Good Reading Podcast
Episodes
Rosie Andrews on a dark and disturbing period in English history in 'The Leviathan'
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a lonely farmhouse in Norfolk, 1703 Thomas Treadwater is a rational, modern man but he is hiding a terrible secret. Upstairs is a woman locked in a...
Jane Caro on the horrors of family violence in 'The Mother'
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Miriam Duffy is a respectable North Shore widow, real estate agent and devoted mother. When her youngest daughter Ally finds true love, Miriam is caut...
Annabel Abbs on the story of Britain's first great cookery author in 'The Language of Food'
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1845 Eliza Acton produced the first cookery book for domestic use, 'Modern Cookery In All Its Branches Reduced to System of Easy Practice for ...
Julie Bennett on the grand passion of opera and the underbelly of ambition in 'The Understudy'
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Carlton is an understudy of great promise just waiting for her moment in the spotlight. When star soprano Margaret Gardiner suddenly disappears...
Megan Albany on an exceptionally ordinary life and death in 'The Very Last List of Vivian Walker'
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vivian Walker is dying but that's NOT on her list of things to do. Being terminally ill is frustratingly routine but Vivian is determined to prep...
Michael Schur on 'How To Be Perfect: The Correct Answer To Every Moral Question'
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how we can live a more ethical life? Michael Schur has all the answers to the questions we've been asking ourselves for th...
Margaret Taft on a remarkable partnership in 'Leo and Mina Fink: For The Greater Good'
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During the darkest days of the Holocaust, Leo and Mina Fink rallied all the forces at their disposal to rescue the Jewish survivors of Nazi death camp...
Dr Michael Mosley on eating well, burning fat and managing weight long term in 'The Fast 800 Keto'
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Michael Mosley presents the latest scientific research explaining how the ketogenic diet works and why it is good for you. This new approach helps ...
Jillian Cantor on recasting an American classic in 'Beautiful Little Fools'
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is an icon of American literature. But what if this timeless classic was told from a completely different p...
Indyana Schneider on the pleasure and the pain of first love in '28 Questions'
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amalia and Alex fist set eyes on each other at an Oxford college bar. What begins as a friendship soon follows the tricky path to romance. But love co...
Kerri Maher on the history-making story of Sylvia Beach in 'The Paris Bookseller'
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Sylvia Beach opens an English-language bookshop on the bohemian Left Bank, Sylvia cannot know she is making literary history. Shakespeare and Com...
Michael Trant on creating an authentic Australian story in 'Wild Dogs'
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs in the remote rangelands of Western Australia. When he stumbles upon a gang of people smugglers about t...
Tony Wellington on 'Freak Out: How a Musical Revolution Rocked the World in the Sixties'
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Freak Out is the story of how we as a nation were dragged into global culture by the unstoppable momentum of rock and pop music. The music of the sixt...
Ben Sanders on the hardboiled crime fiction of New York City in 'Exit.45'
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Vialoux is in big trouble and he needs Marshall Grade's help. Over dinner in a Brooklyn restaurant the conversation is cut short by a gunshot...
Ann Patchett on what it all means in 'These Precious Days'
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this collection of essays Ann Patchett steps outside the world of fiction into the general mess of life. Exploring themes of family, friendship, ma...
John Hughes on recasting the stories of the ancients in 'Tales From The Greek'
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This monumental collaboration between award-winning author John Hughes and internationally-acclaimed painter and printmaker Marco Luccio breathes new ...
Jock Serong on the harrowing story of love and adventure on the high seas in 'The Burning Island'
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jock Serong is the winner of 2021 Historical Novel Society's ARA Prize for Historical Fiction for the second book in a three part trilogy explori...
Christine Manfield on bringing the world of Indian cuisine back home in 'Indian Cooking Class'
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Manfield's love affair with India and Indian food goes back more than thirty years. Extensive travel and a brilliant culinary mind, mar...
David Hunt on Australia's journey from colony to nationhood in 'Girt Nation'
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following on from David Hunt's first two volumes of The Unauthorised History of Australia, Girt and True Girt, Volume 3 takes a humorous look int...
