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Book talk and author interviews aimed at helping you discover your next favourite read, presented by Good Reading Magazine.

Episode Date
Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion on a mental health story of heart and humour, 'The Glass House'
Apr 18, 2024
Kathy Lette on getting the better of the patriarchy in 'The Revenge Club'
Apr 08, 2024
Dr Vanessa Pirotta dives into the mysterious world of whales in 'Humpback Highway'
Apr 03, 2024
Sydel Sierra on the power of cryptocurrencies and how to invest the right way in, 'All Time High'
Mar 24, 2024
Candice Fox on disrupting the hero trope in her latest thriller, Devil's Kitchen
Mar 23, 2024
Rachael Johns on love, romance and the power of books in 'The Other Bridget'
Mar 15, 2024
Julie Janson on the dangerous lives of Aboriginal women in colonial New South Wales in 'Compassion'
Mar 13, 2024
Nam Le on his new book of poetry, '36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem'
Mar 09, 2024
David Goodwin on working at the coal-face of retail in 'Servo: 'Tales from the Graveyard Shift'
Feb 25, 2024
Mariah Sweetman on the thrilling story of her great-great grandfather in 'Robert Runs'
Feb 24, 2024
Alecia Simmonds on love and marriage in 'Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law'
Feb 17, 2024
Dassi Erlich's memoir 'In Bad Faith' goes inside the secret ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect
Feb 11, 2024
James Foley on his brilliant colour graphic novels for kids, Brobot, Gastronauts and Stellarphant
Feb 11, 2024
Linda Margolin Royal on a story inspired by the Japanese Schindler, 'The Star on the Grave'
Jan 27, 2024
Skye McKenna on the continuing magical journey for fledgeling witch Cassie Morgan in 'Woodwitch'
Jan 19, 2024
Isobel Bevis on connecting children to Noongar culture in 'Nedingar' - Ancestors
Jan 14, 2024
Helen Milroy on her two new books for young children, 'Bush Bugs' and 'Crow Baby'
Jan 09, 2024
Annette Higgs on her first novel set in 19th-century Tasmania, 'On A Bright Hillside in Paradise'
Jan 07, 2024
Jack Heath on an unforgettable romantic weekend away in 'Kill Your Husbands'
Dec 12, 2023
Tracy Ryan on two remarkable Renaissance women of the Navarre in 'The Queen's Apprenticeship'
Nov 26, 2023
Charlotte Wood on contemplating life's big questions in 'Stone Yard Devotional'
Nov 18, 2023
Rachelle Unreich on 'A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust'
Nov 04, 2023
Katharine J Adams on the dark and magical world of her new YA novel, 'Tonight, I Burn'
Nov 02, 2023
Quentin Beresford goes inside Australia's biggest corporate scandals in 'Rogue Corporations'
Oct 30, 2023
Andy McNab on 'The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban'
Oct 29, 2023
Robyn Davidson on time, memory and a life driven by curiosity in 'Unfinished Woman'
Oct 27, 2023
Amelia Mellor on her 2023 Historical Novel prize-winning YA book, 'The Bookseller's Apprentice'
Oct 20, 2023
Gail Jones on her 2023 Historical Novel Society Australasia prize-winning book, 'Salonika Burning'
Oct 20, 2023
Paul Bangay on his journey from child gardener to design icon in 'A Life in Garden Design'
Oct 15, 2023
Val McDermid on the latest in the DCI Karen Pirie series of crime thrillers, 'Past Lying'
Oct 14, 2023
Levi Pinfold on illustrating a magical world for the 'The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac'
Oct 08, 2023
Molly Schmidt on small-town racism and the power of human connection in 'Salt River Road'
Oct 07, 2023
Sasha Kutabah Sarago on the Indigenous ideal of beauty and her journey to understand it in 'Gigorou'
Oct 06, 2023
James O'Hanlon on discovering the incredible world of spiders in 'Silk and Venom'
Sep 30, 2023
Anna Funder on Eileen O'Shaughnessy, the woman who made George Orwell in 'Wifedom'
Sep 23, 2023
Susan Duncan on love, community and the pleasures of life in 'Sleepless in Stringybark Bay'
Sep 17, 2023
Madonna King on 'Saving Our Kids The Inside Story of Taskforce Argos'
Sep 16, 2023
Deborah Fitzgerald on 'Her Sunburnt Country The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar'
Sep 16, 2023
Kirsty Manning on a story of courage and resilience in 'The Hidden Book'
Sep 09, 2023
Wendy Holden on the inside story of the young Diana Spencer in 'The Princess'
Sep 06, 2023
Otto English goes in search of the truth behind the myths in 'Fake Heroes'
Sep 04, 2023
Roger Simpson on the truth behind the Jane Halifax character in Halifax Resurrection.
