Good Reading Podcast
Episodes
Peter Papathanasiou on a West Australian road trip like no other in 'The Pit'
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bob is sixty-five years old, confined to a Perth nursing home. But thirty years ago, he killed a man in the remote northern Kimberley mining region. H...
Dennis Glover on the legend and the legacy of R F Scott's Antarctic expedition in 'Thaw'
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drawn from the pages of history and cutting-edge science, Thaw is a gripping read that will forever change how you see the frozen continent – and th...
Matt Majendie on life and death with the big-wave surfers in 'Nazare'
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a small fishing village on the coast of Portugal, a select band of surfers take unimaginable risks, pushing the boundaries of their death-defying s...
Sam Twyford-Moore on the ins and outs of Australian actors in Hollywood in 'Cast Mates'
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home' is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages.The larger-than-li...
Frank Bongiorno on Mungo MacCallum's classic political inventory 'The Good, The Bad and the Unlikely
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a st...
Mark Brandi on the cargo of hopes, dreams and disappointment aboard 'Southern Aurora'
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jimmy is a kid growing up fast on the poorest street in small town rural Australia. He tries to do everything right and look out for his alcoholic mum...
Professor Phil Hansbro on the science and nutrition behind a healthy gut in 'The Good Gut Anti-Inflammatory Diet'
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For over four decades, world-leading independent medical research organisation the Centenary Institute has been producing breakthroughs in our biggest...
Kelly Rimmer on the courageous Special Operations Executives of World War II in 'The Paris Agent'
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty-five years after the end of the World War II, ageing British Special Operations Executive Noah Ainsworth is reflecting on the secret agent who ...
Peter Burke on the atheist among the Swan River missionaries in 'The Silk Merchant's Son'
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1846, linguistics professor Fabrice Cleriquot is despatched from Lyon to the Swan River Colony, sent away with a box full of silkworms to stop him ...
Katherine Kovacic on the affection and connection we have with our canine friends in 'Australia's Dogs'
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Australians love dogs – big dogs, little dogs, fluffy couch potatoes and hardy working dogs. We have one of the highest rates of pet ownership in th...
Om Dhungel on losing everything and finding Australia in 'Bhutan to Blacktown'
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-la hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal e...
Anthony Cooper on the war correspondents who volunteered for a suicide mission in 'Despatch From Berlin, 1943'
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In December 1943, five courageous war correspondents join a British air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King from the Sydney Morning Herald ...
Kerri Sackville on the joys and benefits of a little alone time in 'The Secret Life of You'
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Kerri Sackville decided to stop filling every idle moment with distraction and learn to be comfortable alone, her quality of life soared. From bo...
Kim Anderson on the controversial Australian portrait that changed the nation in 'The Prize'
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'The Prize' revisits the 1943 Archibald Prize scandal, when portrait painter William Dobell was temporarily stripped of the prize for his ex...
Catherine Therese on her first novel 'Things She Would Have Said Herself'
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Leslie Bird, the irascible matriarch of a big bonkers Bird family, coming-of-age and to the boil, as the secrets and slights that have shaped her...
Justin Cronin on building strange new worlds where nothing is as it seems in 'The Ferryman'
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The islands of Prospera lies in a vast ocean in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity, or whatever remains of it. Citizens enjoy privileged liv...
Anne Tiernan on family trauma and running from the past in her first novel, 'The Last Days of Joy'
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the Tobin family... Joy is an immigrant who left Ireland with her three children under difficult circumstances. She is a troubled mother who has ...
Dianne Yarwood on life, death, friendship and great food in 'The Wakes'
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a story about Clare, Louisa and Chris. And sometimes Paul, and less often, Beth. It is about what to do when your husband tells you that he do...
Toni Jordan on her hilarious new comedy about losing control, 'Prettier If She Smiled More'
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kylie Schnabel has a perfectly ordered life - but that's about to be disrupted by one disastrous week. As the eldest child in a single-parent fa...
Ros Ben Moshe on the healing power of laughter in 'The Laughter Effect'
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Laughter Effect is a timely reminder that we could all do with a little more lightness in our lives. Ros Ben-Moshe shares the science of laughter ...