Lynne McGranger on a full and joyous life in 'Acting Up: Me Myself and Irene'
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lynne McGranger is the longest serving female cast member of a television soap opera in Australia, having starred as Irene Roberts on Home and Away fo...
Jaclyn Moriarty on 'The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar From Elsewhere'
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oscar is out and about looking for the best place to skateboard when he comes across two other kids who reckon they've found it. Holding a mirror...
Inga Simpson on the perils of a post-apocalyptic world in 'The Last Woman in the World'
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fear has led Rachel to a reclusive life on the land with only occasional contact with the outside world. Her solitude is interrupted by a hammering on...
Peter Fitzsimons on 'The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's Greatest Explorer'
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of great Australian explorers, Sir Hubert Wilkins isn't a name that immediately comes to mind. Despite this, there have been few Au...
Christian White on the dangers lurking behind the peaceful facade of suburbia in 'Wild Place'
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic suburb of Camp Hill. As rumours of Satanic rituals swirl, schoolteacher Tom Witter b...
Katrina Nannestad on the remarkable true story of the Wolfskinder in 'We Are Wolves'
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'We Are Wolves' is the winner of the 2021 Historical Novel Society's ARA Historical Novel Prize in the Children's and Young Adult ...
Heather Morris on a remarkable story of courage and survival in 'Three Sisters'
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When they are still little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make the promise to their father that they will always stay together. When Cibi and Livia are ...
Nicci French on turning the everyday into a nail-biting psychological thriller in 'The Unheard'
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tess is a single mother with a three-year-old daughter Poppy but being an overprotective mother is complicating all of her personal relationships. Whe...
Samantha-Ellen Bound on magical realms in 'Seven Wherewithal Way'
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Celeste is having a very bad summer. Her parents are off travelling the world and she's left with little sister Esme and they're both desper...
Damien Cave on the Australian way of dealing with risk in 'Into the Rip'
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Having worked in Afghanistan and Mexico, Damien Cave thought he understood something about the subject of risk. When he brought his young family to Au...
Robert Wainwright on an Australian icon in 'Nellie: The Life and Loves of Dame Nellie Melba'
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dame Nellie Melba was Australia's first international superstar, taking Europe and America by storm with a voice that thrilled the world. Most Au...
Karen Foxlee on the healing power of magic and friendship in 'Dragon Skin'
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pip doesn't like going home anymore. Her Mum isn't the same since her new boyfriend moved in and to cap it off her best friend Mika has move...
Delia Falconer on how we are changing our inner world in 'Signs and Wonders'
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this series of interconnected essays Delia Falconer explores how it feels to live as a reader, a writer and a lover of nature in a era of unprecede...
Garry Linnell on the serial killer who shocked the world in The Devil's Work
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Born evil or simply mad? Frederick Bailey Deeming was known and reviled across three continents. He spent years travelling under various aliases, prey...
Lisa Millar on conquering fear and hitting a deadline in 'Daring to Fly'
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a child growing up in country Queensland Lisa Millar dreamed of having a big life. Now with years on the road as an ABC Foreign Correspondent behin...
Rosalba Jeffreys on bringing the story together for Robert Jeffrey's The Final Cut
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Back after suspension, Detective Sergeant Robert Cardilini is immediately tasked with solving domestic violence cases. To complicate matters, his new ...
Leigh Straw on Madam Monnier and Perth's notorious Roe Street brothels in The Petticoat Parade
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie de Bray was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the 1940s. This immensely readable social history uses the life o...
Professor Ian Lowe on the complexities of the nuclear industry in Australia in Long Half-life.
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Australia has been directly involved in the nuclear industry for decades: from the establishment of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in 1953 to...
Sarah Bailey on the thrill of the cold case in The Housemate
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Three housemates. One dead, one missing and one accused of murder.Melbourne journalist Olive 'Oli' Groves is obsessed with the 'Housema...
John M Green on the third book in the Dr Tori Swyft international spy thriller series, Double Deal
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tori Swyft wakes up in a Barcelona hotel room to a gruesome murder scene. With a splitting headache and no memory of the night before, her world is in...
