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07 Dec 2025
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Bri Lee, Madeleine Gray and Kate Mildenhall break the mould with their new books about fraying fami...
05 | Dear Jane — The endlessly adaptable Austen
04 Dec 2025
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Why is Jane Austen endlessly adaptable? After all, her Pride and Prejudice character, Elizabeth Ben...
Jeanette Winterson releases the reading Genie
30 Nov 2025
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For Jeanette Winterson, reading has been her liberation but she's worried about its future. She ask...
04 | Dear Jane — Reading Emma in Pakistan
27 Nov 2025
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Jane Austen's influence has spread well beyond the Anglosphere 250 years after her birth and today ...
Megha Majumdar and Sally Hepworth on climate crisis and granny serial killers
23 Nov 2025
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Megha Majumdar's The Guardian and the Thief asks what a billionaire, a manager and homeless person ...
03 | Dear Jane — Persuasion, the original second chance romance
20 Nov 2025
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Jane Austen's novel Persuasion was the last she completed before her death and it is considered a m...
Ben Elton and the case for popular fiction
16 Nov 2025
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British comic Ben Elton on the Aussie inspiration for writing fiction, and Miles Franklin winner So...
02 | Dear Jane — the perfectly plotted Pride and Prejudice
13 Nov 2025
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In a Jane Austen novel, what does it mean if a character is in the Navy? What role do aunts and sil...
Pod extra: David Szalay wins the Booker Prize
11 Nov 2025
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The British-Hungarian author David Szalay restrained novel Flesh has won the 2025 Booker Prize. Th...
Patricia Lockwood on Dolly the sheep and long covid
09 Nov 2025
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Patricia Lockwood's latest book is the third exploring her inner state, just don't call it a trilog...
01 | Dear Jane — the wild, not mild, Jane Austen
06 Nov 2025
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We're celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday with Dear Jane, a brand-new series about her life, h...
Who will win the Booker Prize?
02 Nov 2025
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Become a Booker Prize expert and meet the shortlisted authors before the winner is announced in a c...
An American elegy with Eric Puchner and Jane Harper on grief and the disappeared
26 Oct 2025
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The American elegy, Dream State by American author Eric Puchner is one of Claire's favourite books ...
Celebrating Australia's favourite reads with Trent Dalton, Hannah Kent and Barbara Kingsolver
19 Oct 2025
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The Top 100 Books of the 21st Century countdown is complete and now it's time to find out the inspi...
Heather Rose, Omar Musa and Natalia Figueroa Barroso on champagne, ghosts and the disappeared
12 Oct 2025
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Heather Rose found writing her latest novel challenging because it's partly based on some murky fam...
Peter Carey on not writing fiction anymore
05 Oct 2025
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It's 25 years since True History of the Kelly Gang came out and while Peter Carey might not be writ...
Trent Dalton and David Malouf — Brisbane's favourite sons
28 Sep 2025
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Trent Dalton's new novel Gravity Let Me Go is about a middle aged journalist who can't let go of a ...
How Ian McEwan is using the future to explore the present
21 Sep 2025
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Ian McEwan's futuristic novel What We Can Know is about rising sea levels and a lost poem. Plus, Ra...
Arundhati Roy and Mick Herron on monstrous mothers and Slow Horses
14 Sep 2025
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God of Small Things author Arundhati Roy remembers her difficult mother and how she was shaped as a...
Toni Jordan, Richard Osman and Gail Jones on greyhounds, murder and mystery
07 Sep 2025
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Australian author of Addition, Toni Jordan, goes gambling with greyhounds in Tenderfoot, Richard Os...
Top 100 Books with Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Bradley
31 Aug 2025
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Discover the favourite books from the 21st century of Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Brad...
R.F. Kuang goes to hell with Katabasis
24 Aug 2025
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Yellowface author R.F. Kuang returns to speculative fiction with her latest novel Katabasis, a camp...
Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Mills and Rhett Davis ask what's next
17 Aug 2025
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Russian born US writer Gary Shteyngart imagines a future America with strong parallels to Russia in...
Florence Knapp and Brandon Jack on the power of a name
10 Aug 2025
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Florence Knapp's debut novel The Names is a sliding doors story about the naming of a child and has...
Amy Bloom, Ben Markovits and Barbara Truelove on love, basketball and monsters
03 Aug 2025
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Amy Bloom on her latest novel I'll Be Right Here about an unconventional chosen family, Ben Markovi...
