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Kaliane Bradley, Rumaan Alam, success and 'sexy dead guys'
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May 18, 2025 |
Marian Keyes — "I have lived many lives"
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May 12, 2025 |
Eimear McBride, Tasma Walton and James Bradley on stormy weather and broken families
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May 04, 2025 |
Mother fault lines with Betty Shamieh, Debra Oswald and Naima Brown
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Apr 27, 2025 |
Chigozie Obioma on kindness, big families and the Biafran War
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Apr 20, 2025 |
Gregory Maguire has another Wicked tale to tell
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Apr 13, 2025 |
Charlotte McConaghy on The Wild Dark Shore
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Apr 06, 2025 |
Roisin O'Donnell and a woman on the run
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Mar 30, 2025 |
Laila Lalami, Steven MinOn and Madeleine Ryan on mining dreams, a walking corpse and a very bad day
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Mar 23, 2025 |
Bernhard Schlink, Vincenzo Latronico and Diana Reid on transitions, ennui and memory
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Mar 16, 2025 |
Rachel Kushner on writing spies, anarchists and Neanderthals
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Mar 09, 2025 |
Colum McCann, Robert Lukins and Jane Yang on repair, the ultra-rich and bound feet
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Mar 02, 2025 |
Morgan Talty on family, blood and belonging
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Feb 23, 2025 |
My Biggest Book 06 | Markus Zusak on The Book Thief
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Feb 22, 2025 |
When Makassar and Yolnu peoples met, a long history told in A Piece of Red Cloth
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Feb 16, 2025 |
My Biggest Book 05 | Roddy Doyle on The Commitments
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Feb 15, 2025 |
Eowyn Ivey on Alaska, bears and magic
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Feb 09, 2025 |
My Biggest Book 04 | Nikki Gemmell on The Bride Stripped Bare
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Feb 08, 2025 |
Juhea Kim: City of Night Birds
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Feb 02, 2025 |
My Biggest Book 03 | Emma Donoghue on Room
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Feb 01, 2025 |
David Baldacci; Sara Haddad's novella The Sunbird
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Jan 26, 2025 |
My Biggest Book 02 | Hanif Kureishi on The Buddha of Suburbia
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Jan 25, 2025 |
The prolific Alexander McCall Smith
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Jan 19, 2025 |
My Biggest Book 01 | Audrey Niffenegger on The Time Traveler's Wife
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Jan 18, 2025 |
Summer reading with Andrew O'Hagan and Evie Wyld
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Jan 12, 2025 |
Summer reading with Anne Enright
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Jan 05, 2025 |
Summer Reading with Celeste Ng
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Dec 29, 2024 |
Summer reading with Tim Winton, Kaliane Bradley and Siang Lu
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Dec 22, 2024 |
Summer reading with Melissa Lucashenko
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Dec 15, 2024 |
Niall Williams and Nick Harkaway on Christmas miracles and special fathers
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Dec 08, 2024 |
Will Self gets personal about his mother
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Dec 01, 2024 |
Alan Moore's delirious new fantasy The Great When
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Nov 24, 2024 |
Roddy Doyle and the character who's stayed with him
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Nov 17, 2024 |
Pod extra with Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey
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Nov 13, 2024 |
Garry Disher, Emily Maguire and David Dyer on a milestone, a myth and the moon landing
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Nov 10, 2024 |
Your ultimate guide to the Booker Prize
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Nov 03, 2024 |
Robbie Arnott, Fiona McFarlane and Malcolm Knox on wild cats, crime and satire
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Oct 27, 2024 |
Tim Winton's call to action in Juice
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Oct 20, 2024 |
Grande Dames Pat Barker and Kate Atkinson
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Oct 13, 2024 |
Onyi Nwabineli, Ella Baxter and Melanie Cheng on Mumflencers, stalkers and rabbits
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Oct 06, 2024 |
Writing with an agenda — Laura Jean McKay, Laurie Steed and Chemutai Glasheen
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Sep 30, 2024 |
Rumaan Alam — why we don't talk about money