Stephanie Bishop on her dark and compulsive novel about creativity and desire, 'The Anniversary'
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist JB Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. For days they sail in the sun. They lie about ...
Pip Williams on the transcendent power of books in 'The Bookbinder of Jericho'
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and...
Margaret Simons on one of Australia's most influential women in 'Tanya Plibersek On Her Own Terms'
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya Plibersek was elected to federal parliament aged just twenty-eight, and has lived almost half her life in the public eye. She is the longest-ser...
Christine Kenneally on institutional abuse, murder and the search for justice in 'Ghosts of the Orphanage'
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Centering on St. Joseph's, a Catholic orphanage in Vermont, Christine Kenneally shares the stories of survivors who have fought to expose the tru...
Kate Auty on the true story of the Forrest River massacre in 'O'Leary of the Underworld'
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Oombulgurri people at Forrest River in the Kimberley. After the ...
Ali Lowe on keeping up with murder in 'The Running Club'
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone pays a premium to live in Esperance. The wealthy community of Esperance is picture-perfect. Big houses, stunning views, beautiful people. A b...
Paul Ashford Harris on the cycles of history in 'Love, Oil and the Fortunes of War'
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The British Navy, the largest in the world, is for the first time in a century under serious threat. World War 1 is imminent. Three very different cha...
Deepti Kapoor on a world fuelled by greed, pleasure and violence in India's 'Age of Vice'
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the d...
Paul Biegler answers a big question in 'Why Does It Still Hurt?'
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chronic pain is a major cause of human suffering. Yet pain that persists for three months or more is often unrelated to any physical injury. So why do...
Benison O'Reilly and Seana Smith on the new and updated edition of the Australian Autism Handbook
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian Autism Handbook is the go-to guide for parents whose children have been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. It is a practical a...
Sam and Paul Harvey on the Smash Hits of Nick Kyrgios
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Smash Hits Nick vs The World is the life and times of tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios. With his unconventional playing style, constant battles with au...
James Weir on the heroes and villains of reality TV in 'The Hemsworth Effect'
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aimee Maguire is about to lose everything because she can’t afford to pay the rent in her Byron Bay alternative book shop. Her engagement is also on...
Jack Heath on the latest book in the deliciously dark and twisted Timothy Blake series 'Headcase'
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Chinese astronaut is found dead in a NASA training environment in Houston, Texas. No one can explain how he got there. Amid fears of a diplomatic ca...
Frank Bongiorno on the first full political history of Australia 'Dreamers and Schemers'
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia’s political life, ...
Anita Heiss on 'Growing Up Wiradjuri: Stories from the Wiradjuri Nation'
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up Wiradjuri is a collection of personal stories by Wiradjuri Elders. The writers are Uncles and Aunties who came of age in New South Wales in...
Don Watson on a window into Australia's past and present in 'The Passion of Private White'
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
'The Passion of Private White' describes the meeting of two worlds: that of the intensely driven anthropologist Neville White, and the world...
Tom Keneally on his 2022 Historical Novel Society's prize-winning story 'Corporal Hitler's Pistol'
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Keneally is the winner of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Society's prize for his story 'Corporal Hitler's Pistol'How did Corp...
Katrina Nannestad on her prize-winning story for children 'Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief'
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Katrina Nannestad is the winner of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Society's prize in the Children and Young Adult category for Rabbit, Soldier, ...
Jennifer Whelan and Deirdre Brandner on their new 'Bear' series of books for young children and parents
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 'Bear Learns How to be a Rainbow' winter is coming and Bear is feeling sad, lonely and scared. But Bear discovers he can be the sun and a...
Allen C Jones on a tale of apocalypse and survival in 'Her Death Was Also Water'
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of an unfolding disaster, seven people are trying to survive on a small boat in a world completely transformed by an apocalyptic flood. H...
Paddy Manning on the high-stakes life of Lachlan Murdoch in 'The Successor'
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As heir apparent to his father’s global media empire, Lachlan Murdoch is one of the world’s most powerful people. Yet despite a life in the spotli...
Inga Simpson on her love letter to cricket and music 'Willowman'
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Allan Reader is one of the last traditional bat-makers and is struggling to keep the family business alive in a small workshop in Melbourne. When gift...