Ben Okri, Jana Wendt and Thomas Vowles on heartbreak, new beginnings and queer Melbourne
27 Jul 2025
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Booker Prize-winning Nigerian author Ben Okri on his novella Madame Sosostris and the Festival for ...
"Shimmering" and "strikingly new" — Siang Lu wins Miles Franklin Literary Award
24 Jul 2025
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“Shimmering” and “strikingly new”—Siang Lu takes out the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Awa...
John Boyne, Maggie Stiefvater and Laura Elvery on hope, enemy diplomats and Florence Nightingale
20 Jul 2025
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John Boyne concludes his challenging series The Elements with Air, US writer Maggie Stiefvater take...
From a debut to two-time winner — the Miles Franklin shortlist is here
13 Jul 2025
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From Miles Franklin prize veteran Michelle de Kretster to debut novelist Winnie Dunn, we bring you ...
Ocean Vuong and Fleur McDonald reimagine Connecticut and Kalgoorlie
06 Jul 2025
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US poet, Ocean Vuong says when he was growing up "being a writer was like being a unicorn" but now ...
Esther Freud has a lot to say about sisters
29 Jun 2025
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Esther Freud mines her family story to discover new truths in My Sister and Other Lovers, Dominic A...
Yael van der Wouden on sex, history and an incredible year
22 Jun 2025
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Fresh off her 2025 Women’s Prize win, Yael van der Wouden talks The Safekeep—the novel that’s...
Catherine Chidgey, Kevin Wilson and Josephine Rowe on history, travel and an almost saint
15 Jun 2025
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New Zealand author Catherine Chidgey asks, what if World War II had ended differently in her latest...
Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey loosens the reins
08 Jun 2025
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Samantha Harvey didn’t mean to write a space novel—but Orbital won the Booker. At the 2025 Marg...
Alan Hollinghurst and Charlotte Wood on gay lives and celebrity nuns
01 Jun 2025
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Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst reflects on writing about gay lives and Booker Prize shortlis...
Liane Moriaty and David Nicholls on small screen success
25 May 2025
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From Sydney Writers Festival, two bestselling writers, David Nicholls and Liane Moriarty, reveal wh...
Kaliane Bradley, Rumaan Alam, success and 'sexy dead guys'
18 May 2025
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Kaliane Bradley shares the serious side to her obsession with muttonchops and time travel, with her...
Marian Keyes — "I have lived many lives"
12 May 2025
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Irish writer Marian Keyes on family, wisdom, and writing through the chaos. At Margaret River, she ...
Eimear McBride, Tasma Walton and James Bradley on stormy weather and broken families
04 May 2025
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Irish writer Eimear McBride revisits favourite characters on a rainy night, actor-turned-writer Tas...
Mother fault lines with Betty Shamieh, Debra Oswald and Naima Brown
27 Apr 2025
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Palestinian American playwright Betty Shamieh turns to fiction in Too Soon, a nuanced and lusty sto...
Chigozie Obioma on kindness, big families and the Biafran War
20 Apr 2025
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Booker Prize shortlisted Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma joined Claire Nichols at Byron Writers Fes...
Gregory Maguire has another Wicked tale to tell
13 Apr 2025
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American writer Gregory Maguire joins Claire Nichols in a rare and revealing conversation about the...
Charlotte McConaghy on The Wild Dark Shore
06 Apr 2025
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A small family lives on a remote island, the father a caretaker for the world's seeds. Then in the ...
Roisin O'Donnell and a woman on the run
30 Mar 2025
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A mother escapes a controlling husband. But that is just the beginning. Nesting, the debut novel fr...
Laila Lalami, Steven MinOn and Madeleine Ryan on mining dreams, a walking corpse and a very bad day
23 Mar 2025
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Award-winning Moroccan American author Laila Lalami imagines a world where the most intimate aspect...
Bernhard Schlink, Vincenzo Latronico and Diana Reid on transitions, ennui and memory
16 Mar 2025
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A story of finding family, Bernhard Schlink's latest novel The Granddaughter, examines the lingerin...
Rachel Kushner on writing spies, anarchists and Neanderthals
09 Mar 2025
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American writer Rachel Kushner joins Claire Nichols on the stage at Adelaide Writers Week for a con...
Colum McCann, Robert Lukins and Jane Yang on repair, the ultra-rich and bound feet
02 Mar 2025
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In his latest book Twist, New York-based Irish writer Colum McCann dives into the digital age, trav...
