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Last ever Backstory, with Toni Jordan&Phillipa McGuinness from 2022-03-30T13:00
Presenter Mel Cranenburgh winds up 4 years of presenting Backstory today, and joining her are two highly accomplished authors. First, Phillipa (Pip) McGuinness discusses her book 'Skin Deep', wh...
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Robert Lukins from 2022-03-16T13:00
'Loveland' follows the story of May, who travels from Australia to Loveland, Nebraska to claim a house on a poisoned lake as a part of her grandmother's will. As she seeks to escape her controll...
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Natasha Sholl from 2022-03-09T13:00
'Found, Wanting' is author Natasha Sholl's memoir about attempting to rebuild her life in the aftermath of her partner Rob's sudden death at the age of 27 years old and deal with cultural assump...
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Melissa Manning from 2022-03-02T13:00
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for fiction, 'Smokehouse' is a collection of interlinked short stories all set in a small-town community in Southern Tasmania. Author Melissa Man...
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Vanessa Len from 2022-02-09T13:00
Vanessa Len chats to Mel about her debut novel ‘Only A Monster’, a gripping young adult fantasy that is the first of a trilogy. It follows the tumultuous journey of a half-human, half-monster he...
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Jessica Au from 2022-02-02T13:00
‘Cold Enough For Snow’ is Jessica Au’s tightly crafted, award-winning second novel that wrestles with the tension that comes with words unspoken. As mother and daughter travel through Japan toge...
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Diana Reid from 2021-11-24T13:00
Australian author Diana Reid delves into her debut novel ‘Love & Virtue’. The novel introduces Michaela and Eve, two fellow college students in Sydney who come to know the privilege, power a...
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Hannah Kent from 2021-11-17T13:00
Award-winning writer of ‘Burial Rites' and 'The Good People’, Hannah Kent, gives thoughtful insight into her latest novel, ‘Devotion’. Her lush descriptions of nature, religion, land, ghosts and...
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Delia Falconer from 2021-11-10T13:00
Walkley Award-winning author Delia Falconer chats about her fourth book, ‘Signs and Wonders, Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss’. Comprising thirteen essays, it delves deeply into the hum...
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Emily Bitto from 2021-11-03T13:00
Stella Award-winning novelist, Emily Bitto delves into her new novel ‘Wild Abandon’. It follows Will, as he journeys to America in an attempt to mend his broken heart and hopefully find some pea...
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Michelle de Kretser from 2021-10-27T13:00
In her latest book, two-time Miles Franklin award winner, Michelle de Kretser explores the ‘Scary Monsters’ of racism and misogyny. It follows two distinct novellas based in different times and ...
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In Conversation with Tony Birch from 2021-10-20T13:00
Award-winning author of nine books; poet, essayist, historian and activist, Tony Birch joins Mel for a special ‘In Conversation’ event about his latest book, ‘Dark as Last Night’. It is a collec...
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Krissy Kneen from 2021-10-13T13:00
In her seventh book, ‘The Three Burials of Lottie Kneen’, Krissy Kneen introduces her late grandmother and family matriarch, Lotty Kneen. Her passing sparked Krissy’s quest to uncover more about...
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Jacquie Byron from 2021-10-06T13:00
In Jacquie Byron’s debut novel ‘Happy Hour’, we peer through the lens of 65-year old, newly-widowed Franny as she alternately revels in artistry and aloneness. Despite her escapist tendencies, h...
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Miles Allinson from 2021-09-29T13:00
Miles Allinson’s second novel, ‘In Moonland’ explores three timelines that draw on seeking answers to their past and grappling with a turbulent future. It's the follow-up to his highly acclaimed...
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Mark Brandi from 2021-08-25T13:00
Award-winning author Mark Brandi explores his new psychological thriller, ‘The Others’. Tensions rise in isolated rural Tasmania, as 11-year old Jacob’s curiosity and desire to discover what lie...
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Amani Haydar from 2021-08-18T13:00
Artist, lawyer and women’s health and safety activist, Amani Haydar, gives a confronting and powerful insight into her memoir, ‘The Mother Wound’. After losing her mother and grandmother, she di...
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Allee Richards from 2021-08-11T13:00
Introducing her debut novel, 'Small Joys of Real Life' Allee Richards talks us through the nuts and bolts of her writing. Set amongst pre-pandemic Melbourne, the novel explores how life can take...
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Michael Mohammed Ahmad from 2021-08-04T13:00
Award-winning novelist Michael Muhammad Ahmed provides insight into how he went about writing his new novel, ‘The Other Half of You’. Caught between his desire to reject oppressive traditions an...