Aug 25, 2023
Kate Mildenhall on connecting women's stories across time in 'The Hummingbird Effect'
Aug 20, 2023
Peter Papathanasiou on a West Australian road trip like no other in 'The Pit'
Aug 19, 2023
Dennis Glover on the legend and the legacy of R F Scott's Antarctic expedition in 'Thaw'
Aug 15, 2023
Matt Majendie on life and death with the big-wave surfers in 'Nazare'
Aug 13, 2023
Sam Twyford-Moore on the ins and outs of Australian actors in Hollywood in 'Cast Mates'
Aug 12, 2023
Frank Bongiorno on Mungo MacCallum's classic 'The Good, The Bad and the Unlikely'
Aug 03, 2023
Mark Brandi on the cargo of hopes, dreams and disappointment aboard 'Southern Aurora'
Jul 30, 2023
Professor Phil Hansbro on the science and the sense behind 'The Good Gut Anti-Inflammatory Diet'
Jul 26, 2023
Kelly Rimmer on the courageous Special Operations Executives of World War II in 'The Paris Agent'
Jun 28, 2023
Peter Burke on the atheist among the Swan River missionaries in 'The Silk Merchant's Son'
May 28, 2023
Katherine Kovacic on the connection we have with our canine friends in 'Australia's Dogs'
May 21, 2023
Om Dhungel on losing everything and finding Australia in 'Bhutan to Blacktown'
May 14, 2023
Anthony Cooper on the war correspondents on a suicide mission in 'Despatch From Berlin, 1943'
May 12, 2023
Kerri Sackville on the joys and benefits of a little alone time in 'The Secret Life of You'
May 11, 2023
Kim Anderson on the controversial Australian portrait that changed the nation in 'The Prize'
May 11, 2023
Catherine Therese on her first novel 'Things She Would have Said Herself'
May 11, 2023
Justin Cronin on building strange new worlds where nothing is as it seems in 'The Ferryman'
May 01, 2023
Anne Tiernan on family trauma and running from the past in her first novel, 'The Last Days of Joy'
Apr 25, 2023
Dianne Yarwood on life, death, friendship and great food in 'The Wakes'
Apr 24, 2023
Toni Jordan on her hilarious new comedy about losing control, 'Prettier If She Smiled More'
Apr 22, 2023
Ros Ben Moshe on the healing power of laughter in 'The Laughter Effect'
Apr 16, 2023
Stephanie Bishop on her dark and compulsive novel about creativity and desire, 'The Anniversary'
Mar 30, 2023
Pip Williams on the transcendent power of books in 'The Bookbinder of Jericho'
Mar 29, 2023
Margaret Simons on one of Australia's most influential women in 'Tanya Plibersek On Her Own Terms'
Mar 16, 2023
Christine Kenneally on institutional abuse, murder and justice in 'Ghosts of the Orphanage'
Mar 11, 2023
Kate Auty on the true story of the Forrest River massacre, 'O'Leary of the Underworld'
Mar 06, 2023
Ali Lowe on keeping up with murder in 'The Running Club'
Mar 04, 2023
Paul Ashford Harris on the cycles of history in 'Love, Oil and the Fortunes of War'
Feb 17, 2023
Deepti Kapoor on a world fuelled by greed, pleasure and violence in India's 'Age of Vice'
Feb 11, 2023
Paul Biegler answers a big question in 'Why Does It Still Hurt?'
