up nesting boxes fo...

Porscia Lam on a life changing journey in 'The Unlocking: An Autism Story'

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Unlocking: An Autism Story unfolds in pandemic-stricken Melbourne, charting one family’s desperate battle against the escalating behavior of the...

Ronni Salt on her debut crime thriller about guns, drugs and small town life in 'Gunnawah'

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When nineteen-year-old farm girl Adelaide Hoffman applies for a cadetship at the Gunnawah Gazette, she sees it as her ticket out of a life too small f...

Judy King on a childhood betrayed and reclaimed in 'Agnes'

22 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia, the country of her birth, at the behest of her aging, narcissistic mother. Having undergone a...

Garth Nix on his new novel for kids, 'We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord'

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All Kim wants to do is play Dungeons & Dragons with his friends and ride his bike around the local lake. But he has always lived in the shadow of ...

Isobelle Carmody on a reluctant hero on an epic quest into an alternative dream world in 'Comes the Night'

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will Helloran is sixteen years old and lives with his father in the Canberra dome complex that protects its inhabitants from the corrosive atmosphere ...

Chris Baker on life, love, memory and taking the plunge in 'Swimming Sydney'

02 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Swimming Sydney is a tale of 52 swims in and around Sydney that take place over a calendar year. From Palm Beach to Cronulla, Mount Druitt to Bondi, C...

Chris Hammer on small town crime and blood relatives in 'The Valley'

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley, but this is no ordinary case. Ivan and Nell are soon contending with cowboy lawy...

Melissa Lucashenko on her 2024 Historical Novel Society award-winning novel, 'Edenglassie'

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams o...

Beverley McWilliams on her 2024 Historical Novel Society prize-winning novel for children, 'Spies in the Sky'

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Royal Blue is a royal racing pigeon from a long line of champions. Every morning he wakes in his comfortable loft at Sandringham House, eats the very ...

Kathy Mexted on the incredible stories of Australian women who reach for the sky in 'Take Flight'

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From balancing on a wingtip to circling with eagles, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have leapt, tumbled and dived, and reached ...

Emily Rodda on her epic three part fantasy adventure, 'Landovel'

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Derry knows no other life than that of a captive on Cram's Rock, shunned by the other young prisoners for being Cram's poison taster. Until ...

Tim Winton on a story of catastrophe, survival and the power of humanity in 'Juice'

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they ...

Justin Fox on the pathway to his first novel, 'Quietly Waiting'

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tanya is a strong, independent young woman living in England. Surrounded by limitless possibilities, her biggest fear is not being able to find her tr...

Dr Norman Swan on his latest book, 'So You Want to Know What's Good For Your Kids?'

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We all want our kids to grow into happy, healthy adults and the first ten years count more than any other time in our lives. So what should we be doin...

Science fiction author Sean Williams, illustrator Connor Chamberlain and John Goodwin on the 40th Anniversary Volume of 'Writers of the Future'

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

L. Ron Hubbard created the Writers of the Future Writing Contest in 1983 to provide "a means for new and budding writers to have a chance for the...

Elfie Shiosaki on the galaxy of Noongar stories in her new poetry collection, 'Refugia'

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

'Refugia' is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar Elfie Shiosaki. Inspired by the beel...

Shelley Davidow on love in Berlin and the creative urge in 'The Girl With the Violin'

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's 1989 and for a young Jewish-Australian violinist, a scholarship to Berlin is the chance of a lifetime. Germany is on the verge of change as ...

Michael Robotham on twenty years of crime fiction and his new thriller, 'Storm Child'

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away, ever since she was held prisoner as a child - a child whose rescue captured hea...

Katherine Allum on her debut novel set in the American Southwest, 'The Skeleton House'

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meg’s life is woven into the fabric of St. Stephens. It’s a tapestry made of two precious children, a hidden truth, and a husband whose ideas of a...

Yuot Alaak on an incredible journey in his memoir, 'Father of the Lost Boys'

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

During the Second Sudanese Civil War, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced from their villages or orphaned in attacks from northern governm...

Dr Clare Bailey on enjoying the things you love to eat in 'The Fast 800 Keto Treats Recipe Book'

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this enticing new cookbook, Dr Clare Bailey shows you how to create fabulous bakes, sweet treats and desserts with recipes that are low in sugar, h...

Gerard McCann on the unspoken truth of child sexual abuse in his memoir 'Anatomy of a Secret'

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a boy, Gerard McCann was sexually abused by a Catholic priest at his local church. As a grown man, he confronts the trauma of what he suffered and ...