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Laura Elizabeth Woollett from 2021-07-28T13:00
In her third and latest novel ‘The Newcomer’, Laura Elizabeth Woollett intertwines fiction and reality. Deriving elements from a real murder in 2002, she brings us into a fictional Fairfolk isla...
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Larissa Behrendt from 2021-07-14T13:00
Award-winning author Larissa Behrendt takes a deep dive into her new novel, After Story. It follows a mother and daughter as they grapple with grief and loss, whi...
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Sarah Krasnostein from 2021-06-30T13:00
Award-winning author of ‘The Trauma Cleaner’, Sarah Krasnostein, weaves us through her new book ‘The Believer’. From a death doula to a ghost hunter, to a woman facing death and another woman re...
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Rick Morton from 2021-06-16T13:00
Journalist Rick Morton combines memoir with journalism in ‘My Year of Living Vulnerably: A Rediscovery of Love’. Whilst reflecting on childhood trauma and its resounding impact into adulthood, t...
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Rebecca Starford from 2021-06-09T13:00
Author and editor Rebecca Starford walks us through the The Imitator, her new historical novel which weaves through pre, mid and post-war periods, through the len...
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Emma Batchelor from 2021-06-02T13:00
Now That I See You has won the 2021 Australian / Vogel Literary Award. Listen as the woman behind the words, Emma Batchelor, unravels this part-truth, part-fictio...
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Susan Johnson&Oliver Reeson from 2021-05-05T13:30
Award winning author and journalist Susan Johnson goes into her epistolary novel ‘From Where I Fell’, which follows two women who find solace in one another after an accidental email unites them...
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Madeleine Ryan from 2021-04-28T13:30
Australian writer, director and actor, Madeleine Ryan, chats about her debut novel ‘A Room Called Earth’. Taking the reader on a journey through the mind of a woman in the space of one evening, ...
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Anwen Crawford from 2021-04-21T13:00
Writer and music and cultural critic Anwen Crawford talks about her new book ‘No Document’. The book-length essay weaves together narratives that explore grief, art and activism with themes of w...
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Claire Thomas&Fiona McGregor from 2021-04-14T14:00
Claire Thomas delves into her latest novel The Performance, following three women whose li...
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Elizabeth Flux on her piece in Meanjin from 2021-04-07T12:00
Elizabeth Flux is Editor At Large for the Melbourne City of Literature Office and an award-winning author whose fiction and non-fiction has been widely published. In this long-form interview, sh...
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Zoya Patel on the Stella Prize Shortlist for 2021 from 2021-03-31T13:30
Zoya Patel is an award-winning author, editor, founder of a feminist literary organisation and Chair of the 2021 Stella Prize judging panel. Discussing emerging themes in the stories shortlisted...
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Alison Croggon from 2021-03-24T13:30
Award-winning novelist, poet, playwright, editor and critic Alison Croggon delves into her new book Listen
Loraine Peck&Christy Collins from 2021-03-17T13:00
Lorraine Peck talks about her debut novel, The Second Son
Martin McKenzie-Murray from 2021-03-11T20:50:56
Martin McKenzie-Murray has worked as a teacher, Age columnist, and adviser to the chief commissioner of Victoria Police. But it’s his work as a scriptwriter that inspired his debut work of ficti...
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Kavita Bedford from 2021-03-04T18:37:41
Kavita Bedford, an Australian-Indian writer with a background in journalism, anthropology and literature, talks about her novel, Friends and Dark Places, a novel ...
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Adam Thompson from 2021-02-17T17:31:37
Adam Thompson, an emerging Aboriginal (pakana) writer from Tasmania, joins Mel for a longform interview about <...
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Craig Munro&Kate Torney from 2021-02-13T12:50:09
Craig Munro discusses his new book, Literary Lion Tamers: Book Editors Who Made Publishing History; and Kate Torney, Chief Executive Officer of the State Library ...
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Helen Garner from 2020-12-15T15:59:56
In this long-form interview, Helen Garner talks about her recently released book, Listen
Ewa Ramsey from 2020-11-30T16:06:06
Ewa Ramsey is an emerging writer and her debut novel, Listen
Maria Tumarkin&Rochelle Smith from 2020-11-30T16:05:09
Rochelle Smith, director of the Word for Word Non-Fiction Festival, talks about this year’s program Listen
Sofie Laguna&Word Travels’ Story Week from 2020-11-09T11:20:14
Miles Franklin Award-winning novelist Sofie Laguna talks about her new novel Listen
Jane Harper from 2020-11-02T16:56:14
Jane Harper, award-winning author of The Dry, has written a new novel, Listen
Robert Dessaix&Feminist Writers Festival from 2020-10-17T17:11:36
Author Robert Dessaix chats about his latest book, The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well, a reflective journey across the landscape of growing older and the i...