Morgan Talty on family, blood and belonging
23 Feb 2025
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Penobscot Indian Nation writer Morgan Talty's Fire Exit is a story of family bonds that go beyond b...
My Biggest Book 06 | Markus Zusak on The Book Thief
22 Feb 2025
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In this final episode of My Biggest Book, where prominent authors reflect on their defining books, ...
When Makassar and Yolnu peoples met, a long history told in A Piece of Red Cloth
16 Feb 2025
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The Yolnu people of the Northern Territory had a fruitful trading relationship with the Makassar pe...
My Biggest Book 05 | Roddy Doyle on The Commitments
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode of My Biggest Book, where prominent authors reminisce about the book that defined t...
Eowyn Ivey on Alaska, bears and magic
09 Feb 2025
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Eowyn Ivey is best known for her magical debut novel, The Snow Child, a book set in her home state ...
My Biggest Book 04 | Nikki Gemmell on The Bride Stripped Bare
08 Feb 2025
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For journalist and writer Nikki Gemmell her Biggest Book was a huge commercial success, but it had ...
Juhea Kim: City of Night Birds
02 Feb 2025
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Claire speaks to Juhea Kim about her latest novel which centres around an elite Russian ballet dan...
My Biggest Book 03 | Emma Donoghue on Room
01 Feb 2025
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In this episode of My Biggest Book, where prominent authors ponder their breakthrough novels, Emma ...
David Baldacci; Sara Haddad's novella The Sunbird
26 Jan 2025
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David Baldacci is the bestselling writer of heroes like Mickey Gibson and Aloysius Archer. He's wri...
My Biggest Book 02 | Hanif Kureishi on The Buddha of Suburbia
25 Jan 2025
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There's an extra element to this second episode of My Biggest Book, where some of the world's bigge...
The prolific Alexander McCall Smith
19 Jan 2025
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Look in any library or book shop at any time of year and there's bound to be a newly released Alexa...
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18 Jan 2025
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What is it like to write a book that changes your life? Some of the world’s biggest authors remin...
Summer reading with Andrew O'Hagan and Evie Wyld
12 Jan 2025
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Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan explains why finishing his latest novel Caledonian Road was like "la...
Summer reading with Anne Enright
05 Jan 2025
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At Adelaide Writers' Week, Booker Prize-winner Anne Enright speaks about the contradictions at the ...
Summer Reading with Celeste Ng
29 Dec 2024
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From Sydney Writers' Festival, American author Celeste Ng shares how her latest novel Our Missing H...
Summer reading with Tim Winton, Kaliane Bradley and Siang Lu
22 Dec 2024
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Tim Winton explains his urgency for writing about climate change in his new novel Juice, Kaliane Br...
Summer reading with Melissa Lucashenko
15 Dec 2024
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At Adelaide Writers' Week, Melissa Lucashenko explains how understanding that "all history is ficti...
Niall Williams and Nick Harkaway on Christmas miracles and special fathers
08 Dec 2024
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Irish writer Niall Williams's latest novel Time of the Child celebrates the miracles of everyday li...
Will Self gets personal about his mother
01 Dec 2024
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British writer Will Self reveals the extent of his "mother-worship" in his writing which has culmin...
Alan Moore's delirious new fantasy The Great When
24 Nov 2024
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Comic book legend, Alan Moore has renounced comics for novels and his new book The Great When uncov...
Roddy Doyle and the character who's stayed with him
17 Nov 2024
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Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle returns to the character Paula Spencer who first appeared in his fi...
Pod extra with Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey
13 Nov 2024
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This year's winner of the Booker Prize is British author Samantha Harvey for her fifth novel, Orbit...
Garry Disher, Emily Maguire and David Dyer on a milestone, a myth and the moon landing
10 Nov 2024
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Australian crime writer Garry Disher has been writing for almost 50 years but has only recently bee...
Your ultimate guide to the Booker Prize
03 Nov 2024
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For the first time in a decade, an Australian writer, Charlotte Wood has made the Booker Prize shor...
Robbie Arnott, Fiona McFarlane and Malcolm Knox on wild cats, crime and satire
27 Oct 2024
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A wild puma stalks through Robbie Arnott's haunting new novel, Dusk, Fiona McFarlane's homage to tr...
Tim Winton's call to action in Juice
20 Oct 2024
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Tim Winton explains his urgency for writing about climate change in his new novel Juice, beware the...
