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Susan Paterson and Madelaine Lucas from 2023-12-12T20:58:00.880829

‘Where Light Meets Water’ is a big historical read. Susan Paterson has written about a sailor and the sea and the artistic talent that he shares with the woman who fights for him even though her ow...

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Sofie Laguna and David Metzenthen from 2023-12-12T20:58:00.871347

'The Glow'is a wonderfully spooky children's story (also for adults) by Sofie Laguna.'The Secret History of the Rainbow Trout Hotel'is a quirky novel about discovery where the protagonist, Andy Lig...

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Megan Rogers and Armando Lucas Correa from 2023-12-12T20:58:00.867706

'The Heart is a Star'by Megan Rogers delves into a mother-daughter relationship against a backdrop of the untmed wilds of Tasmania's west coast.Three generations of women face the challenges of soc...

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Dennis Altman and Dennis Glover from 2023-12-12T20:58:00.854731

‘Death in the Sauna’ by Dennis Altman is a murder mystery with an array of interesting characters who may all be suspects in this enjoyable story of politics, sexuality and secret lives. ‘Thaw’ is...

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Allee Richards and Eva Collins from 2023-12-12T20:58:00.840948

Allee Richards has written ‘A Light in the Dark’, a story of ambition, envy, and disappointment. The title can refer to the theatre world or hopefully the way forward from secrets and grief.The mig...

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Emily Spurr and Ross McMullin from 2023-12-12T20:58:00.798183

Emily Spurr has researched brains, parasites, chat bots, psychological health and perimenopause and given us this humorous fictional relationship in ‘Beatrix and Fred’.The lives or three servicemen...

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Justine Sless and Dias Novita Wuri from 2023-12-12T20:58:00.788327

At the heart of many of Justine Sless’s short stories is connection, but little real contact between people. In ‘Measured, Silk and other stories’ there is keen observation by characters but it is...

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Kate Grenville speaks with Lisa Moule from 2023-12-12T20:58:00.785215

Kate Grenville speaks about Restless Dolly Mauder. A compelling novel about her grandmother.

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Meredith Temple-Smith and Lucy Treloar from 2023-12-12T20:58:00.776918

Meredith Temple-Smith has written about the harshness and highlights of a scientific field trip and how it may have shaped her life in ‘From Patagonia to Professor’.Towns run Deep. People run deep....

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Christos Tsiolkas and Erina Reddan from 2023-11-30T11:30

Two middle aged men, Perry and Ivan, find love and respect having experienced loss, betrayal and the need to meet the assumptions and expectations of their respective cultural backgrounds and socia...

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Tara Calaby and Robyn Annear from 2023-11-23T11:30

Tara Calaby has set her historical fiction novel ‘House of Longing’ in the Kew mental asylum. A street corner gives a location point and can become a meeting place. In R...

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Allen C Jones and Time Loveday from 2023-11-16T11:30

'Big Weird Lonely Hearts'is an anthology of delightfully absurd short stories where Allen C Jones challenges readers to challenge perceptions and expectations.Tim Loveday is a writer and he chats a...

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Colin Batrouney and J P Pomare from 2023-10-26T11:30

Colin Batrouney has creatively crafted six books and authors for a literary prize ‘The Bannerman Shortlist’, as well as a mystery involving an enduring friendship of very different characters. A b...

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Tom Valente and Geoff Rollsand and Natasha Lester from 2023-10-19T11:30

Tom Valente and Geoff Rolls talk about their written and artistic contributions to'Synergy'- an anthology of works produced by the Bayside University of the Third Age. Natasha Lester’s historical ...

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Laura Jean MacKay and Darren Mort from 2023-10-12T11:30

Short stories are like a bag of mixed lollies there’s going to be something that sparks interest. Laura Jean McKay has given us just that with ‘Gunflower’, especially as they are grouped into Birt...

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Louisa Bennet and Hugh McGinlay from 2023-09-28T11:30

Detectives with a difference, especially as one has a particularly good sense of smell, and that’s Monty the golden retriever in Louisa Bennett’s crime novel ‘The Nosy Detectives’. Murder and Melbo...

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Jessica Dettman and Jessica Zhan Mei Yu from 2023-09-21T11:30

Willa watches the dramatization of Shakespeare’s Much To Do About Nothing and wants the same stirring in her heart and loins. She finds zing in the romance e-books she publishes but not in her real...

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Anna Kate Blair and Scott Bennett from 2023-09-14T11:30

Anna Kate Blair writes insightfully and amusingly while exploring the issues of social conformity, desire, sexuality and a career in art through her debut novel, ‘The Modern’.The scarred and psych...

