Beginnings and endings with Holly Ringland, Elizabeth Strout and Jane Harper
16 Oct 2022
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Three literary superstars share the inspiration for their books and how to give a character a good ...
Kamila Shamsie and NoViolet Bulawayo on the rise and fall of dictators
09 Oct 2022
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Former winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie and Booker Prize-shortlisted author N...
Andrew Sean Greer and Craig Silvey share the joy
02 Oct 2022
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Finding joy in fiction with Pulitzer winner Andrew Sean Greer whose lovable character Arthur Less r...
AM Homes plots an American revolution
25 Sep 2022
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Can a book predict the future? AM Homes' latest novel The Unfolding follows a group of Republicans ...
Booker magic with Ian McEwan, Percival Everett and Jay Carmichael
18 Sep 2022
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Shortlisted Booker author Percival Everett kicks off our Booker Prize coverage with a discussion of...
Historical resurrection with Maggie O'Farrell, Robert Drewe and Zaheda Ghani
11 Sep 2022
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Maggie O'Farrell says her latest novel The Marriage Portrait came to her in "a lightning bolt momen...
Sloane Crosley's Cult Classic a rom-com with a twist
04 Sep 2022
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American humourist Sloane Crosley explores the dating scene in New York City, but with a twist, in ...
Hannah Gadsby on comedy, self-awareness and living an authentic life — bonus episode
31 Aug 2022
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From growing up surrounded by homophobia in a small Tasmanian town to getting married in 2021, awar...
Star Wars, monks and puffins — Emma Donoghue on Haven
28 Aug 2022
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Author of Room, Emma Donoghue questions the zealotry of monks in her latest novel, Haven, set on ...
Tim Winton on a life of accidents, successes, and the business of 'useless beauty' — bonus episode
23 Aug 2022
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It's been 40 years since Tim Winton published his first novel, An Open Swimmer. Today he is the bel...
Spirituality and writing with Ruth Ozeki and Ann Cleeves
21 Aug 2022
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Women's Prize for Fiction winner, Ruth Ozeki, is also a Zen Buddhist priest and explains how this p...
Trees in fiction with Richard Powers, Hannah Kent, Elif Shafak and more
15 Aug 2022
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Trees take root in fiction—from family ties to climate change. Richard Powers, Hannah Kent, Elif ...
Double trouble — crime fiction with Dervla McTiernan and Aoife Clifford
08 Aug 2022
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For ABC Arts Week, we celebrate literary events at your local bookstore with a couple of conversati...
Sibling rivalry and secrets with Liane Moriarty
01 Aug 2022
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Bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, Liane Moriarty, shares stories fr...
Surprising journeys with Jessie Burton, Thomas Mayor and Sulari Gentill
25 Jul 2022
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Jessie Burton wasn't finished with the main characters in her bestselling debut novel The Miniaturi...
Meet the 2022 Miles Franklin Shortlist
18 Jul 2022
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Ahead of the announcement of the winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's most pres...
'I guess I'm a weirdo' — Benjamin Myers on crop circles and being a loner
11 Jul 2022
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British author Benjamin Myers says he likes to be on the margins as a writer and his latest novel, ...
Anita Heiss, Tony Birch and SJ Norman grapple with the past
04 Jul 2022
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For NAIDOC Week, three Aboriginal writers who are grappling with the past: Anita Heiss takes the 18...
'They're about real things' — Madeline Miller on the popularity of Greek myths
27 Jun 2022
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American author Madeline Miller has found a new audience for her prize winning novel Circe on #Book...
'I got obsessed with horses' — Geraldine Brooks on her novel Horse
20 Jun 2022
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brookes says she "didn't grow up as a horse obsessed girl" ...
Meg Mason's surprise success with Sorrow and Bliss
13 Jun 2022
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Meg Mason thought her second novel, Sorrow and Bliss wouldn't be published, it was and is now short...
'I wish I’d had more resolution of character' — Booker winner Damon Galgut on privilege and power
06 Jun 2022
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Booker-winning writer Damon Galgut wasn’t always aware of his privilege, growing up as a white ma...
Lessons in life, mortality and love from Julian Barnes
30 May 2022
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British Booker winner Julian Barnes's latest novel, Elizabeth Finch, is about a life-changing teach...
Moon colonies and the 'Mandelverse' with Emily St John Mandel
23 May 2022
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Canadian author, Emily St John Mandel, says the pandemic changed her as a writer. Her latest, Sea o...
Family troubles with Steve Toltz, Audrey Magee and Toni Jordan
16 May 2022
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Here Goes Nothing is the last in what Steve Toltz calls his trilogy of fear which began with A Frac...
Queer stories with Douglas Stuart, Indyana Schneider and Omar Sakr
09 May 2022
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Booker winner Douglas Stuart's second novel, Young Mungo, is again set in gritty working class Glas...
