Meet the Writers
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Mar 24, 2022
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Want to know more about the authors behind your favourite books? Tune in to discover the methods of – and inspiration behind – some of the world’s most exciting writers. Every Saturday, Georgina Godwin hosts an in-depth discussion with the person behind the prose.
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Ece Temelkuran on exile, language and finding a new voice
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May 03, 2026 |
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Nicholas Thompson on leading change and running habits
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths and the weight of memory
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Catherine Carr and the complexities of sibling dynamics
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Maria Semple on stoicism, rebellion and personal growth
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney on writing with joy
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Margaret Busby on publishing, power and representation
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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Fatima Bhutto at the Daunt Books Festival 2026
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Francis Spufford on faith, fantasy and the craft of fiction
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Luka Ivan Jukic on the enduring significance of Central Europe
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Karen Dobres and pitch politics
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Tom Freston on media, reinvention and change
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Maria Alyokhina on activism, Russia’s regime and hope for the motherland
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Bora Chung on the rise of Korean literature
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Andrey Kurkov on chronicling a nation at war
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Damian Barr on Scottish art, memory and belonging
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Alexander B Smalls on opera, food and African heritage
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Steve Crawshaw and confronting global impunity
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Mary L Trump and how power destroys a nation
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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EA Hanks and retracing family ties
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Manni Coe on roots, ruins and reinvention
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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India Knight on finding Home
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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John Lloyd and ‘The Meaning of Liff’
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Sir Michael Palin on his travels, decades-long career and finding laughter
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Mitchell Kaplan, the founder of Miami Book Fair
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Harlan Greene at the 2025 Charleston Literary Festival
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Kiran Desai on loneliness, legacy and the curse of rewriting
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 winner: Helen Garner
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Richard Armitage and the power of storytelling
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Richard Lloyd Parry and the journeys within stories
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Olivier Norek on courage, conflict and history
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Sam Sussman on the possibility of family ties
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Juhea Kim on stories woven from silence
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Priyanka Mattoo on the search for home
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Michael Wolff on chaos, power and America’s reckoning
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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R James Breiding on what small nations teach the world
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Michelle de Kretser on literature and belonging
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Iain Sinclair on London, literature and hidden journeys
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Nick Berg on revolutions, exile and the stories that we inherit
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Iris Wolff on weaving memory into words
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan: Exiled voices on Russia
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Karin Slaughter on banned books and the fight for truth
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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The women redefining literary festivals
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Nick Harkaway and the legacy of Le Carré
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Jean McNeil on bearing witness to a disappearing world
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Guadalupe Nettel on human nature in fiction
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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C K Stead at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Karim Kattan on writing between languages and landscapes
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Michael and Matariki Bennett at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Damian Le Bas on writing between worlds
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Agustina Bazterrica at Hay Festival 2025
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Esther Freud on family, fiction and healing
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Damien Wilkins at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Eliza Reid on crafting her first mystery
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Meike Ziervogel on her humanitarian and literary drive
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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The Winners of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Miranda Cowley Heller on what lies beneath art and memory
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Ewan Morrison on AI and its side effects
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Tiffany Watt Smith on female friendships
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May 25, 2025 |
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Jeremy Vine: Broadcasting and the stories that matter
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May 18, 2025 |
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Ahmed Alnaouq: the voices of Gaza beyond the headlines
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May 11, 2025 |
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Lynda La Plante and the art of crime writing
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May 04, 2025 |
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Jenny Mustard on writing literary fiction
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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AC Grayling and making peace in the culture wars
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Rachel Shabi and the complexities of antisemitism
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Stephen May’s reimagination of Victor Grayson
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Natasha Brown on the effect of language
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zanzibar’s multicultural history
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Lauren Markham at the Lannan Literary Festival
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Janet de Neefe’s cultural ventures in Bali
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Tash Aw on writing the reality of Southeast Asia
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Ram Murali at Galle Literary Festival 2025
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Benjamin Moser at Jaipur Literature Festival 2025
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Sandip Roy at the 2025 Kolkata Literary Meet
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Angelo Tijssens: from the silver screen to the short novel
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Maggie Mackellar: the healing power of nature
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Caryl Phillips’s snapshot of the Windrush Generation
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Charles Hecker: Russia’s zero-sum game
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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This year’s highlight: Zeinab Badawi
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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The women behind Charleston Literary Festival
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Julie Taymor: the pride of writing for film and stage
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Lindsey Hilsum’s world in poems
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Namita Gokhale
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024: Richard Flanagan
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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The musical adventures of Mike Batt
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Yulia Mykytenko and her hope for Ukraine
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Jan Gradvall’s ties with Abba
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Gabriel Gatehouse
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Peter Godwin
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Lee Mylne
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Evie Wyld
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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The Afghan women writers who witnessed the fall of Kabul
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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William Dalrymple
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Imogen Sutton, Richard Williams and their ‘Adventures in Animation’
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Rabih Alameddine
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Sam Leith
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Magda Szubanski AO
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Nathan Thrall
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
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Aug 18, 2024 |