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Sep 23, 2024 |
Richard Osman's new crime-fighting team
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Sep 16, 2024 |
Elif Shafak and the water that connects us
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Sep 09, 2024 |
Meet Meena Kandasamy: poet, novelist, rebel
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Sep 02, 2024 |
Evie Wyld's writing tip: put a shark in it
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Aug 26, 2024 |
Chigozie Obioma on kindness, big families and the Biafran War
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Aug 19, 2024 |
Looking to the stars with Ceridwen Dovey, Emily St John Mandel and more
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Aug 12, 2024 |
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville write a book together
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Aug 05, 2024 |
Pod extra: Alexis Wright makes literary history
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Aug 01, 2024 |
Meet Samantha Shannon's biggest critic: herself
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Jul 29, 2024 |
Meet the authors on the 2024 Miles Franklin shortlist
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Jul 22, 2024 |
R.O. Kwon's ambitions and desires
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Jul 15, 2024 |
Writer to writer with Claire G Coleman and Dylan Coleman
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Jul 08, 2024 |
Bri Lee and Liam Pieper take down celebrity art
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Jul 01, 2024 |
Kevin Kwan wrote a book about weddings, just don't invite him to one
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Jun 24, 2024 |
Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch and his fear of mediocrity
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Jun 17, 2024 |
Jeanette Winterson and Kate Grenville on the gift of writing
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Jun 10, 2024 |
Celeste Ng — "Every one of my books starts with a question"
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Jun 03, 2024 |
Shankari Chandran, Stuart Turton and Julie Janson on refuge, failure and outlaws
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May 27, 2024 |
Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn sequel
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May 20, 2024 |
Banned Books 05: Censorship in Iran
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May 18, 2024 |
Percival Everett reimagines Huckleberry Finn
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May 13, 2024 |
Banned Books 04: USA's most banned book in Australia
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May 11, 2024 |
Val McDermid and Jonathan Seidler on ancient queens and modern love
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May 06, 2024 |
Banned Books 03: Homoerotic fiction in China
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May 04, 2024 |
Pod extra — Alexis Wright wins a second Stella Prize
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May 02, 2024 |
Téa Obreht and Emily O'Grady on Balkan fairytales, nepo babies and wild creatures
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Apr 29, 2024 |
Banned Books 02: The Satanic Verses and the fatwa
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Apr 27, 2024 |
Andrew O'Hagan's biggest novel yet
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Apr 22, 2024 |
Banned Books 01: Race and racism in the USA
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Apr 20, 2024 |
Sunjeev Sahota, Vanessa Chan and Winnie Dunn bring us stories from home
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Apr 15, 2024 |
André Aciman and Anjali Joseph on the joy of doing nothing
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Apr 08, 2024 |
Melissa Lucashenko on writing through flood, fire and pestilence
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Mar 31, 2024 |
Jane Smiley and Louise Milligan on stories they couldn't let go
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Mar 24, 2024 |
Jonathan Lethem returns to Brooklyn
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Mar 17, 2024 |
Anne Enright on motherhood, Irish poets and famous parents
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Mar 10, 2024 |
RF Kuang and Nam Le on Yellowface, mums and minorities
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Mar 03, 2024 |
Jennifer Croft, Imbi Neeme and Mykaela Saunders on translation, chewing and the Tweed
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Feb 25, 2024 |
Jasper Fforde, Amy Brown and Leo Vardiashvili on surprises, fairytales and rickrolling
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Feb 18, 2024 |
Kristin Hannah, Jodi McAlister and Sharlene Allsopp on women, war and love
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Feb 11, 2024 |
Hisham Matar and Ela Lee on the friendships that save you
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Feb 04, 2024 |
Kiley Reid, Rachael Johns and Iain Ryan on money, love and corruption
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Jan 28, 2024 |
Michael Cunningham and Madeleine Gray on romance and relationship breakdown