Tim Ayliffe on the rise of the white supremacy movement in The Enemy Within
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Battle scarred investigative journalist and former war correspondent John Bailey is picking up the pieces of his life after the death of the one woman...
Nikki Gemmell on love, female creativity and finding your voice in Dissolve
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this deeply personal reflection on women's lives and creative desires Nikki Gemmell explores the struggle she experienced in finding her own c...
John Doyle on an Australian sporting legend in Blessed: The Breakout Year of Rampaging Roy Slaven
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1967 in Lithgow (the 'arsehole of the universe') and a young Roy Slaven is a promising student at the De La Salle Academy. He is a...
Tim Richards on the joys of Australian train travel in Heading South
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Richards is a freelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor who loves chasing down a story with an historical angle. He decided ...
Lisa Jewell on inventing characters and solving a crime as you write in 'The Night She Disappeared'
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scarlett Jacques is the girl everyone wants to be – charismatic, wealthy and desirable but also dangerous and manipulative. She's the coolest k...
Auntie Di on forgiving the past and discovering her true identity in 'Daughter of the River Country'
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dianne O'Brien (Auntie Di) grew up believing her Irish adoptive mother Val was her birth mother. When Val died while Dianne was still a teenager ...
Larissa Behrendt on the mother-daughter trip of a life time in After Story
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine takes her mother Della on an historical tour of the UK's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will heal o...
Dr Norman Swan takes on the wellness 'bullshit' in So You Think You Know What's Good For You?
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For over three decades Dr Norman Swan has been answering the questions Australians have been asking about the medical and lifestyles issues that conce...
Brigid Lowry on kindness, honesty and nourishing the soul in 'A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself'
06 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's not easy to maintain grace and good humour through the peaks and troughs of modern living. Throw in a pandemic, political upheaval and envir...
Helen Vines on separating fact from fiction in 'Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers'
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1942 Eve Langley published her first novel The Pea Pickers to critical acclaim. Hailed as a tour de force, it tells the story of two feisty sisters...
Brian Herd on planning for your ageing parents in Avoiding The Ageing Parent Trap
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us fail to confront the reality facing our ageing parents. Our inclination is to wait and see what happens but when a simple thing like a fall...
David Price on Western Australian frontier justice in 'Dark Tales from the Long River'
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when th...
Sinéad Stubbins on achieving self perfection, and her debut book 'In My Defence I Have No Defence'
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sinéad Stubbins has always known that there was a better version of herself lying just outside of her grasp. That if she listened to the right song o...
Clare Moleta on writing her debut novel and bridging the real and imagined in Unsheltered.
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In an atmosphere of chaos where social structures and the environment have been shattered by the effects of climate change, Li is tracking her lost da...
Kate Holden on the Croppa Creek killing that rocked NSW in 'The Winter Road'
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
July 2014, a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales: 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull takes out a .22 and shoots environmental o...
Kyle Mewburn on a life in transition in her memoir 'Faking It'
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a household with little love and no books, with a...
Rod Barton on his accidental entry into the world of espionage in 'The Life of a Spy'
02 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Rod Barton applied for a job at the Australian Department of Defence he had no idea where it would lead. For the next few decades he found himsel...
T W Lawless and Kay Bell on recreating a real Australian character in 'Furey's War'
02 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As he reluctantly celebrates his 100th birthday, Jack Furey casts his mind back to his experience during World War II as a police sergeant in Far Nort...
Kathryn Heyman on her memoir, 'Fury', and summoning the power to redraw the roadmap of her life
02 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
*Content warning: This podcast contains discussions of sexual assault and violence against women. Listener discretion is advised.' Kathryn Heyman...
Elfie Shiosaki on Noongar women's stories of resilience in 'Homecoming'
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Homecoming is a work of extraordinary beauty that awakens the voices of four generations of Elfie Shiosaki's family. Written using archival recor...