Janet Evanovich on the riotous new Stephanie Plum mystery thriller 'Going Rogue'
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Stephanie Plum turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds she finds office manager Connie hasn't shown up for work. Stephanie's wors...
Cressida Cowell on the maps of the imagination in 'Which Way To Anywhere'
22 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
K2 O'Hero is a seemingly ordinary boy from a truly extraordinary family - he and his twin sister Izzabird have been sworn to keep their family&ap...
Amelia Mellor on the magic of books and exploring history in 'The Bookseller's Apprentice'
21 Oct 2022
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 ...
Mia Swainson on simple ways to live a climate positive lifestyle in ' Happy Planet Living'
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mia Swainson is an environmental engineer and member of the ACT Climate Council. Happy Planet Living outlines achievable steps for change and the simp...
Dominique Roques on sourcing the ingredients for the great fragrances of the world 'In Search of Perfumes'
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Search of Perfumes is a journey across the world in search of the beautiful, mysterious and exotic materials that go into creating perfume. Fruits,...
Andy McNab on the true story of the secret mission to catch a Taliban warlord in 'The Hunt'
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's the early 2000s and 9/11 is fresh in the world's memory. The Taliban have taken over Afghanistan, and a new threat is emerging: suicide...
Ross Garnaut on the opportunity to secure Australia's prosperity in a zero-carbon future in 'The Superpower Transformation'
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In The Superpower Transformation Emeritus Professor Ross Garnaut charts the course for Australia to become a leader in a world of zero-carbon emission...
Danielle Clode on the history and science behind a slow-moving Australian icon in 'Koala: A Life in Trees'
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite their iconic status in Australia koalas remain a mystery. As a species they are threatened in some states but dying from overpopulation in oth...
Roger Simpson on getting inside the mind of forensic psychologist Jane Halifax in 'Halifax: Transgression'
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A series of brazen, violent and ritualistic murders have police baffled and the killer leaves few clues as to their motive or identity. Inspector Eric...
Ruth Ware on isolation and claustrophobia in her latest psychological thriller 'The It Girl'
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
April Clarke-Cliveden is vivacious, bright, and occasionally vicious—the ultimate 'It' girl, She quickly pulled Hannah Jones into her dazz...
Michelle Lee on the challenges and rewards of rowing the world's great oceans in 'Alone'
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After twelve years in corporate banking, Michelle Lee gave up her career for a life beyond the office. Trekking the 100km Kokoda trail in 2012 sparked...
Kate Temple on her first solo book for kids 'The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat'
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A mystery illness is making people bake ancient cakes, speak dead languages and then fall asleep and never wake up. When Trilby Moffat's mother A...
Geoff Nadin on the Stewart Dawson family fortune won and lost in 'Treasure House'
18 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Treasure House is the story of the Stewart Dawson dynasty: watchmakers and jewellers, Australian pioneers of Jazz Age popular culture and entertainmen...
Elaine Pearson on a life in pursuit of human rights in 'Chasing Wrongs and Rights'
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elaine Pearson is the Asia Director at Human Rights Watch and a board member of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women. Elaine has spent a lifet...
Joelle Gergis on the challenge we all face in 'Humanity's Moment: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope'
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When climate scientist Joelle Gergis set to work on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change's (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Repor...
Zoulfa Katouh on love in the time of war in 'As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow'
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. Now, with her parents and brother both killed in a vicious civil w...
Andy McNab on his latest book for kids 'My Mum Is A Spy'
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Lucia and her dad come to stay for a week, Idris hadn't prepared himself. Lucia loves spying and is convinced that Idris' mum is a spy....
Isabel Vincent on the two sisters who rescued opera's Jewish stars from the Third Reich in 'Overture of Hope'
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
London 1937. Two sisters, Ida Cook, a budding romance novelist and Louise, an ordinary typist for the civil service share a passion for opera. They ...
Michael Veitch on the unsung heroes of the WWII Coastwatchers in 'Australia's Secret Army'
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hidden deep in the jungles and mountains of the Southwest Pacific during World War II were Australia's secret army – a group of men and women w...