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Rachel Matthews from 2023-08-31T11:30

Our lives, influenced as they are by our upbringing and past relationships, are both comic and even tragic. Such is the case in Rachel Matthews'novel, Never Look Desperate, as the central character...

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Megan Rogers and Eugen Bacon from 2023-08-24T11:30

'The Heart is a Star'by Megan Rogers is a lyrical story about how we can uncover our true selves when we are forced to face the myths that make us.'Serengotti'sees not just characters but the very ...

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Kate Mildenhall and Silvia Kwon from 2023-08-17T11:30

‘The Hummingbird Effect’ by Kate Mildenhall. A kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread.Was Vincent van Gogh a good Samaritan or self centred artist?...

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Amy Suiter Clarke and Mark Brandi from 2023-08-10T11:30

Another thought provoking crime novel by Amy Suiter Clarke. Instead of podcasts concentrating on cold case murders in ‘Girl, 11’ this time she has a cult-like church being exposed in ‘Lay Your Body...

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Magdalena McGuire and Peter Hubbard from 2023-07-27T11:30

‘Born For You’ by Magdalena McGuire has written a luminous short story collection about the intensity of women’s lives and reveals the myriad of ways that women are compelled to reinvent themselves...

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George Ivanoff and Pip Finkemeyer from 2023-07-20T11:30

‘Monster Island’, the latest children’s book by George Ivanoff, is populated by strange and unusual creatures that could well be real. Bernie and Ivy must prevent poachers from stealing these curio...

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Gina Perry and Michelle Prak from 2023-07-13T11:30

Nine Year old Ruby and her father Mitch, had an itinerant lifestyle in Gina Perry’s debut novel ‘My Father the Whale’. Sixteen years later we see the repercussions of those lifestyle choices.In The...

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Libby Angel and Bora Chung from 2023-06-29T11:30

From boarding houses to share houses to tough accommodation on the streets, Libby Angel has written about a young women encountering like minded artists and activist in 1990’s Melbourne. ‘Where I s...

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Nina Wan and Michelle Jager from 2023-06-22T11:30

Primrose has problems. It’s not just her obsessiveness but her marriage, her journalistic career, her first love living over the road and her entitled brother-in-law coming to stay. Nina Wan writes...

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Lisa Moule with Danielle Binks from 2023-06-15T11:30

Lisa Moule talks with author, literary agent and creative writing teacher, Danielle Binks on our Radiothon program.

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Aisling Smith and Lorraine Peck from 2023-05-25T11:30

'After The Rain'addresses the foundations of uncertainty within lives and even countries and is the debut novel of Aisling Smith.Lorraine Peck continues the crime saga of drugs and money which are ...

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Amy Taylor and Catherine de st Phalle from 2023-05-18T11:30

'Search History'by Amy Taylor is a sharp and funny debut novel about obsession and desire in the internet age.Catherine de st Phalle entertains us once again with familiar characters in'Call Me Mar...

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Robert Gott and Claire Christian from 2023-05-11T11:30

Robert Gott's novel,'Naked Ambition', mocks politicians, fundamentalists and public relations experts who all have a habit of over exposing themselves in one way or another. Claire Christian is the...

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Jacinta Halloran and Dominic Smith from 2023-04-27T11:30

Every family is different and in Jacinta Halloran, ‘Resistance’ it’s a therapist’s job to decide if a mother and father are fit parents but with so many other family stories in the book, how can an...

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It's All Connected from 2023-04-20T11:30

Angela Buckingham and Robyn Bishop talk with Lisa Moule about their short stories in the anthology,'It's All Connected'released by Spinifex Press.

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Jess McGeachin and Amanda Hampson from 2023-04-13T11:30

'Deep', by writer illustrator Jess McGeachin, plumbs the depths of the ocean, of space, of the jungle and even our own subterranean world of subways and sewers. The snippets of information will int...

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Lindy Cameron and Eugene Bacon from 2022-05-04T04:16:49.087450

Not all crime novels have to have serial killers or gore. ‘Who sleuthed it?’ is a light hearted and fun read with animals helping to solve crimes. These short stories are by 19 different writers fr...

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Ali Berg with Michelle Kalus and Chris Hammer from 2022-05-04T04:16:49.084707

Second time around, Evie is reliving her 20’s, will she find the love she is looking for and the career she wants? Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus join together to make the romantic comedy ‘Fancy Meeti...

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Karen Turner and Michael McGirr from 2022-05-04T04:16:49.078288

During a bombing raid over Yorkshire in WW2, a German pilot is shot down and protected by a farming family for what reason and what risk? Karen Turner has written a big book of sacrifice and love a...

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Keren Heenan and Mandy Beaumont from 2022-05-04T04:16:49.072241

Australia is diverse, Keren Heenen is one of the sixteen writers who surprise you, as they take you to places you know, or think you know, in ‘The Furphy Anthology’, selected stories from the Furph...