Rebecca Wilson on the untold story of Ned Kelly's little sister Kate Kelly
11 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A huge celebrity in her day, Kate Kelly was eventually forgotten while the reputation of the Kelly Gang graduated from folklore to cultural icon. Kate...
Lisa Genova on why forgetting isn't as bad as you think, and her first non-fiction book 'Remember'
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'Remember' is the first non-fiction novel from neuroscientist and 'Still Alice' author Lisa Genova, which delves into how memories...
Madelaine Dickie and Sam Carmody on Australian surf culture in Lines to the Horizon
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This anthology of Australian surf writing celebrates the diversity of surf culture from epic surf adventures in Mexico to the relationship of humans w...
Elizabeth Becker on three extraordinary female wartime journalists in 'You Don't Belong Here'
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Leroy, Frances Fitzgerald and Kate Webb arrived in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968 at the height of the war. Leroy was a French daredevil photograp...
Debra Oswald on the ethical and legal dilemmas of exploring family violence in The Family Doctor
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paula is a dedicated GP who witnesses the brutal murder of her friend and her children at the hands of their estranged husband and father. Paula is ha...
Helen Fitzgerald on blue light discos and small town disasters in 'Ash Mountain'
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Fitzgerald vividly portrays small town life, and a woman and a land in crisis in her latest thriller 'Ash Mountain'.Fran vowed she&apo...
Tanya Bretherton on the post-WWII Sydney women who killed in 'The Husband Poisoner'
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After World War II, Sydney experienced a crime wave that was chillingly calculated. Discontent mixed with despair, greed with callous disregard. Women...
Susan Johnson on unlikely friendships in 'From Where I Fell'
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Johnson exposes the truths and deceptions in relationships amid a blossoming online friendship between two women in 'From Where I Fell&apos...
Gretel Killeen on the highs and lows of mother-daughter love in My Daughter's Wedding
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nora Fawn's daughter Hope disappeared four years ago and only maintained contact through her big sister Joy. But last night Hope rang Nora to say...
'Mistakes come from vulnerability' - Katie McMahon on her salacious debut, 'The Mistake'
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bec and Kate are sisters, but they couldn’t be less alike. Bec lives the domestic dream with her surgeon husband Stuart and three perfect children. ...
Madeleine Ryan on autism, self love, and her introspective debut 'A Room Called Earth'
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to the people who come into her ...
Michael Brissenden on criminal thrills and a lost Sydney in 'Dead Letters'
07 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Brissenden's second crime thriller Dead Letters brings counter terrorism expert Sid Allen into the sordid and complicated world of Canber...
Maggie Hamilton on reconnecting with others in 'When We Become Strangers'
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're more connected that ever before says Maggie Hamilton and yet feelings of loneliness and isolation have never been more prevalent. We are no...
B Michael Radburn on the thunderous new novel in the Taylor Bridges series, 'The Reach'
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In secluded Devlins Reach, on the shores of the Hawkesbury River, three bodies are unearthed in an excavation site. When a wilderness expert, Park Ran...
Aaron Smith on Australia's cultural and moral divide in 'The Rock'
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Smith's new memoir holds up a unique mirror to Australia. What he sees is at once amazing, disturbing and revealing. The Rock explores the ...
Craig Sisterson shares the very best of Southern Cross Crime
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australian and New Zealand crime and thriller writing is booming globally, with antipodean authors regularly featuring on awards and bestseller lists ...
'There was a need to finish what Tilly Dunnage started' - Rosalie Ham on The Dressmaker's Secret
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It is 1953 and Melbourne society is looking forward to coronation season, the grand balls and celebrations for the young queen-to-be. Tilly Dunnage is...
'We need a different approach': Tim Flannery on solving our climate crisis in 'The Climate Cure'
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Flannery’s new book 'The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of Covid-19' marks a change in attitude toward those i...
'You are your baby's favourite rockstar' - Anita Collins on 'The Music Advantage'
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ground-breaking music educator Dr Anita Collins' new book The Music Advantage draws on the latest international neurological research to reveal t...
Alan Carter on returning to Sergeant Nick Chester and the Wakamarina Valley in 'Doom Creek'
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared and is out of hiding and looking forward to the quiet life. But gold fever is cr...