Dr Ben Bravery on putting the heart back into healthcare in 'The Patient Doctor'
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the age of twenty-eight Ben Bravery found himself facing the terrifying spectre of stage three colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood th...
Nilesh Makwana on 'Terminal 4 - An Entrepreneur's Journey From Bicycle to Business Class'
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nilesh Makwana is the CEO of the global award-winning business illuminance Solutions. This memoir is a vivid, honest and often hilarious look back on ...
Kathy Reichs on super sleuth forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan's 21st thriller 'Cold, Cold Bones'
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winter has come to North Carolina and Temperance Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. One...
Daryl Van Tongeren on how to understand and use the quiet power of an ancient virtue in 'Humble'
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daryl Van Tongeren has been researching social psychology and the virtue of humility for over ten years. As the first book on humility in the field of...
Tori Haschka on a heart-rending story of how food connects and heals in 'A Recipe For Family'
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Things are getting messy for Stella Prentice: her husband is away; she's juggling a full-time job with family that includes a demanding four-year...
Sam Vincent on an honest and hilarious story of succession in 'My Father And Other Animals'
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Vincent was a twenty-something writer working in Canberra when he gets a call from his mother – his father has got his hand caught in a wood chi...
J P Pomare on the private investigator haunted by his home town in 'The Wrong Woman'
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vince Reid left the small town of Manson a decade ago, promising never to return. But now an insurance company wants him to investigate a claim on a s...
Leigh Straw on the true crime story that gripped Australia in the 1920s in 'The Ballroom Murder'
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1925, Audrey Jacob shot dead her former fiance Cyril Gidley in full view of hundreds of guests at a charity ball in Perth's Government ...
Sophie Green on a story of friendship and fresh beginnings in 'The Bellbird River Country Choir'
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Teacher and single Mum Alex is escaping the city in search of new start with her young daughter; Bellbird River matriarch Victoria finds herself at a ...
Brian Freeman on Jason Bourne's biggest threat yet in Robert Ludlum's 'The Bourne Sacrifice'
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Bourne has faced many killers in his time but none more dangerous than the assassin that calls himself Lennon. Bourne believes this elusive kill...
Alistair Paton on the rollicking history of Australia's amateur scientists in 'Of Marsupials and Men'
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To the first European colonists, Australian wildlife was bewildering. Marsupials, monotremes and the vast array of birds and snakes were strange and h...
Colin Burgess on the astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp in 'Destination Buchenwald'
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the D-Day landings of 1944 a group of downed airmen were being held in the infamous Fresnes...
Christine Sykes on the joys of movement and friendship in 'The Tap Cats of the Sunshine Coast'
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Carol, Sofia and Bonnie whose lives have been intertwined since primary school. Their hopes, dreams and heartaches have been shared for decades. ...
Lisa Barr on love, sex, history and the epic struggle to reclaim stolen art in 'Woman On Fire'
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Young journalist Jules Roth is handed an intriguing assignment: to find a painting stolen by the Nazis 75 years ago. Little does she know that ruthles...
James O'Loghlin on crime, punishment and redemption in 'Criminals'
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dean is a small-time thief funding a drug habit. Sarah is a junior police officer on extended stress leave. Mary, a former school teacher, is an alcoh...
Michael Robotham on the third in Cyrus Haven crime fiction series, 'Lying Beside You'
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven's family was murdered by his paranoid schizophrenic brother Elias. Now Elias is being released from a secure psychi...
Carmel Bird on reading, writing and remembering in her memoir Telltale
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Telltale, Carmel Bird seizes on the enforced isolation of the pandemic to re-read a rich library of books from her past and to reconnect with peopl...
Geraldine Brooks on the grim legacy of American slavery, racism and injustice in 'Horse'
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discarded nineteenth century painting depicting a magnificent horse and its proud black groom is the starting point for Geraldine Brooks' deep ...
Sandi Logan on the most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history in 'Betrayed'
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1977 Vera 'Toddie' Hays and Florice 'Beezie' Bessire thought they were about to embark on the trip of a lifetime when Vera&apos...
Phil Barker on the rise and fall of Australian magazines in 'Axed! Who Killed Australian Magazines?'