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Jan 21, 2024 |
Fakes and Frauds 05 | A big hoax — Wanda Koolmatrie and My Own Sweet Time
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Jan 16, 2024 |
Pip Williams, Shankari Chandran and Josh Kemp on bookbinding, bushwalking and book awards
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Jan 14, 2024 |
Fakes and Frauds 04 | Fake identity and Helen Demidenko's The Hand that Signed the Paper
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Jan 08, 2024 |
John Boyne, Esther Freud, Louise Kennedy and the Irish voice
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Jan 07, 2024 |
Fakes and Frauds 03 | Fabrication and lies in Marlo Morgan's Mutant Message Down Under
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Jan 02, 2024 |
Ian McEwan's most personal novel, plus Booker winner Paul Lynch
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Dec 31, 2023 |
Fakes and Frauds 02 | Fact or fiction in Norma Khouri's Forbidden Love
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Dec 26, 2023 |
Pulitzer Prize winners Barbara Kingsolver and Hernán Diaz
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Dec 24, 2023 |
Fakes and Frauds 01 | Plagiarism scandal in The Dogs by John Hughes
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Dec 19, 2023 |
Ego and creativity with Anna Funder and Paul Jennings
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Dec 17, 2023 |
Naomi Alderman and Charlotte Wood on bunkers, billionaires and nuns
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Dec 10, 2023 |
Amanda Lohrey, Matthew Reilly and Katherine Brabon on the sacred, swimming and Einstein
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Dec 03, 2023 |
Pod extra with the Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch
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Nov 27, 2023 |
Richard Flanagan on the atomic bomb, HG Wells and a kiss
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Nov 26, 2023 |
Tony Birch and Christos Tsiolkas on love, shame and dangerous dinner-parties
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Nov 19, 2023 |
Booker Prize shortlist — mythical, profound and lyrical
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Nov 12, 2023 |
"We don't come from nowhere" — Melissa Lucashenko on her historical novel Edenglassie
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Nov 05, 2023 |
Haunting fiction with Shehan Karunatilaka, Steve Toltz and many more
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Oct 29, 2023 |
Between two worlds with Jesmyn Ward, Graham Akhurst and Anna McGahan
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Oct 22, 2023 |
"It began with a crime" — Cassandra Clare's latest fantasy fiction
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Oct 15, 2023 |
Trent Dalton on homelessness, hope and the tyrannosaurus waltz
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Oct 08, 2023 |
Jeanette Winterson on avatars and the afterlife, plus Kate Mildenhall
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Oct 01, 2023 |
Sebastian Faulks and what makes us human
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Sep 25, 2023 |
Booker Prize winner: Margaret Atwood
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Booker Prize winner: Damon Galgut
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Booker Prize winner: Shehan Karunatilaka
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Booker Prize winner: George Saunders
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Booker Prize winner: Douglas Stuart
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Booker Prize winner: Bernardine Evaristo
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Feel good fiction with Anita Heiss, Marlon James, Monica Ali and more
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Zadie Smith on Jamaica, delusion and Dickens
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Sep 11, 2023 |
"We love the people we damage" — Anne Enright
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Sep 04, 2023 |
Coming of age with Chris Womersley, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Zeynab Gamieldien
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Aug 28, 2023 |
"Trinidad writes itself" — Kevin Jared Hosein's Hungry Ghosts, plus Kate Grenville
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Aug 21, 2023 |
Crime fiction queen Jane Harper on what she'll do next
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Aug 14, 2023 |
Ann Patchett and Tracy Sorensen on famous friends and talking organs
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Aug 07, 2023 |
Melancholy in the library with Patrick deWitt, Josh Kemp and Ali Cobby Eckermann
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Jul 31, 2023 |
Pod Extra with 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Shankari Chandran
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Jul 25, 2023 |
Anna Funder and Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
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Jul 24, 2023 |
Richard Ford says goodbye to his creation