Jan 23, 2023
Benison O'Reilly and Seana Smith on the new and updated edition of the Australian Autism Handbook
Jan 19, 2023
Sam and Paul Harvey on the Smash Hits of Nick Kyrgios
Jan 03, 2023
James Weir on the heroes and villains of reality TV in 'The Hemsworth Effect'
Dec 07, 2022
Jack Heath on the latest book in the deliciously dark and twisted Timothy Blake series 'Headcase'
Nov 29, 2022
Frank Bongiorno on the first full political history of Australia 'Dreamers and Schemers'
Nov 22, 2022
Anita Heiss on 'Growing Up Wiradjuri: Stories from the Wiradjuri Nation'
Nov 20, 2022
Don Watson on a window into Australia's past and present in 'The Passion of Private White'
Nov 19, 2022
Tom Keneally on his 2022 Historical Novel Society's prize-winning story 'Corporal Hitler's Pistol'
Nov 12, 2022
Katrina Nannestad on her prize-winning story for children 'Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief'
Nov 12, 2022
Jennifer Whelan and Deirdre Brandner on their new 'Bear' series of books for young children
Nov 05, 2022
Allen C Jones on a tale of apocalypse and survival in 'Her Death Was Also Water'
Nov 05, 2022
Paddy Manning on the high-stakes life of Lachlan Murdoch in 'The Successor'
Nov 01, 2022
Inga Simpson on her love letter to cricket and music 'Willowman'
Oct 29, 2022
Janet Evanovich on the riotous new Stephanie Plum mystery thriller 'Going Rogue'
Oct 26, 2022
Cressida Cowell on the maps of the imagination in 'Which Way To Anywhere'
Oct 22, 2022
Amelia Mellor on the magic of books and exploring history in 'The Bookseller's Apprentice'
Oct 21, 2022
Mia Swainson on simple ways to live a climate positive lifestyle in ' Happy Planet Living'
Oct 20, 2022
Dominique Roques on sourcing the ingredients for the great fragrances in 'In Search of Perfumes'
Oct 12, 2022
Andy McNab on the true story of the secret mission to catch a Taliban warlord in 'The Hunt'
Oct 12, 2022
Ross Garnaut on securing Australia's zero-carbon future in 'The Superpower Transformation'
Oct 05, 2022
Danielle Clode on a slow-moving Australian icon in 'Koala: A Life in Trees'
Oct 03, 2022
Roger Simpson on getting inside the mind of a forensic psychologist in 'Halifax: Transgression'
Sep 29, 2022
Ruth Ware on isolation and claustrophobia in her latest psychological thriller 'The It Girl'
Sep 26, 2022
Michelle Lee on the challenges and rewards of rowing the world's great oceans in 'Alone'
Sep 20, 2022
Kate Temple on her first solo book for kids 'The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat'
Sep 19, 2022
Geoff Nadin on the Stewart Dawson family fortune won and lost in 'Treasure House'
Sep 18, 2022
Elaine Pearson on a life in pursuit of human rights in 'Chasing Wrongs and Rights'
Sep 09, 2022
Joelle Gergis on the challenge we face in 'Humanity's Moment: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope'
Aug 31, 2022
Zoulfa Katouh on love in the time of war in 'As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow'
Aug 31, 2022
Andy McNab on his latest book for kids 'My Mum Is A Spy'
Aug 31, 2022
Isabel Vincent on sisters who rescued Jewish opera stars from the Third Reich in Overture of Hope
Aug 30, 2022
Michael Veitch on the unsung heroes of the WWII Coastwatchers in 'Australia's Secret Army'
Aug 25, 2022
Dr Ben Bravery on putting the heart back into healthcare in 'The Patient Doctor'
Aug 25, 2022
Nilesh Makwana on 'Terminal 4 An Entrepreneur's Journey From Bicycle to Business Class'
Aug 18, 2022
Kathy Reichs on forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan's 21st thriller 'Cold, Cold Bones'
Aug 16, 2022
Daryl Van Tongeren on how to understand and use the quiet power of an ancient virtue in 'Humble'
Aug 09, 2022
Tori Haschka on a heart-rending story of how food connects and heals in 'A Recipe For Family'
Aug 04, 2022
Sam Vincent on an honest and hilarious story of succession in 'My Father And Other Animals'
Aug 02, 2022
J.P. Pomare on the private investigator haunted by his home town in 'The Wrong Woman'
Aug 01, 2022
Leigh Straw on the true crime story that gripped Australia in the 1920s in 'The Ballroom Murder'
Jul 31, 2022
Sophie Green on a story of friendship and fresh beginnings in 'The Bellbird River Country Choir'
Jul 29, 2022
Brian Freeman on Jason Bourne's biggest threat yet in 'The Bourne Sacrifice'
Jul 19, 2022
Alistair Paton on the curious history of Australia's amateur scientists in 'Of Marsupials and Men'
Jul 13, 2022
Colin Burgess on the astonishing survival story in a Nazi death camp in 'Destination Buchenwald'
Jul 11, 2022
Christine Sykes on the joy of movement and friendship in 'The Tap Cats of the Sunshine Coast'
Jul 11, 2022
Lisa Barr on love, sex, history and the epic struggle to reclaim stolen art in 'Woman On Fire'
Jul 10, 2022
James O'Loghlin on crime, punishment and redemption in 'Criminals'
Jun 28, 2022
Michael Robotham on the third in the Cyrus Haven crime fiction series, 'Lying Beside You'
Jun 27, 2022
Carmel Bird on reading, writing and remembering in her memoir 'Telltale'
Jun 26, 2022
Geraldine Brooks on the grim legacy of American slavery, racism and injustice in 'Horse'
Jun 11, 2022
Sandi Logan on the most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history in 'Betrayed'
Jun 04, 2022
Phil Barker on the rise and fall of Australian magazines in 'Axed! Who Killed Australian Magazines?'