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Tegan Bennett Daylight&Evelyn Araluen from 2020-10-14T20:04:40
Tegan Bennett Daylight discusses her new book, Listen
Yarra Plenty Regional Library’s Booklovers Festival from 2020-10-12T17:52:27
Yarra Plenty Regional Library librarian Patrick Jovaras talks about coordinating this year’s YPRL Booklovers Festiv...
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Kate Mildenhall&Lia Hills from 2020-09-17T18:22:56
Author Kate Mildenhall talks about her latest novel, Listen
Jack Serong&Laura Elizabeth Woollett from 2020-09-09T16:58:51
Author Jock Serong talks about his latest novel, The Burning Island Listen
Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Kaya Ortiz Lattimore&Adalya Nash Hussein from 2020-08-20T18:38:58
Editor, Michael Mohammed Ahmad and contributor, Kaya Ortiz Lattimore, discuss Listen
Victoria Hannan&Jess Hill from 2020-08-12T13:30
Victoria Hannan talks about her debut novel Kokomo, a story of e...
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Robbie Arnott&Elizabeth Flux from 2020-08-07T12:30
Robbie Arnott joins Backstory to discuss his second novel, The Rain Heron...
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Kate Grenville&Evelyn Araluen Corr from 2020-07-08T14:30
Author Kate Grenville talks about her latest book, A Room Made of Leaves, a work of historical fiction that questions how and by whom our histories get constructe...
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K.M. Kruimink&Caro Llewellyn from 2020-07-01T17:32:34
Author K.M. Kruimink talks about winning the Vogel Award for her debut novel, Listen
Chris Flynn&Sarah Walker from 2020-06-24T16:33:34
Novelist Chris Flynn talks about his new novel Mammoth, which is narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth; and Sarah Walker speaks about her essay on the los...
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James Bradley&Sarah Schmidt from 2020-05-28T17:54:39
Author James Bradley talks about his new novel Ghost Stories, and librarian and author ...
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Laura Jean McKay&Evelyn Araluen&Jonathan Dunk from 2020-05-21T08:23:06
Editors Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk discuss the upcoming issue of Overland literary j...
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Pip Williams&Matilda Dixon-Smith from 2020-05-13T13:30
Author Pip Williams chats about her new novel ‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’; a...
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Alice Williams&Hannie Rayson from 2020-05-06T13:30
Author Alice Williams chats about her self-help memoir 'Bad Yogi'; and playwright Hannie Rayson talks about bei...
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Ronnie Scott&Anna Spargo-Ryan from 2020-04-23T15:21:21
Ronnie Scott talks about his new novel The Adversary, and Anna Spargo-Ryan discusses what led to the publication of her essay A Conspiracy of Witches, out now in the latest issue of Meanjin. ‘C...
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Sophie Hardcastle&Jane Rawson from 2020-04-16T11:52:03
Sophie Hardcastle talks about her novel Below The Deck, and writer Jane Rawson from Read Tasmania talks about the Listen
Backstory - 8 April 2020 from 2020-04-09T15:36:22
Mel catches up with Anna Blackie, author of How t...
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Thuy On&Wayne Marshall from 2020-04-02T15:29:14
Literary critic turned poet Thuy On talks about her debut, Turbulence, a collection of poetry that explores loss, separation, renewal; and writer Wayne Marshall t...
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Liam Pieper from 2020-03-25T17:12:40
Author and journalist Liam Pieper chats about his latest book, Sweetness and Light. Set in India, Liam says he wanted to tell a modern, subversive story about a v...
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Backstory - 11 March 2020 from 2020-03-11T12:46:32
Backstory host Mel Cranenburgh and author Donna Ward share an extended chat about Donna's memoir, She I Dare Not Name: A spinster's meditations on life, 'a compe...
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Backstory - 4 March 2020 from 2020-03-04T17:53:55
Mel Cranenburgh is joined by Mandy Beaumont, author of Wild, Fearless Chests (published by Hatchette), 'a timely debut short story...