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Ennis Cehic and Dominque Wilson from 2022-03-10T11:30

Insight and satire abound in short stories about The advertising industry in ’Sadvertising’ by Ennis Cehic.Dominique Wilson traverses one hundred years of Australian history in her novel, ‘Orphan R...

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Fiction from France and real schooldays from 2022-03-07T01:18:54.180120

Cenarth Fox takes us to a Europe on the brink of war in'A Plum Job'.In'Bad Behaviour', a memoir of bullying and boarding school'Rebecca Starford writes about a time of freindship and joy but also o...

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A S Patric from 2022-03-07T01:18:54.149172

Black Rock White City is A. S Patric's first published novel. Rich in symbolism, it explores the struggle of a tramatized European couple reestablishing their lives in suburban Melbourne whilst gra...

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Maggie Alderson and Murray Middleton from 2022-03-07T01:18:54.115172

Maggie Alderson's'Secret Keeping for Beginners'is much more than a romance story. Her characters are dependent on social media but do they really want everything about them to be told? Should some...

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The Mothers from 2022-03-07T01:18:54.058457

Rod Jones traces the arc of social change towards women and the challenges of pregnancy in his novel,'The Mothers'. His own history as an adopted child contributes to the dynamic of the story.

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Leonie Binge and Jane Harrison from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.977090

Leonie Binge writes about her famly history and why her grandmother sent her mother and aunt to an orphanage in'Nellie's Vow'.Jane Harrison raises issues and assumptions about being indigenous just...

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Rebecca Lim and Alex Hammond from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.969184

Rebecca Lim has Sophie being challenged, not just by her own peers, but by a paranormal presence who requires her to find her killer in'Afterlight'.Alex Hammond's crime novel'The Unbroken Line'expl...

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Claire Varley and Abigail Ulman from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.954649

Is writing a love story easier than living one? Author Claire Varley has her character Oliver, sharing insights in the very funny'The Bit in Between'.Abigail Ulman's short story collection'Hot Litt...

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Anson Cameron and Lisa N Edwards from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.849745

'Boyhoodlum'is Anson Cameron's eulogy to his mis-spent childhood.Nikki has a good job in Hollywood but The Guy is elusive in Lisa N Edwards romance,'Can't Fight Fate'.

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David Astle and Peggy Frew from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.749496

When is a boy not a boy? Read David Astle's'Riddledom'to find out.'Hope Farm'should be a self sufficient happy hippy commune. Peggy Frew writes about a 13 year old daughter and her realisation that...

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Peter Rees on Charles Bean from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.673453

Charles Bean carried a pen and not a rifle in the World war One trenches. He became an active and respected historian documenting Australia's role in that great conflict. Peter Rees delves into the...

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Plain-speaking Jane. Jane Caro's memoir. from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.567926

Jane's memoir is part social history, part social commentary and part personal insight. In reflecting on her life, she initially takes us back to a more innocent time, challenges taboos like sexual...

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Leah van Poppel and Honey Brown from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.541232

Leah van Poppel talks knowledgably about where, why and who are the characters in literature and what do they represent.Honey Brown is the author of many books where there isn't a character with a ...

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David Carlin from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.529152

David Carlin knows Sosina well and has written her story of growing up in Ethiopia, finding asylum and a circus career in Australia and the emotional draw back to family and culture of Ethiopia in'...

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Sara Foster and Olga Lorenzo from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.474378

Will the daughter tell her secret and allow her family help her? Sara Foster's 'All That is Lost Between Us'is a domestic noir set in the Lake District in England. A lost child, a mother's respons...

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Luke Devenish from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.384663

Luke Devenish creates a sense of Australian Gothic in'The Secret Heiress'.

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Juliet Fox and Toni Jordan from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.277529

Join in a tribute of four decades of 3CR's community service in'Radical Radio-celebrating 40 years of 3CR, introduced by Juliet Fox.Toni Jordan has written a comedy about love and marriage, how kid...

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The Memory Artist from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.260614

Katherine Brabon's,'The Memory Artist', explores the collective soul of Russia as her character, Pasha Ivanov, revisits the past and the landscape of his future.

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Emily Maguire from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.258160

When a young woman is murdered it makes media headlines. Emily Maguire's book'An Isolated Incident'concentrates on the effect to loved ones.

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We Ate the Road Like Vultures from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.246767

'We Ate the Road Like Vultures'is a contemporary'road trip'by Lynette Lounsbury full of invention and surprises.

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Lee Kofman and Robert Gott from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.230936

Do you know of young girls who defy their parents, who are not good girls? These 17 stories from'Rebellious Daughters'are from many different backgrounds and Lee Kofman is just one of them.Revel in...