May 29, 2022
Wendy Davis on speaking up in 'Don't Make a Fuss: It's Only the Claremont Serial Killer'
May 28, 2022
Dr John Tickell on 'Your Best Immunity: Build Resistance the ACE Way'
May 22, 2022
Matthew Spencer on his brilliant debut crime thriller 'Black River'
May 21, 2022
Margaret Cunneen SC on a remarkable career in 'The Boxing Butterfly'
May 11, 2022
Caroline Petit on an epic love story across three continents in 'The Natural History of Love'
May 10, 2022
Caroline Beecham on an exceptional World War 2 heroine in 'Esther's Children'
Apr 30, 2022
Sophie Cachia on a life-changing moment in 'And Then There Was Her'
Apr 29, 2022
Victoria Purman on the unsung heroes of World War I in 'The Nurses' War'
Apr 27, 2022
Chloe Hooper on the dark and light of storytelling in 'Bedtime Story'
Apr 25, 2022
Three generations of Silbery women on personal memories and life's lessons in 'Out of the Box'
Apr 24, 2022
Diane Connell on a force to be reckoned with in 'The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird'
Apr 22, 2022
Shelley Burr on the unsolved disappearance that haunts a small farming community in 'WAKE'
Apr 21, 2022
A F Steadman on the magical world of unicorns in 'Skandar and the Unicorn Thief'
Apr 19, 2022
Catherine Deveny on emerging from oppression and finding her tribe in 'True North'
Apr 04, 2022
Jackie Huggins and Ngaire Jarro on a remarkable indigenous serviceman in 'Jack of Hearts QX11594'
Mar 30, 2022
Mark Tedeschi on the double murder case that gripped Australia in 'Missing Presumed Dead'
Mar 30, 2022
Ruth Wilson on the healing power of literature in 'The Jane Austen Remedy'
Mar 29, 2022
Lauren Chater on the secrets locked up in 17th century clothing in 'The Winter Dress'
Mar 27, 2022
Eliza Hull on the trials of disabled parenting in 'We've Got This: Stories By Disabled Parents'
Feb 27, 2022
Rosie Andrews on a dark and disturbing period in English history in 'The Leviathan'
Feb 27, 2022
Jane Caro on the horrors of family violence in 'The Mother'
Feb 27, 2022
Annabel Abbs on the story of Britain's first great cookery author in 'The Language of Food'
Feb 27, 2022
Julie Bennett on the grand passion of opera and the underbelly of ambition in 'The Understudy'
Feb 27, 2022
Megan Albany on an exceptionally ordinary life and death in 'The Very Last List of Vivian Walker'
Feb 12, 2022
Michael Schur on 'How To Be Perfect: The Correct Answer To Every Moral Question'
Feb 12, 2022
Margaret Taft on a remarkable partnership in 'Leo and Mina Fink: For The Greater Good'
Feb 12, 2022
Dr Michael Mosley on eating well, burning fat and managing weight long term in 'The Fast 800 Keto'
Feb 01, 2022
Jillian Cantor on recasting an American classic in 'Beautiful Little Fools'
Jan 30, 2022
Indyana Schneider on the pleasure and the pain of first love in '28 Questions'
Jan 30, 2022
Kerri Maher on the history-making story of Sylvia Beach in 'The Paris Bookseller'
Jan 27, 2022
Michael Trant on creating an authentic Australian story in 'Wild Dogs'
Jan 24, 2022
Tony Wellington on 'Freak Out: How a Musical Revolution Rocked the World in the Sixties'
Jan 04, 2022
Ben Sanders on the hardboiled crime fiction of New York City in 'Exit.45'
Jan 04, 2022
Ann Patchett on what it all means in 'These Precious Days'
Dec 09, 2021
John Hughes on recasting the stories of the ancients in 'Tales From The Greek'
Nov 19, 2021
Jock Serong on the harrowing story of love and adventure on the high seas in 'The Burning Island'
Nov 08, 2021
Christine Manfield on bringing the world of Indian cuisine back home in 'Indian Cooking Class'