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Backstory - 26 February 2020 from 2020-02-26T17:40:26
Mel catches up with J.P. Pomare, author of In The Clearing, a taut and unpredictable thriller, out now through Listen
Backstory - 19 February 2020 from 2020-02-19T16:51:02
Mel talks to author Laura McPhee-Browne about her debut book, Cherry Beac...
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Backstory - 12 February 2020 from 2020-02-12T15:13:49
Host Mel Cranenburgh returns for 2020 and her first guest is Ursula Dubosarsky, children’s author and recently annointed 2020–21 Australian Children’s Laureate.
Mel is then joined by Kamil...
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Backstory - 4 December 2019 from 2019-12-05T17:16:35
Mel Cranenburgh and Beth AQ team up for this special Backstory/Glasshouse extravaganza marking the final show for each program in 2019. They are joined by author ...
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Backstory - 27 November 2019 from 2019-11-27T17:28:44
Helen Garner has a well established reputation as one of Australia’s best writers. A novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, Helen’s work spans fiction, non-fiction and report...
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Backstory - 13 November 2019 from 2019-11-13T17:43:17
Jane Sullivan, author of Storytime, joins Mel Cranenburgh to discuss her latest book where she takes readers from Wonderland to Narnia; is enchanted by Winnie-the...
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Backstory - 6 November 2019 from 2019-11-06T17:47:04
Mel is joined by Curtis Sittenfeld, the acclaimed New York based author of Eligible, Sisterland and American Wife. Her latest pub...
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Backstory - 30 October 2019 from 2019-10-30T15:51
Word for Word is Australia’s only non-fiction writing festival. It’s a unique annual literary event showcasing non-fiction writing in all its many facets and forms with world-renowned writers, d...
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Backstory - 23 October 2019 from 2019-10-23T16:59:45
Acclaimed author Elliot Pearlman joins Mel Cranenburgh to discuss his latest novel, Maybe The Horse Will Talk, a searing but darkly funny look at the vicissitudes...
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Backstory - 16 October 2019 from 2019-10-16T17:46:40
Author, editor and publisher, Hilary McPhee, joins Mel Cranenburgh to discuss her new memoir Other People’s Houses. Fleeing the aftermath of a failed marriage, Hi...
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Backstory - 9 October 2019 from 2019-10-09T16:08:43
Mel Cranenburgh chats to author Anna Krien. Anna's latest release, Act of Grace, is a meditation on inheritance: the damage that one generation passes on to the n...
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Backstory - 2 October 2019 from 2019-10-02T18:10:02
Francesca Rendle-Short, Michele Lee and Rajith Savanadasa join Mel Cranenburgh to talk about The Near and The Far, Volume II: more stor...
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Backstory - 11 September 2019 from 2019-09-11T12:00
Josephine Rowe’s, Here Until August, is a selection of superbly crafted stories follow the fates of characters who, by choice or by force, are travelling beyond t...
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Backstory - 4 September 2019 from 2019-09-04T12:00
Meg Mundell is a New Zealand-born writer and academic based in Melbourne. Her first novel, Black Glass, was shortlisted for two Aurealis Awards, the Barbara Jeffe...
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Backstory - 28 August 2019 from 2019-08-28T12:00
Nina Kenwood’s Young Adult novel, It Sounded Better in my Head, has been described by The Age as ‘a sweet, funny and relatable account of the dramas of those grap...
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Backstory - 7 August 2019 from 2019-08-07T12:00
Angela Savage discusses her novel, Mother Of Pearl, which explores the ethical minefield of international surrogacy through the stories of three women.
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Backstory - 31 July 2019 from 2019-07-31T12:00
2019’s Miles Franklin award winner, Melissa Lucashenko, joins Mel on the line to talk about her novel, Too Much Lip.
R.W.R. McDonald then drops into the s...
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Backstory - 24 July 2019 from 2019-07-24T12:00
Mel chats with Alice Bishop, author of A Constant Hum, a moving collection of vignettes that grapples with the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfires. As one c...
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Backstory - 10 July 2019 from 2019-07-10T12:00
Writer Amra Pajalic tells Mel Cranenburgh about her new book, Things Nobody Knows But Me, a memoir about being parented by mother with bi-polar disorder who is fr...
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Backstory - 26 June 2019 from 2019-06-26T12:00
In this episode of Backstory, Nicola Redhouse joins host, Mel Cranenburgh, to talk about Nicola’s latest release Unlike The Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind, a m...
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Backstory - 19 June 2019 from 2019-06-19T12:00
In this episode, author Mark Brandi joins Mel Cranenburgh to talk about his new novel, The Rip, described as'an urban crime novel ...