Julia Lawrinson on a life less ordinary in her memoir, 'How to Avoid a Happy Life'

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Some people are born into bad situations, some people have bad situations thrust upon them, and some people find bad situations through their dodgy ch...

Ben Miller on his illustrated fairytale mash-up, 'Diary of a Big Bad Wolf'

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thrown out of the pack for being a weakling, Laurence the Wolf is down on his luck. He knows he’s strong, and brave, and cool, but nobody else seems...

Nadia Wheatley on Charmian Clift's final, unfinished novel, 'The End of the Morning'

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

During the years of the Great Depression, Cressida Morley and her eccentric family live in a weatherboard cottage on the edge of a wild beach. Outside...

Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion on a mental health story of heart and humour, 'The Glass House'

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was noth...

Kathy Lette on getting the better of the patriarchy in 'The Revenge Club'

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at the top of their game; so imagine their surprise when they start to be personally overlooked and profes...

Dr Vanessa Pirotta dives into the mysterious world of whales in 'Humpback Highway'

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Acclaimed wildlife scientist Vanessa Pirotta has been mugged by whales, touched by a baby whale and covered in whale snot. In Humpback Highway, Pirott...

Sydel Sierra on the power of cryptocurrencies and how to invest the right way in, 'All Time High'

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All Time High is a comprehensive guide on how to enter the cryptocurrency market as a complete beginner and to prosper. Cryptocurrencies have the powe...

Candice Fox on disrupting the hero trope in her latest thriller, 'Devil's Kitchen'

23 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For years the firefighters of New York’s Engine 99 have rushed fearlessly into hot zones, saving countless lives and stopping devastating blazes in ...

Rachael Johns on love, romance and the power of books in 'The Other Bridget'

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Named after a famous fictional character, librarian Bridget Jones was raised on a remote cattle station, with only her mother’s romance novels for c...

Julie Janson on the dangerous lives of Aboriginal women in colonial New South Wales in 'Compassion'

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Compassion continues Julie Janson’s emotional and intense literary exploration of the complex and dangerous lives of Aboriginal women during the 180...

Nam Le on his new book of poetry, '36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem'

09 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is a book-length poem that is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity and the violence of identity, embedde...

David Goodwin on working at the coal-face of retail in 'Servo: 'Tales from the Graveyard Shift'

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us have done our time in the retail trenches, but service stations are undoubtedly the frontline, as Melburnian David Goodwin found out when h...

Mariah Sweetman on the thrilling story of her great-great grandfather in 'Robert Runs'

24 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert ‘Goupong’ Anderson, was once the fastest man in Australia and world-record holder. Goupong, his little sister Dot, and his best friend Jona...

Alecia Simmonds on love and marriage in 'Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law'

17 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Until well into the twentieth century, heartbroken men and women in Australia had a legal redress for their suffering: jilted lovers could claim compe...

Dassi Erlich on her memoir that goes inside the secret ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, 'In Bad Faith'

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a young girl growing up in a strict ultra-Orthodox family, Dassi's life was preordained - marry young, live a devout life and raise children w...

James Foley on his brilliant full colour graphic novels for kids, 'Brobot', 'Gastronauts' and 'Stellarphant'

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to James Foley about where his ideas come from, the great characters he has created – Sally Tinker (the world’...

Linda Margolin Royal on a story inspired by the Japanese Schindler, 'The Star on the Grave'

27 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his government and secretly issues visas to fleeing Jewish refu...

Skye McKenna on the continuing magical journey for fledgeling witch Cassie Morgan in 'Woodwitch'

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cassie has settled into life in Hedgely when, out of the blue, her troubled cousin, Sebastian, comes to stay for Hallowe'en. Sneering and scornfu...

Isobel Bevis on connecting children to Noongar culture in 'Nedingar' - Ancestors

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nedingar is the story of a young child who wants to meet their Ancestors (Nedingar), to know them, learn from them and follow their ways. The child&ap...

Helen Milroy on her two new books for young children, 'Bush Bugs' and 'Crow Baby'

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bush Bugs is a colourful array of Australian insects that will captivate young children. From spiky stick insects to hairy spiders, from blood-sucking...

Annette Higgs on her first novel set in 19th century Tasmania, 'On A Bright Hillside in Paradise'

07 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Parad...

Jack Heath on an unforgettable romantic weekend away in 'Kill Your Husbands'

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Three couples, friends since high school, rent a luxurious house in the mountains for an unplugged weekend of drinking and bushwalking. No internet, n...