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Jul 17, 2023 |
Myth-busting and Judge Judy with Tracey Lien and Nina Wan
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Jul 10, 2023 |
Writer to writer with Larissa Behrendt, Anita Heiss and Ellen van Neerven
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist 2023: pod extra interview special
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Jun 29, 2023 |
Booker winners Shehan Karunatilaka and Damon Galgut
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Jun 26, 2023 |
Lisa See's portrait of female friendship in Ming dynasty China
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Jun 19, 2023 |
Home, art and love with Kate Morton, Stephanie Bishop and Zoya Patel
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Jun 12, 2023 |
Max Porter and Barbara Kingsolver's lost boys
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Jun 05, 2023 |
Don Winslow, plus Fakes and Frauds #5 Wanda Koolmatrie hoax
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May 29, 2023 |
Trees in fiction with Richard Powers, Hannah Kent, Elif Shafak and more
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May 22, 2023 |
Fakes and Frauds #4 Helen Demidenko, plus Shirley Le
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May 15, 2023 |
Eleanor Catton, plus Fakes and Frauds #3 Mutant Message Down Under
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May 08, 2023 |
Curtis Sittenfeld, plus Fakes and Frauds #2 Norma Khouri
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May 01, 2023 |
Alexis Wright, plus Fakes and Frauds #1 The Dogs by John Hughes
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Apr 24, 2023 |
Mothers on the page with Larissa Behrendt, Alice Pung and Chloe Hooper
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Apr 17, 2023 |
Lessons in life, mortality and love from Julian Barnes
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Apr 10, 2023 |
Bookbinding and ghost towns with Pip Williams and Dominic Smith
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Apr 03, 2023 |
‘I didn’t know I had anger in me’ – Anindita Ghose kills off the patriarch
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Mar 26, 2023 |
John Boyne, Esther Freud, Louise Kennedy and the Irish voice
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Mar 19, 2023 |
Margaret Atwood on witches, cats and a lifetime of writing
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Mar 12, 2023 |
Grief, plague and Star Trek with Sequoia Nagamatsu
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Mar 05, 2023 |
Dragons, literary acrobatics and a house called Shirley with Samantha Shannon, Cate Kennedy and Ronnie Scott
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Feb 26, 2023 |
Love, lust and ghosts: celebrating queer fiction
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Feb 19, 2023 |
Ballet, bodies and grief with Meg Howrey, Inga Simpson and Dinuka McKenzie
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Feb 12, 2023 |
Parties, miracles and Pop Tarts with Deepti Kapoor, Michelle Johnston and Kevin Wilson
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Feb 05, 2023 |
Small-town murder with Julie Janson and Stuart MacBride
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Jan 29, 2023 |
Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Jennings come to terms with fame and ego
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Jan 22, 2023 |
Tim Winton on a life of accidents, successes, and the business of 'useless beauty'
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Jan 15, 2023 |
Jamaica's Marlon James creates an 'African Game of Thrones', plus Meg Mason
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Jan 08, 2023 |
Queer stories with Douglas Stuart, Indyana Schneider and Omar Sakr
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Jan 01, 2023 |
Craig Silvey, Tony Birch and Dervla McTiernan's joy of reading
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Dec 25, 2022 |
Prize winners Ruth Ozeki, Shehan Karunatilaka and Jennifer Down
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Dec 18, 2022 |
"Hardest thing I've ever written" — Heather Rose shares tales from her extraordinary life
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Dec 11, 2022 |
Superheroes and fun with NK Jemisin, Bonnie Garmus and Katharine Pollock
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Dec 04, 2022 |
"It's addictive" — George Saunders on short stories
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Nov 27, 2022 |
Ageing and autopsies with Alex Miller and Patricia Cornwell
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Nov 20, 2022 |
Paterson Joseph, Orhan Pamuk and Fiona McFarlane dig up the past
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Nov 13, 2022 |
Graham Norton and the power of the Irish mammy
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Nov 06, 2022 |
Why Ian Rankin keeps returning to Rebus
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Oct 30, 2022 |
Barbara Kingsolver finds the hillbilly in Charles Dickens
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Oct 23, 2022 |
Pod extra with the Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka