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Backstory - 12 June 2019 from 2019-06-12T12:00
In this episode, Bren MacDibble, author of the award-winning How To Bee, joins host Mel Cranenburgh to talk her new book, The Dog Runne...
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Backstory - 5 June 2019 from 2019-06-05T12:00
On this episode, Fiona McGregor, author of A Novel Idea joins host Mel Cranenburgh to chat about what life is really like when a writer sits down to stare down th...
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Backstory - 22 May 2019 from 2019-05-22T13:00
In this episode of Backstory, host Mel Cranenburgh is joined by author Wayne Macauley, whose latest book Simpson Returns. 'A concise satire of Australian platitud...
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Backstory — 15 May 2019 from 2019-05-15T13:00
In this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh talks to 2019 Nature Writing Prize co-winner Jenny Sinclair about her book An Orchard For My Father. Jenny’s previous non-fi...
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Backstory - 8 May 2019 from 2019-05-08T12:00
On this episode of Backstory, Mel Cranenburgh chats to writer Melanie Cheng about her debut novel, Room for a Stranger Melanie is best known for her award winning...
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Backstory - 1 May 2019 from 2019-05-01T12:00
On this episode of Backstory, host Mel Cranenburgh chats about two new novels: one from Andrea Goldsmith titledInvented Lives and another from the one and only Me...
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Backstory - 10 April 2019 from 2019-04-10T12:00
Mel Cranenburgh is joined by two special guests. Graeme Simsion talks about his new novelThe Rosie Result- the final in the widely acclaimed Rosie trilogy.
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Backstory - 3 April 2019 from 2019-04-03T13:00
Host Mel Cranenburgh catches up with novelist Kate Richards about her debut novelFusionand writer/critic Mel Campbell reviews Annaleese Jochem's novelListen
Backstory - 27 March 2019 from 2019-03-27T13:00
In this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh is joined by author Carrie Tiffany to talk about her latest novel, Exploded View. Spare, poetic and intensely visual, Listen
Backstory - 20 March 2019 from 2019-03-20T13:00
Editor Louise Swinn and contributors Amy Gray and Monica Dux join Mel Cranenburgh to tell us about their powerful new collection of writing, Choice Words. Includi...
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Backstory - 6 March 2019 from 2019-03-06T13:00
On this episode of Backstory, CEO of Readings Mark Rubbo drops in to speak to Mel Cranenburgh about the 50th anniversary of the flagship Carlton store.
Plus, scholar and writer Julienne va...
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Backstory - 27 February 2019 from 2019-02-27T13:00
On this episode of Backstory, host Mel Cranenburgh chats to Danish author Mads Peder Nordbo talks about his arctic crime thrillerThe Girl Without Skin.
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Backstory - 20 February 2019 from 2019-02-20T13:00
Sonia Orchard joins host Mel Cranenburgh to tell us about her new novel,Into the Fire, out now through Affirm Press. Into the Fire...
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Backstory - 13 February 2019 from 2019-02-13T13:00
This week on Backstory, host Mel Cranenburgh talks to author, Emily Brewen, about her latest novel, Small Blessings, a poignant an...
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Backstory - 6 February 2019 from 2019-02-06T13:00
In this episode of Backstory, Melissa Cranenburgh is joined by Elise Valmorbida, the author of the novels Matilde Waltzing, Listen
Backstory - 21 November 2018 from 2018-11-21T13:00
On this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh talks to Markus Zusak, the author of six books, including the international bestseller, The Book Thief, which spent more tha...
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Backstory - 14 November 2018 from 2018-11-14T13:00
Mel Cranenburgh returns to Backstory and catches up with award winning author Toni Jordan to talk about her latest book The Fragments, ...
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Backstory - 7 November 2018 from 2018-11-07T13:00
In this episode of Backstory, while Mel takes a short break, the lovely Mia Timpano takes the reins to interview some heroes of local independent magazine publishing. Kimberley Thomson (co-found...
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Backstory - 31 October 2018 from 2018-10-31T13:00
On Backstory this week, Mel Cranenburgh is joined by author, Moreno Giovannoni, whose book The Fireflies of Autumn:And Other Tales of San Ginese explores tales of...
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Backstory - 24 October 2018 from 2018-10-24T13:00
On this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh is joined by celebrated author, Rosalie Ham, whose book The Dressmaker was turned into a successful, international film. Her...
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Backstory - 17 October 2018 from 2018-10-17T13:00
In this episode, Mel Cranenburgh is joined by singer, songwriter and novelist, Holly Crosby, to talk about her new novel Cedar Valley, a follow up to her bestsell...