Ronni Kahn on finding her calling in 'A Repurposed Life'
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the owner of a successful events company, throwing away huge volumes of leftover food at the end of the day came with the territory. But when Ronni...
Heather Morris on the art of listening in 'Stories of Hope'
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Z...
Stella Budrikis on the 1907 trial that gripped Perth, 'The Edward Street Baby Farm'
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1907, Alice Mitchell was arrested for the murder of five-month-old Ethel Booth. During the inquest and subsequent trial, the general public was hor...
Ian McGuire unpacks his gritty story of revenge and the past, 'The Abstainer'
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Manchester, 1867 Stephen Doyle arrives in Manchester from New York. He is an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Fenians, a se...
Leon Silver on the true family story of love and survival in his book 'The Miracle Typist'
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler’s forces draw closer, Jewish soldier Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz. Ho...
Petronella McGovern unpacks her tense psychological thriller 'The Good Teacher'
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every evening, Allison watches her husband's new house, desperate to find some answers. Every morning, she puts on a brave face to teach kinderga...
Kate Mildenhall talks dystopia, motherhood & the sailing trip of a lifetime in 'The Mother Fault'
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him – especially The Department. And they should know, the all-see...
Meg Keneally on confronting (and escaping) the past in her colonial-era novel The Wreck
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1820 Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, thinks she has escaped when she finds herself aboard the Serpent, bound fr...
S L Lim on desire, art and the power of resistance in 'Revenge: Murder in three parts'
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A family favour their son over their daughter ... Shan attends university before making his fortune in Australia while Yannie must find menial employm...
Andrew Boe on Australia's flawed justice system in 'The Truth Hurts'
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on his experiences as a child of Burmese migrants fleeing a military junta and his evolution from a naive law clerk, too shy to speak, into a ...
Jess Scully on how a better world is possible in 'Glimpses of Utopia'
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to be excited about the future right now. Jess Scully asks, What can we do? The answer is: plenty! All over the world, people are refusing...
Rose Carlyle on exciting twists and evil twins
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Identical twins only look the same …Beautiful twin sisters Iris and Summer are startlingly alike, but beyond what the eye can see lies a darkness th...
AUGUST BOOK CLUB - A chat with Charlotte McConaghy
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How far you would you go for love? Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be the...
'Beyond the Pale': Adrian Tame on his time at Australia's most notorious paper in 'The Awful Truth'
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hailed as ‘a fearless exposer of folly, vice and crime’ when it first hit the streets in the 1890s, Truth was later condemned by a High Court Judg...
Paddy Manning shares the human cost of climate change in 'Body Count'
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Suddenly, when the country caught fire, people realised what the government has not: that climate change is killing us. But climate deaths didn’t st...
Julie Sprigg on the life of a physiotherapist in Ethiopia in 'Small Steps'
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As a child, Julie dreamed of being somewhere else, of making a difference. Now, she can’t wait to meet the nuns she will live with and the children ...
Greg James & Chris Smith on the exciting finale of the 'Kid Normal' series
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Murph Cooper is famous … and he's not happy about it.Kid Normal and the Super Zeroes used to save the day in secret. But suddenly everyone know...
'Fear isn't just natural, it's necessary': Eva Holland on the science behind phobias in 'Nerve'
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, Eva Holland was forced to confront her greatest fear when her mother unexpectedly had a stroke and passed away. After the shock and grief sub...
Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick on changing Australia's history in 'On a Barbarous Coast'
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On a night of raging winds and rain, Captain Cook's Endeavour lies splintered on a coral reef off the coast of far north Australia. A small dispa...
Hayley Katzen on bushfires and belonging in her memoir 'Untethered'
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When urban academic Hayley Katzen moves to a remote Australian cattle property to live with her farmer girlfriend, she hopes, at last, to find home. B...
Lucy Worsley on a lifetime of loving Jane Austen
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Austen has always been told she must marry rich. Her future depends upon it. While her dear cousin Fanny has a little more choice, she too is und...