Nov 06, 2021
David Hunt on Australia's journey from colony to nationhood in 'Girt Nation'
Nov 01, 2021
Lynne McGranger on a full and joyous life in 'Acting Up: Me Myself and Irene'
Oct 29, 2021
Jaclyn Moriarty on 'The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar From Elsewhere'
Oct 28, 2021
Inga Simpson on the perils of a post-apocalyptic world in 'The Last Woman in the World'
Oct 27, 2021
Peter Fitzsimons on 'The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's Greatest Explorer'
Oct 26, 2021
Christian White on the dangers lurking behind the peaceful facade of suburbia in 'Wild Place'
Oct 25, 2021
Katrina Nannestad on the remarkable true story of the Wolfskinder in 'We Are Wolves'
Oct 25, 2021
Heather Morris on a remarkable story of courage and survival in 'Three Sisters'
Oct 02, 2021
Nicci French on turning the everyday into a nail-biting psychological thriller in 'The Unheard'
Sep 29, 2021
Samantha-Ellen Bound on magical realms in 'Seven Wherewithal Way'
Sep 28, 2021
Damien Cave on the Australian way of dealing with risk in 'Into the Rip'
Sep 26, 2021
Robert Wainwright on an Australian icon in 'Nellie: The Life and Loves of Dame Nellie Melba'
Sep 24, 2021
Karen Foxlee on the healing power of magic and friendship in 'Dragon Skin'
Sep 22, 2021
Delia Falconer on how we are changing our inner world in 'Signs and Wonders'
Sep 11, 2021
Garry Linnell on the serial killer who shocked the world in The Devil's Work
Sep 11, 2021
Lisa Millar on conquering fear and hitting a deadline in 'Daring to Fly'
Aug 31, 2021
Rosalba Jeffreys on bringing the story together for Robert Jeffrey's The Final Cut
Aug 31, 2021
Leigh Straw on Madam Monnier and Perth's notorious Roe Street brothels in The Petticoat Parade
Aug 29, 2021
Professor Ian Lowe on the complexities of the nuclear industry in Australia in Long Half-life.
Aug 27, 2021
Sarah Bailey on the thrill of the cold case in The Housemate
Aug 26, 2021
John M Green on the third book in the Dr Tori Swyft international spy thriller series, Double Deal
Aug 03, 2021
Tim Ayliffe on the rise of the white supremacy movement in The Enemy Within.
Jul 31, 2021
Nikki Gemmell on love, female creativity and finding your voice in Dissolve
Jul 31, 2021
John Doyle on an Australian sporting legend in Blessed: The Breakout Year of Rampaging Roy Slaven
Jul 31, 2021
Tim Richards on the joys of Australian train travel in Heading South
Jul 25, 2021
Lisa Jewell on inventing characters and solving a crime as you write in 'The Night She Disappeared'
Jul 22, 2021
Auntie Di on forgiving the past and discovering her true identity in 'Daughter of the River Country'
Jun 30, 2021
Larissa Behrendt on the mother-daughter trip of a life time in After Story
Jun 30, 2021
Dr Norman Swan takes on the wellness 'bullshit' in So You Think You Know What's Good For You?
Jun 29, 2021
Brigid Lowry on kindness, honesty and nourishing the soul in 'A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself'
Jun 06, 2021
Helen Vines on separating fact from fiction in 'Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers'
Jun 02, 2021
Brian Herd on planning for your ageing parents in Avoiding The Ageing Parent Trap
Jun 01, 2021
David Price on Western Australian frontier justice in 'Dark Tales from the Long River'
May 31, 2021
Sinéad Stubbins on achieving self perfection, and her debut book 'In My Defence I Have No Defence'
May 31, 2021
Clare Moleta on writing her debut novel and bridging the real and imagined in Unsheltered.