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990s Phil Barker left the male-dominated world of the Daily Telegraph to work on magazines such as NW and Woman's Day. It was the golden ...
Wendy Davis on speaking up in 'Don't Make a Fuss: It's Only the Claremont Serial Killer'
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A violent workplace attack nearly 30 years ago left Wendy Davis with trauma that has permeated her entire life. The police investigation at the time w...
Dr John Tickell on 'Your Best Immunity: Build Resistance the ACE Way'
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr John Tickell is a medical doctor, health researcher and author who has spent decades studying the health and longevity of people around the world. ...
Matthew Spencer on his brilliant debut crime thriller 'Black River'
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Bowman, a second-string journalist at a Sydney newspaper, may be the only person with enough inside knowledge to uncover the links between a murd...
Margaret Cunneen SC on a remarkable career in 'The Boxing Butterfly'
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Cunneen worked for 30 years as a Crown Prosecutor on cases involving murder, pedophiles and rapists and became a specialist in child sexual a...
Caroline Petit on an epic love story across three continents in 'The Natural History of Love'
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Carolina Fonçeca is a lonely sixteen-year-old girl confined to a remote Brazilian sugar plantation in the 1850s. Her life changes when the French exp...
Caroline Beecham on an exceptional World War II heroine in 'Esther's Children'
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Austria, 1936. Esther Simpson works for a British organisation that rescues academics from the cruel Fascist and anti-Semitic regimes taking hold in E...
Sophie Cachia on a life-changing moment in 'And Then There Was Her'
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By the age of twenty-five, Sophie Cachia was a happily married mother and digital marketing expert with a very successful business powered by by docum...
Victoria Purman on the unsung heroes of World War I in 'The Nurses' War'
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
May 1915. As war rages in Europe, Australian nurse, Sister Cora Barker, leaves her home in Adelaide for England, determined to make her own contributi...
Chloe Hooper on the dark and light of storytelling in 'Bedtime Story'
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with an aggressive and deadly cancer she had to find a way to tell their two sons. Could the news be bro...
Three generations of Silbery women reflect on personal memories and life's lessons in 'Out of the Box'
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You might know them as Isabelle, Kerry and Emmie Silbery from Foxtel’s and Channel 10’s series Gogglebox, a program where they share their thought...
Diane Connell on a force to be reckoned with in 'The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird'
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ricky Bird loves making up wild stories for her little brother Ollie. Her outlandish plots and whimsical characters help fortify them against the hope...
Shelley Burr on an unsolved disappearance that haunts a small farming community in 'WAKE'
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The small town of Nannine was once a thriving outback centre but years of punishing drought taken their toll. Nannine still has one remaining claim to...
A F Steadman on the magical world of unicorns in 'Skandar and the Unicorn Thief'
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Soar into a world where unicorns are real but also deadly and can only be tamed by the riders who hatch them. Skandar Smith has always wanted to be a ...
Catherine Deveny on emerging from oppression and finding her tribe in 'True North'
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When writer Catherine Deveny faced the end of a seventeen-year relationship with the father of her children she knew she had to create space for a new...
Jackie Huggins and Ngaire Jarro on a remarkable indigenous serviceman in 'Jack of Hearts QX11594'
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jackie Huggins and Ngaire Jarro are sisters from the Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru nations. One hundred years since the birth of their father John Henr...
Mark Tedeschi on the double murder case that gripped Australia in 'Missing Presumed Dead'
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Tedeschi AM QC has worked as a Barrister and Crown Prosecutor on some of Australia's most significant criminal cases. He led the prosecution...
Ruth Wilson on the healing power of literature in 'The Jane Austen Remedy'
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the age of seventy Ruth Wilson found herself grappling with both a physical diagnosis that affected her hearing and balance and unfathomable feelin...
Lauren Chater on the secrets locked up in 17th century clothing in 'The Winter Dress'
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jo Baaker is drawn back to the island of Texel to investigate the provenance of a 17th century silk dress unearthed by a local diving team. It offers ...
Eliza Hull on the trials of disabled parenting in 'We've Got This: Stories By Disabled Parents'
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When writer and musician Eliza Hull fell pregnant her excitement was tempered by the thought of the complexities she was about to face as a person of ...