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Oct 18, 2022 |
Beginnings and endings with Holly Ringland, Elizabeth Strout and Jane Harper
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Oct 16, 2022 |
Kamila Shamsie and NoViolet Bulawayo on the rise and fall of dictators
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Oct 09, 2022 |
Andrew Sean Greer and Craig Silvey share the joy
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Oct 02, 2022 |
AM Homes plots an American revolution
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Sep 25, 2022 |
Booker magic with Ian McEwan, Percival Everett and Jay Carmichael
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Sep 18, 2022 |
Historical resurrection with Maggie O'Farrell, Robert Drewe and Zaheda Ghani
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Sep 11, 2022 |
Sloane Crosley's Cult Classic a rom-com with a twist
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Sep 04, 2022 |
Hannah Gadsby on comedy, self-awareness and living an authentic life — bonus episode
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Aug 31, 2022 |
Star Wars, monks and puffins — Emma Donoghue on Haven
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Aug 28, 2022 |
Tim Winton on a life of accidents, successes, and the business of 'useless beauty' — bonus episode
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Aug 23, 2022 |
Spirituality and writing with Ruth Ozeki and Ann Cleeves
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Aug 21, 2022 |
Trees in fiction with Richard Powers, Hannah Kent, Elif Shafak and more
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Aug 15, 2022 |
Double trouble — crime fiction with Dervla McTiernan and Aoife Clifford
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Aug 08, 2022 |
Sibling rivalry and secrets with Liane Moriarty
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Aug 01, 2022 |
Surprising journeys with Jessie Burton, Thomas Mayor and Sulari Gentill
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Jul 25, 2022 |
Meet the 2022 Miles Franklin Shortlist
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Jul 18, 2022 |
'I guess I'm a weirdo' — Benjamin Myers on crop circles and being a loner
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Jul 11, 2022 |
Anita Heiss, Tony Birch and SJ Norman grapple with the past
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Jul 04, 2022 |
'They're about real things' — Madeline Miller on the popularity of Greek myths
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Jun 27, 2022 |
'I got obsessed with horses' — Geraldine Brooks on her novel Horse
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Jun 20, 2022 |
Meg Mason's surprise success with Sorrow and Bliss
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Jun 13, 2022 |
'I wish I’d had more resolution of character' — Booker winner Damon Galgut on privilege and power
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Jun 06, 2022 |
Lessons in life, mortality and love from Julian Barnes
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May 30, 2022 |
Moon colonies and the 'Mandelverse' with Emily St John Mandel
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May 23, 2022 |
Family troubles with Steve Toltz, Audrey Magee and Toni Jordan
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May 16, 2022 |
Queer stories with Douglas Stuart, Indyana Schneider and Omar Sakr
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May 09, 2022 |
Mum’s the word with Dawn French, Douglas Stuart, Anne Enright, Alice Pung and more
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May 02, 2022 |
Jennifer Down and Jonathan Franzen relive the 1970s
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Apr 25, 2022 |
Hannah Kent and Michelle Johnston unearth the past
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Apr 18, 2022 |
Jennifer Egan's Goon Squad follow-up
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Apr 11, 2022 |
Kári Gíslason gives new life to an old Icelandic saga
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Apr 04, 2022 |
Mythology and Marlon James — Moon Witch, Spider King
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Mar 27, 2022 |
Recovery and 'ridey men' — Marian Keyes and Again, Rachel
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Mar 20, 2022 |
Karen Joy Fowler targets John Wilkes Booth, America's first presidential assassin
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Mar 13, 2022 |
Craig Silvey, Tony Birch and Dervla McTiernan’s joy of reading
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Mar 06, 2022 |
Isabel Allende writes about her mother, Markus Zusak gets your fanmail
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Feb 27, 2022 |
Immigrant stories of the Big Apple with Gary Shteyngart and Xochitl Gonzalez
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Feb 20, 2022 |
Love and literature with Hannah Kent, Roddy Doyle, Elif Shafak and more
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Feb 13, 2022 |
Jason Mott's Hell of a Book
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Feb 06, 2022 |
Secrets and lies in Monica Ali's Love Marriage