Tracy Ryan on two remarkable Renaissance women of the Navarre in 'The Queen's Apprenticeship'

26 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Two women from different worlds in Renaissance France cross paths in a way that changes both their lives. One is Marguerite de Navarre, a King’s sis...

Charlotte Wood on contemplating life's big questions in 'Stone Yard Devotional'

18 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood, holing up in a small religious community hidden away on the stark...

Rachelle Unreich on 'A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust'

04 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Over seventy years had passed since Mira Unreich was freed from a concentration camp in Germany. On that spring day in 1945, she found herself alive, ...

Katharine J Adams on the dark and magical world of her new YA novel, 'Tonight I Burn'

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Penny Albright is a daughter of the thorn coven, forced to patrol the veil between the realms of Life and Death. Each night, one thorn witch—and onl...

Quentin Beresford goes inside Australia's biggest corporate scandals in 'Rogue Corporations'

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Crown Resorts, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten’s Allied Medical Group, 7-Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on…Aus...

Andy McNab on 'The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban'

29 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted. A group of NGO workers have been kidnapped by local insurgents and ar...

Robyn Davidson on time, memory and a life driven by curiosity in 'Unfinished Woman'

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. A life of almos...

Gail Jones on her 2023 Historical Novel Society Australasia prize-winning book, 'Salonika Burning'

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Macedonia, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. Amid the destruction are those who have come to th...

Amelia Mellor on her 2023 Historical Novel Society Australasia prize-winning book in the YA category, 'The Bookseller's Apprentice'

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Twelve-year-old Billy Pyke has a talent for sorting things out, whether it’s his chaotic family home or the busy book stall at Paddy’s Market. In ...

Paul Bangay on his journey from child gardener to design icon in 'A Life in Garden Design'

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This illustrated memoir explores the evolution of one of Australia’s finest design minds. A visual delight, it ranges from photos of childhood garde...

Val McDermid on the latest in the DCI Karen Pirie series of crime thrillers, 'Past Lying'

14 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author...

Levi Pinfold on illustrating a magical world for the 'The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac'

08 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

'The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac' is official companion to the Harry Potter stories – the ultimate compendium of wizarding lists, chart...

Molly Schmidt on small-town racism and the power of human connection in 'Salt River Road'

07 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Salt River Road is a compelling coming-of-age novel about grief and healing set in a small town in the 1970s. In the aftermath of their mother’s dea...

Sasha Kutabah Sarago on the Indigenous ideal of beauty and her journey to understand it in 'Gigorou'

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gigorou (jig-goo-roo) means ‘beauty’ or ‘beautiful’ in Jirrbal, the language of Sasha Kutabah Sarago’s grandmother. Growing up, Sasha didn’...

James O'Hanlon on discovering the incredible world of spiders in 'Silk and Venom'

30 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There are more than 50 000 species of spiders. They surround us in our daily lives and, contrary to popular belief, the vast majority are completely h...

Anna Funder on Eileen O'Shaughnessy, the woman who made George Orwell in 'Wifedom'

23 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Anna Funder returned to the work of her literary hero George Orwell looking for escape and inspiration, re-reading his books and biographies, Ann...

Susan Duncan on love, community and the pleasures of life in 'Sleepless in Stringybark Bay'

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When five couples pool their resources to live in a house located where a turquoise lagoon meets the sea, the quirky little offshore community of Cook...

Madonna King on 'Saving Our Kids The Inside Story of Taskforce Argos'

16 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The crime of sextortion has reached epidemic proportions, fuelled by both sex offenders and organised scammers targeting our most vulnerable online. C...

Deborah Fitzgerald on 'Her Sunburnt Country The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar'

16 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been written about the poet’s extrao...

Kirsty Manning on a story of courage and resilience in 'The Hidden Book'

09 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, 1944, Spanish fighter and photographer Mateo Baca is ordered to process images of the camp...

Wendy Holden on the inside story of the young Diana Spencer in 'The Princess'

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Britain, 1961: the beautiful blonde baby Diana is born to Viscount Althorp, heir to the Spencer earldom. But Diana grows up amid the fallout of her pa...

Otto English goes in search of the truth behind the myths of our 'Fake Heroes'

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the author of 'Fake History', comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previousl...

Roger Simpson on the truth behind the Jane Halifax character in Halifax Resurrection.

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A near-fatal car accident has left Jane in a coma. When she wakes, she has no idea who she is. Initially comforted by unlikely spectres from past case...

Kate Mildenhall on connecting women's stories across time in 'The Hummingbird Effect'

20 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a bagging girl at the Angliss meatworks, a place b...