May 23, 2021
Kate Holden on the Croppa Creek killing that rocked NSW in 'The Winter Road'
May 04, 2021
Kyle Mewburn on a life in transition in her memoir 'Faking It'
May 03, 2021
Rod Barton on his accidental entry into the world of espionage in 'The Life of a Spy'
May 02, 2021
T W Lawless and Kay Bell on recreating a real Australian character in 'Furey's War'
May 02, 2021
Kathryn Heyman on her memoir, 'Fury', and summoning the power to redraw the roadmap of her life
May 02, 2021
Elfie Shiosaki on Noongar women's stories of resilience in 'Homecoming'
Apr 15, 2021
Rebecca Wilson on the untold story of Ned Kelly's little sister Kate Kelly
Apr 11, 2021
Lisa Genova on why forgetting isn't as bad as you think, and her first non-fiction book 'Remember'
Apr 06, 2021
Madelaine Dickie and Sam Carmody on Australian surf culture in Lines to the Horizon
Mar 31, 2021
Elizabeth Becker on three extraordinary female wartime journalists in 'You Don't Belong Here'
Mar 25, 2021
Debra Oswald on the ethical and legal dilemmas of exploring family violence in The Family Doctor
Mar 15, 2021
Helen Fitzgerald on blue light discos and small town disasters in 'Ash Mountain'
Mar 03, 2021
Tanya Bretherton on the post-WWII Sydney women who killed in 'The Husband Poisoner'
Mar 03, 2021
Susan Johnson on unlikely friendships in 'From Where I Fell'
Feb 28, 2021
Gretel Killeen on the highs and lows of mother-daughter love in My Daughter's Wedding
Feb 28, 2021
'Mistakes come from vulnerability' - Katie McMahon on her salacious debut, 'The Mistake'
Feb 28, 2021
Madeleine Ryan on autism, self love, and her introspective debut 'A Room Called Earth'
Feb 28, 2021
Michael Brissenden on criminal thrills and a lost Sydney in 'Dead Letters'
Feb 07, 2021
Maggie Hamilton on reconnecting with others in 'When We Become Strangers'
Jan 31, 2021
B Michael Radburn on the thunderous new novel in the Taylor Bridges series, 'The Reach'
Jan 12, 2021
Aaron Smith on Australia's cultural and moral divide in 'The Rock'
Dec 07, 2020
Craig Sisterson shares the very best of Southern Cross Crime
Nov 09, 2020
'There was a need to finish what Tilly Dunnage started' - Rosalie Ham on The Dressmaker's Secret
Nov 03, 2020
'We need a different approach': Tim Flannery on solving our climate crisis in 'The Climate Cure'
Nov 02, 2020
'You are your baby's favourite rockstar' - Anita Collins on 'The Music Advantage'
Oct 13, 2020
Alan Carter on returning to Sergeant Nick Chester and the Wakamarina Valley in 'Doom Creek'
Oct 07, 2020
Ronni Kahn on finding her calling in 'A Repurposed Life'
Oct 07, 2020
Heather Morris on the art of listening in 'Stories of Hope'
Sep 30, 2020
Stella Budrikis on the 1907 trial that gripped Perth, 'The Edward Street Baby Farm'
Sep 30, 2020
Ian McGuire unpacks his gritty story of revenge and the past, 'The Abstainer'
Sep 14, 2020
Leon Silver on the true family story of love and survival in his book 'The Miracle Typist'
Sep 13, 2020
Petronella McGovern unpacks her tense psychological thriller 'The Good Teacher'
Sep 03, 2020
Kate Mildenhall talks dystopia, motherhood & the sailing trip of a lifetime in 'The Mother Fault'
Aug 31, 2020
Meg Keneally on confronting (and escaping) the past in her colonial-era novel The Wreck
Aug 31, 2020
S L Lim on desire, art and the power of resistance in 'Revenge: Murder in three parts'
Aug 27, 2020
Andrew Boe on Australia's flawed justice system in 'The Truth Hurts'
Aug 06, 2020
Jess Scully on how a better world is possible in 'Glimpses of Utopia'
Aug 04, 2020
Rose Carlyle on exciting twists and evil twins
Aug 03, 2020
AUGUST BOOK CLUB - A chat with Charlotte McConaghy
Aug 02, 2020
'Beyond the Pale': Adrian Tame on his time at Australia's most notorious paper in 'The Awful Truth'
Jul 31, 2020
Paddy Manning shares the human cost of climate change in 'Body Count'