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Jan 30, 2022 |
Hanya Yanagihara moves on from A Little Life
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Jan 23, 2022 |
Masterclass with George Saunders and Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Jan 16, 2022 |
Life at the extremes — Pat Barker, Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Ella Baxter
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Jan 09, 2022 |
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
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Jan 02, 2022 |
Darkness and light with Patricia Lockwood, Jessie Tu and Ethan Hawke
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Dec 26, 2021 |
From Karachi to Kamchatka — literary travel with Roddy Doyle, Arundhati Roy, Elizabeth Strout and more
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Dec 19, 2021 |
And the winner is: the book prize winners of 2021
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Dec 12, 2021 |
'People were already forgetting' — Jodi Picoult confronts the pandemic
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Dec 05, 2021 |
How Val McDermid's time as a newspaper journalist inspired a new crime series
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Nov 28, 2021 |
Creative lives of a Booker, Stella and Nobel winner — Bernardine Evaristo, Charlotte Wood and Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Nov 21, 2021 |
Christos Tsiolkas on beauty and art
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Nov 14, 2021 |
Hannah Kent and Susanna Clarke on love and loneliness
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Nov 07, 2021 |
Pod extra with Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut
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Nov 04, 2021 |
Literary powerhouses Richard Powers and Michelle de Kretser on their latest novels
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Oct 31, 2021 |
Amor Towles takes a road trip on The Lincoln Highway
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Oct 24, 2021 |
Families, trees, and buried secrets with Liane Moriarty and Elif Shafak
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Oct 17, 2021 |
Patricia Lockwood
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Oct 14, 2021 |
Maggie Shipstead
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Oct 14, 2021 |
Anuk Arudpragasam
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Oct 14, 2021 |
Nadifa Mohamed
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Oct 14, 2021 |
Richard Powers
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Oct 14, 2021 |
Damon Galgut
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Oct 14, 2021 |
‘It became brutal’ —John Boyne responds to a twitter storm in Echo Chamber
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Oct 10, 2021 |
Faith and family with Jonathan Franzen on Crossroads
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Oct 03, 2021 |
Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr visits Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Sep 27, 2021 |
'It's absolutely magical' — Akala on reading as a superpower
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Sep 20, 2021 |
Pulitzer prize winner Colson Whitehead's crime caper, Harlem Shuffle
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Sep 13, 2021 |
'I could've got into trouble' — Actor Bryan Brown's crime fiction
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Sep 06, 2021 |
'It all starts with a fight' — Pat Barker gives voice to the women of Ancient Greece
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Aug 30, 2021 |
Crazy times with Kevin Kwan
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Aug 23, 2021 |
'I just wanted to rescue them' — Kate Grenville unravels her family history
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Aug 16, 2021 |
Identity, belonging, home and immigration are themes in Hafsa Zayyan's life and fiction
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Aug 09, 2021 |
Rahul Raina's satire about fame, fraud and Indian TV
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Aug 02, 2021 |
'My mother kept this secret for so long' — Esther Freud imagines a different path for her mother
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Jul 26, 2021 |
What happens when the internet cuts out? Rumaan Alam on his prescient domestic thriller
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Jul 19, 2021 |
Pod extra with 2021 Miles Franklin winner Amanda Lohrey
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Jul 15, 2021 |
What does the Miles Franklin shortlist say about Australia?
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Jul 12, 2021 |
'We are where we are because of resilience' — Larissa Behrendt's book about grief, family and literary travel
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Jul 05, 2021 |
Emma Jane Unsworth on the 'messy, punky stuff' of women's lives and bodies
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Jun 28, 2021 |
'There are no bodies' — Alexander McCall Smith on his version of Scandi crime fiction
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Jun 21, 2021 |