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Backstory - 10 October 2018 from 2018-10-10T13:00
On this episode, Mel Cranenburgh discusses with Krissy Kneen her latest book, Wintering, a supernatural thriller set in a remote community in Tasmania. Krissy Kne...
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Backstory - 3 October 2018 from 2018-10-03T12:00
This week, Mel Cranenburgh spends some time, metaphorically, in New York, New York.
Mel speaks to Alice Nelson about her novel The Children's House, which h...
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Backstory - 26 September 2018 from 2018-09-26T12:00
This week, author, screenwriter and biologist, Margeret Morgan joins Mel Cranenbugh to discuss The Second Cure, a provocative debut novel about control, courage and belief with a decidedly scien...
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Backstory - 19 September 2018 from 2018-09-19T12:00
In this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh is joined by new Australian writer, Katherine Collette, author of The Helpline, a sharp, witty, big-hearted comedy about peo...
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Backstory - 12 September 2018 from 2018-09-12T12:00
This week, Melissa Cranenburgh speaks to Stuart Kells about his new book, Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature, a new take on the e...
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Backstory - 5 September 2018 from 2018-09-05T12:00
In this edition of Backstory, host Melissa Cranenburgh is joined by Majok Tulba, author of When Elephants Fight, a haunting coming of age young adult fiction abou...
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Backstory - 29 August 2018 from 2018-08-29T12:00
On this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh is joined by Brooklyn based author Maria Dahvana Headley who was in town for the Melbourne Writer's Festival. They talk about Headley's most recent book
Backstory - 15 August 2018 from 2018-08-15T12:00
On this episode of Backstory, Mel Cranenburgh is joined by Sally Piper, author of The Geography of Friendship, a story about fractured relationships, hiking and t...
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Backstory - 8 August 2018 from 2018-08-08T12:00
In this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh is joined by Gerard Elson, bookseller at Readings St Kilda, and the 2015 recipient of the ABA Penguin Random House Young Bookseller of the Year award to dis...
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Backstory - 1 August 2018 from 2018-08-01T12:00
On this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh is joined by Angela Myer, publisher at Echo Press, to talk about Angela's debut novel, A Superior Spectre.
Ginny Maxwe...
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Backstory - 25 July 2018 from 2018-07-25T12:00
In this episode of Backstory, Mel Cranenburgh talks to James Christina about Antidote to a Curse, his debut novel. She is then joined by Robbie Arnott to discuss ...
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Backstory - 18 July 2018 from 2018-07-18T12:00
Enza Gandolfo joins Backstory with Melissa Cranenburgh this week to talk about her second novel The Bridge. Drawing on the true ev...
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Backstory - 11 July 2018 from 2018-07-11T12:00
This week, Mel Cranenburgh talks all things crime writing with Christian White whose debut thriller, The Nowhere Child, is a "combustible tale of trauma, cult, co...
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Backstory - 4 July 2018 from 2018-07-04T12:00
Get literary on Backstory this week as Jenny Ackland swings by to chat about her new book Little Gods: a novel about the loss of i...
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Backstory - 27 June 2018 from 2018-06-27T12:00
On this episode of Backstory, Mel Cranenburgh speaks to writer and cultural historian, Maria Tumarkin about her extraordinary new book, Axiomatic, described by Ro...
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Backstory - 20 June 2018 from 2018-06-20T12:00
On this edition of Backstory, host Mel Cranenburgh talks to Young Adult fiction writer, Clare Strahan, author of The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge as well ...
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Backstory - 13 June 2018 from 2018-06-13T12:00
In this episode, Mel Cranenburgh is joined on the line by author Intan Paramaditha whose short story collection Apple and Knife was recently translated from Indon...
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Backstory - 6 June 2018 from 2018-06-06T12:00
In this episode of Backstory, Mel Cranenburgh talks to Gideon Haigh about his latest book A Scandal in Bohemia: The Life and Death of Mollie Dean and Lachlan Cart...
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Backstory - 30 May 2018 from 2018-05-30T12:00
In this episode of Backstory, Melissa Cranenburgh talks to publisher Phillipa McGuinness about her recently released book The Year Everything Changed: 2001, a dee...
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Backstory - 23 May 2018 from 2018-05-23T12:00
In this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh chats to Sophie Black, Head of Publications at the Wheeler Centre, about their new funding initiative for aspiring writers. The Next Chapter is an unprecede...
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