Jul 31, 2020
Julie Sprigg on the life of a physiotherapist in Ethiopia in 'Small Steps'
Jul 09, 2020
Greg James & Chris Smith on the exciting finale of the 'Kid Normal' series
Jun 10, 2020
'Fear isn't just natural, it's necessary': Eva Holland on the science behind phobias in 'Nerve'
May 31, 2020
Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick on changing Australia's history in 'On a Barbarous Coast'
May 28, 2020
Hayley Katzen on bushfires and belonging in her memoir 'Untethered'
May 17, 2020
Lucy Worsley on a lifetime of loving Jane Austen
May 08, 2020
Jon Doust on the misadventure of a lifetime in 'Return Ticket'
Apr 28, 2020
Fiona Harris & Mike McLeish on tackling schoolyard drama in their parental comedy 'The Drop-Off'
Apr 28, 2020
Shannon Molloy on 'Fourteen', his memoir of growing up gay in Central Queensland
Mar 31, 2020
Lauren Chater on telling the untold story of a classic in 'Gulliver's Wife'
Mar 31, 2020
'Australia saved me': Ayik Chut Deng on life as a Sudanese child soldier in 'The Lost Boy'
Mar 31, 2020
'Are some deceptions necessary?': Suzanne Leal on betrayal and family secrets in 'The Deceptions'
Mar 31, 2020
Pip Williams on missing words and forgotten women in 'The Dictionary of Lost Words'
Mar 30, 2020
Laura Jean McKay on crafting a talking animal apocalypse in 'The Animals in That Country'
Mar 29, 2020
Karina Kilmore on merging journalistic drama with docklands crime in 'Where the Truth Lies'
Mar 23, 2020
'He would wake up screaming': Ariana Neumann on uncovering her father's past in When Time Stopped
Mar 02, 2020
John Kinsella on dialogue, rapacity and living a rural life in his memoir 'Displaced'
Mar 01, 2020
Karen Brooks on unearthing forgotten women in her bewitching historical novel 'The Darkest Shore'
Feb 23, 2020
Sophie Hardcastle on the colours of the sea and reclaiming your body 'Below Deck'
Feb 18, 2020
Tanya Bretherton on the serial murders that gripped Sydney in 'The Killing Streets'
Feb 17, 2020
Emily Clements on sex, self and travel in her memoir 'The Lotus Eaters'
Jan 30, 2020
Anita Abriel on the true story of survival and hope in 'The Light After the War'
Jan 30, 2020
Genevieve Gannon on the real case of an IVF mixup that inspired her family drama 'The Mothers'
Jan 28, 2020
How 25 years in the Victorian Police Force shaped D L Hicks' debut crime novel 'The Devil Inside'
Jan 07, 2020
Emma Viskic took a road trip with Jock Serong, Sulari Gentill and Robert Gott
Dec 19, 2019
‘It’s not beyond us to achieve this’: Peter Singer's plan to eradicate world poverty
Dec 03, 2019
'It wasn't pretty': Benjamin Gilmour on his darkest month working as a paramedic in Sydney
Nov 28, 2019
'Journalists have license to put their nose where it's not wanted': Chris Hammer on ‘Silver’
Nov 21, 2019
'It's a sunny place for shady people': Michael Connelly on returning to LA in 'The Night Fire'
Nov 12, 2019
Heather Rose on sand, sunburn and building a bridge to Bruny
Nov 06, 2019
'Dude, it was like an exorcism': Holden Sheppard on writing his YA LGBTQI+ novel Invisible Boys
Oct 28, 2019
'I will always be sad when I read those chapters': Mary Moody on cancer, compost and cracking on
Oct 21, 2019
Katherine Johnson on the hidden history of 19th century human zoos
Oct 15, 2019
Heather Morris on the woman who survived Auschwitz and a Siberian Gulag
Oct 02, 2019
Jamil Jivani on why young men are being turned to violence, and what we can do to stop it
Sep 19, 2019
'We had no idea what life was going to be': Bernadette Agius on raising a son with Down syndrome
Sep 16, 2019
Ondine Sherman on Alaskan hunters, bad grammar and a bustling backyard zoo
Sep 09, 2019
Philippa Gregory: 'It’s extraordinary how little ordinary women have been recorded in history.'
Sep 03, 2019
Paullina Simons: 'This isn't a romance. It's a love story.'