Grande Dames Pat Barker and Kate Atkinson
13 Oct 2024
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Former Booker Prize winner Pat Barker grapples with the lot of Cassandra in her latest Ancient Gree...
Onyi Nwabineli, Ella Baxter and Melanie Cheng on Mumflencers, stalkers and rabbits
06 Oct 2024
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British author Onyi Nwabineli explores the scars of a child influencer in Allow Me to Introduce Mys...
Writing with an agenda — Laura Jean McKay, Laurie Steed and Chemutai Glasheen
30 Sep 2024
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Today we take to you to two writers festivals: In Perth, Laura Jean McKay, Laurie Steed and Chemuta...
Rumaan Alam — why we don't talk about money
23 Sep 2024
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Bestselling author of Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam explores money obsession in his novel Ent...
Richard Osman's new crime-fighting team
16 Sep 2024
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Richard Osman has followed up his bestselling crime series The Thursday Murder Club with a new seri...
Elif Shafak and the water that connects us
09 Sep 2024
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Celebrated British-Turkish author Elif Shafak follows a single drop of water through history in her...
Meet Meena Kandasamy: poet, novelist, rebel
02 Sep 2024
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Meena Kandasamy is an Indian born poet, novelist, rebel and activist who's been threatened and hara...
Evie Wyld's writing tip: put a shark in it
26 Aug 2024
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Award-winning author Evie Wyld on her new book The Echoes, and why there are so many sharks in her ...
Chigozie Obioma on kindness, big families and the Biafran War
19 Aug 2024
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Booker Prize shortlisted Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma joined Claire Nichols at Byron Writers Fes...
Looking to the stars with Ceridwen Dovey, Emily St John Mandel and more
12 Aug 2024
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For Science Week, The Book Show goes intergalactic in a star themed episode. Ceridwen Dovey, Alicia...
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville write a book together
05 Aug 2024
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Hollywood star Keanu Reeves and British science fiction author China Miéville reveal how they coll...
Pod extra: Alexis Wright makes literary history
01 Aug 2024
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Alexis Wright is the 2024 winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Praiseworthy. S...
Meet Samantha Shannon's biggest critic: herself
29 Jul 2024
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Samantha Shannon has such power as a bestselling writer that she's reissued her fantasy Bone Season...
Meet the authors on the 2024 Miles Franklin shortlist
22 Jul 2024
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'Flabbergasted' and 'surprised' — ahead of the winner announcement, the Miles Franklin shortliste...
R.O. Kwon's ambitions and desires
15 Jul 2024
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American author R.O. Kwon's novel, Exhibit, explores the taboo topic of female desire; Jenny Acklan...
Writer to writer with Claire G Coleman and Dylan Coleman
08 Jul 2024
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For NAIDOC week, Indigenous speculative fiction author Claire G Coleman chats to Dylan Coleman abou...
Bri Lee and Liam Pieper take down celebrity art
01 Jul 2024
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Australian writers Bri Lee and Liam Pieper's latest novels expose the unholy connection between mon...
Kevin Kwan wrote a book about weddings, just don't invite him to one
24 Jun 2024
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Weddings of the ultra-rich get the Kevin Kwan treatment in his novel Lies and Weddings, Siang Lu's ...
Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch and his fear of mediocrity
17 Jun 2024
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Two authors at the top of their game: Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch reveals how his award winning ...
Jeanette Winterson and Kate Grenville on the gift of writing
10 Jun 2024
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Jeanette Winterson asks how AI will give new meaning to ghost stories and Kate Grenville reflects o...
Celeste Ng — "Every one of my books starts with a question"
03 Jun 2024
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American author Celeste Ng shares how her latest novel Our Missing Hearts explores one of her deepe...
Shankari Chandran, Stuart Turton and Julie Janson on refuge, failure and outlaws
27 May 2024
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Shankari Chandran's follow up to her Miles Franklin award winning book, British author Stuart Turto...
Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn sequel
20 May 2024
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One of Colm Toibin's most beloved books is Brooklyn and now he's written a sequel, Long Island.Broo...
Banned Books 05: Censorship in Iran
18 May 2024
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Iran's Kafka like book censorship is causing authors to flee, including writer Shokoofeh Azar who n...
Percival Everett reimagines Huckleberry Finn
13 May 2024
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Percival Everett, a prolific author known for his versatility across various genres and styles, rei...
Banned Books 04: USA's most banned book in Australia
11 May 2024
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Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is the most banned book in the USA and now it's being challenged in t...