Mum’s the word with Dawn French, Douglas Stuart, Anne Enright, Alice Pung and more
02 May 2022
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We meet some of the most remarkable mothers in recent fiction, with authors including Dawn French, ...
Jennifer Down and Jonathan Franzen relive the 1970s
25 Apr 2022
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Jennifer Down doesn't turn away from uncomfortable truths in her Stella Prize shortlisted novel, Bo...
Hannah Kent and Michelle Johnston unearth the past
18 Apr 2022
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Hannah Kent reflects on her time as an exchange student in Iceland and how it allowed her to pursue...
Jennifer Egan's Goon Squad follow-up
11 Apr 2022
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Pulitzer-prize winner, Jennifer Egan, is "interested in the ways technology interacts with our psyc...
Kári Gíslason gives new life to an old Icelandic saga
04 Apr 2022
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The Icelandic sagas have long been a source of fascination for Kári Gíslason and his latest novel...
Mythology and Marlon James — Moon Witch, Spider King
27 Mar 2022
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For his latest novel, Moon Witch, Spider King, Marlon James says "I was trying to connect with my o...
Recovery and 'ridey men' — Marian Keyes and Again, Rachel
20 Mar 2022
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'I have a full and beautiful life', says Irish writer Marian Keyes, 'The only thing I can't do is d...
Karen Joy Fowler targets John Wilkes Booth, America's first presidential assassin
13 Mar 2022
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Karen Joy Fowler wades into American Civil War history and the story of John Wilkes Booth, the firs...
Craig Silvey, Tony Birch and Dervla McTiernan’s joy of reading
06 Mar 2022
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Craig Silvey, Tony Birch and Dervla McTiernan share their love of reading from the Perth Festival W...
Isabel Allende writes about her mother, Markus Zusak gets your fanmail
27 Feb 2022
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Isabel Allende says her latest novel, Violeta, was inspired by her mother but also by Allende's own...
Immigrant stories of the Big Apple with Gary Shteyngart and Xochitl Gonzalez
20 Feb 2022
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Our Country Friends is a funny book set in upstate New York during the pandemic by US writer Gary S...
Love and literature with Hannah Kent, Roddy Doyle, Elif Shafak and more
13 Feb 2022
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From young love and forbidden romance to break-ups and long-term relationships: hear authors wax ly...
Jason Mott's Hell of a Book
06 Feb 2022
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Jason Mott's Hell of a Book lives up to its name: it has a snappy title, an eccentric narrator and ...
Secrets and lies in Monica Ali's Love Marriage
30 Jan 2022
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Almost 20 years after Brick Lane, Monica Ali is still unpicking the ins and outs of relationships i...
Hanya Yanagihara moves on from A Little Life
23 Jan 2022
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In her new book To Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara asks what would America be if its foundations were di...
Masterclass with George Saunders and Tsitsi Dangarembga
16 Jan 2022
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Two masters of the form, George Saunders and Tsisti Dangarembga, share lessons from their extensive...
Life at the extremes — Pat Barker, Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Ella Baxter
09 Jan 2022
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The Booker-winning author Pat Barker's preoccupation with who's allowed to speak and who isn't co...
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
02 Jan 2022
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Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro introduces us to his latest creation in Klara and the Sun, and we als...
Darkness and light with Patricia Lockwood, Jessie Tu and Ethan Hawke
26 Dec 2021
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"It's such a contradiction in life how much we learn from suffering," says actor and writer Ethan H...
From Karachi to Kamchatka — literary travel with Roddy Doyle, Arundhati Roy, Elizabeth Strout and more
19 Dec 2021
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International travel has been off the cards for many in the last two years, this literary world tou...
And the winner is: the book prize winners of 2021
12 Dec 2021
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Kate Grenville, Craig Silvey, Susanna Clarke, Nardi Simpson, Damon Galgut, Christos Tsiolkas and mo...
'People were already forgetting' — Jodi Picoult confronts the pandemic
05 Dec 2021
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Unlike many authors, Jodi Picoult decided to take on COVID-19 in Wish You Were Here, because Picoul...
How Val McDermid's time as a newspaper journalist inspired a new crime series
28 Nov 2021
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Scottish crime writer Val McDermid's new book, 1979, is the beginning of a new series inspired by h...
Creative lives of a Booker, Stella and Nobel winner — Bernardine Evaristo, Charlotte Wood and Abdulrazak Gurnah
21 Nov 2021
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"I never sunk into complacency in any aspect of my life." Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo o...
Christos Tsiolkas on beauty and art
14 Nov 2021
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"I can't separate the erotic and the sensual from the beautiful." Melbourne Prize for Literature wi...
Hannah Kent and Susanna Clarke on love and loneliness
07 Nov 2021
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Author of Burial Rites and The Good People, Hannah Kent says she wanted to look at human connection...