Aug 27, 2019
'This man was broken': Tony Buti on Australia's only successful Stolen Generations claimant
Aug 12, 2019
Melbourne co-authors Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus have never had an argument
Jul 30, 2019
James Dunk on illness, chaos and delusion in Australia's early colonies
Jul 02, 2019
The death-defying adventures of Katherine Rundell
Jul 01, 2019
'We prefer to forget': Armando Lucas Correa on the doomed voyage of the S.S. St. Louis
Jun 25, 2019
Alli Sinclair on how scaling mountains turned her into a storyteller
Jun 20, 2019
Craig Ensor's literary love story set in an Australia ravaged by climate change
Jun 10, 2019
Alex Landragin didn’t write the most daring debut novel in decades – he stole it
Jun 03, 2019
How Aboriginal peoples brought Australian animals to the attention of the world
May 31, 2019
‘Majestic, murky, malevolent and magnificent’: Irishman James Delargy on the outback
May 27, 2019
Finn Brunton on what you need to know about cryptocurrency
May 05, 2019
Mary-Rose MacColl on a royal derailed and Diana's undoing
Apr 30, 2019
Markus Zusak: 'We are all made of stories'
Apr 16, 2019
Felicity McLean on Australian Gothic, missing children and Jatz Crackers
Apr 15, 2019
Susan Hurley on her thriller inspired by a botched medical trial
Apr 10, 2019
Matt Howard's accidental life in books
Apr 08, 2019
Stephen Davis on how we can win the War on Truth
Apr 04, 2019
Karen Brooks on how chocolate 'changed the complexion of society'
Mar 28, 2019
Jaclyn Moriarty: 'I think I'm a bit hopeless at life'
Mar 26, 2019
How photography at the Australian Museum aided Darwin's theories
Mar 22, 2019
Would Jack Heath mind being eaten?
Mar 22, 2019
Simon Cleary on the artistry of tattoos and Australia's longest war
Mar 19, 2019
Peggy Frew on the novel she began as a teenager
Mar 12, 2019
Jeremy N Smith on befriending a powerful hacker called Alien
Feb 18, 2019
Jennifer Spence on slipping back into your own past
Feb 13, 2019
Jacqueline Kent on falling in love with the man behind Wake in Fright
Feb 07, 2019
Yotam Ottolenghi on why writing Simple was ‘excruciatingly difficult’
Feb 03, 2019
Dave Warner & Alan Carter on why Aussie & NZ crime fiction is better than Scandi noir
Jan 13, 2019
Pip Drysdale on using military strategy during breakups
Jan 07, 2019
John Newton on Australia's 'mongrel cuisine'
Dec 10, 2018
Frauke Bolten-Boshammer on pink diamonds and red dust
Nov 26, 2018
Paul Ham on the grisly death of Christendom’s most defiant sect
Nov 22, 2018
Lee Child on Jack Reacher's fork in the road
Nov 20, 2018
Karen Foxlee on the world-broadening magic of encyclopedias
Nov 19, 2018
Chloe Hooper on the Black Saturday bushfires: ‘It was like lighting a bomb’
Nov 15, 2018
Minette Walters on the silver lining of the Black Death
Nov 14, 2018
The deadly sins of Mikey Robins
Nov 01, 2018
Three young fans quiz YA author Lynette Noni
Oct 29, 2018
Stephanie Alexander on how to attack a pomegranate
Oct 22, 2018
Ben Quilty on the book that should be in every school, lounge room and library
Oct 22, 2018
Laura Tingle on political chaos and YA fiction
Oct 07, 2018
John Purcell: 'I always thought books were deadly, deadly boring'
Oct 04, 2018
Holly Throsby on why a book tour trumps a music tour
Oct 01, 2018
Wanda Wiltshire on creating the perfect love triangle
Sep 03, 2018
Meg Gatland-Veness: 'It all started when a kid died'
Aug 23, 2018
Gus & Steve Worland on tackling men's mental health with dad jokes
Aug 13, 2018
Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull, is furious about the Australian legal system (and chickpeas)
Aug 01, 2018
Kate Rossmanith on investigating remorse, bias in the legal system and 'animating the soup'
Jul 30, 2018
Chris Hammer on Scrublands, reporting from Texas and Gaza, and tough love from Peter Temple
Jul 25, 2018
Australia has pokies the way America has guns: Drew Rooke's investigation into the gambling industry
Jul 10, 2018
Crime on Display: Sarah Bailey on a movie set murder and her divisive detective, Gemma Woodstock
Jun 24, 2018
Sulari Gentill on the Pyjama Girl Murder, Australia's Fascist New Guard, and stories in the stars
Jun 22, 2018