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Mary Borsellino and Maurilia Meehan from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.223634

In a world of have and have nots, the haves may have money but not emotions or books. This is where Mary Borsellino has set'Thrive'.'Five ways to be famous now'is Maurilia Meehan's social satire fu...

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Laura Elizabeth Woollett and Isabelle Li from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.220728

Laura Elizabeth Woollett has blended creative fiction with true crime in'The love of a bad man'.Cross-cultural differences are explored in Isabelle Li's short story collection,'A Chinese Affair'.

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A Paris Memoir by Catherine de Saint Phalle from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.176477

'Poum and Alexandre - A Paris Memoir'is Catherine de Saint Phalle's recollection of her parents in post was Paris. They are eccentric characters and their lives are told through the eyes of Catheri...

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Dominic Smith - The Last Painting of Sara de Vos from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.168839

Set in three different periods of time, Dominic Smith's,'The Last Painting of Sara de Vos', provides the reader with insights into the world of Dutch art masters and the contemporary world of art f...

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Heather Rose and Jude Perera from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.152847

'The Museum of Modern Love'is a fictional story by Heather Rose about the people who came to watch and participate wih Marina Abramovic in her Arist is Present performance.Jude Perera's'The Beast'i...

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Holly Throsby and Robert Gott from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.145918

Holly Throsby has created'Goodwood', a small town where it is impossible to keep a secret - so how and why did two people disappear?The summer season of Published or Not brings us a replay of'The S...

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Sunni Overend from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.079132

Sunni Overend's'The Dangers of Truffle Hunting'is a sexy story questioning if passion will outweigh the simmering discontent in both love and food.

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Libby Angel and Maree Coote from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.076052

A program about highflyers.Libby Angel's'The Trapeze Act'is about a daughter wanting to find out about herself, will the humourous and bizarre stories of her decendants help?Maree Coote has put fam...

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Cassandra Austin and Ouyang Yu from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.065437

The bridge isn't the only thing that has broken in'All Fall Down', Cassandra Austin has set her book about broken relationships in outback Australia.Ouyang Yu provides an unique insight into Austra...

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Jane Rawson from 2022-03-07T01:18:53.060355

Jane Rawson takes us on a psycholgical and metaphysical journey in'From the Wreck'.

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Klaas Kalma and Fiona Lowe from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.971459

Klaas Kalma's self-published novel,'Distant Echoes', takes us back to post-World War Two Australia.Fiona Lowe's novel,'Daughter of Mine', exposes the secrets within families over time.

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Rosemary Macindoe and Rebecca Rosengrave from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.875376

Money or a sense of humour - what is worth more? Be amused by Rosemary Macindoe's The Toorak Jackpot.Myth and fable are integral components of Rebecca Rosengrave's Gumtree Gargoyles.

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David Francis and Wayne Macauley from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.861595

'Wedding Bush Road'is a novel about the choices we make, the duty to parents and the regrets that linger by David Francis.'Some Tests'by Wayne Macauley takes us on a surrealistic journey through th...

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Sally Abbott and Alex Miles from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.858822

Sally Abbott reveals a dystopian Australia of the not so distant future in'Closing Down'.Alex Miles talks about her different writing styles in her'Olive Black'series featuring a 10 year old supers...

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Moira Burke and Mark Brandi from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.844885

Teenager Josie is in self destrutive behaviour with underage sex and drugs in Moira Burke's'Losing It'.Innocence meets the dark underbelly of society in Mark Brandi's'Wimmera'.

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Rachel Matthews and Anna George from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.833884

There is a pathos in Rachel Matthews'novel,'Siren'which explores the circumstances in society contributing to sexual violence.Anna George centers the challenges and pressures of motherhood across s...

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Rose Michael and Daniel Findlay from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.776257

Featured this week are two contrasting novels of speculative fiction: The Art of Navigation by Rose Michael, published by UWAP; Year of the Orphan by Daniel Findlay, published by Penguin Random House.

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Lachlan Walter and Lois Murphy from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.676876

'The Rain Never Came'is a post-apocalyptic novel written by Lachlan Walter, published by Odyssey Books.Lois Murphy provides a cautionary tale of just how easily we can be overcome by an allegorical...

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A.S. Patric and Alex Miller from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.558833

Life is a voyage on a deep, dark ocean in A.S. Patric's,'Atlantic Black'.Alex Miller has written a novel which is also based on his own life in'The Passage of Love'.

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Elizabeth Corbett and Konrad Marshall from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.545137

'The Tides Between'is an historical novel of early migration to the Port Phillip settlement of Melbourne by Elizabeth Jane Corbett and published by Odyssey Books.Konrad Marshall delves into the sto...

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Tony Wilson and Monica McInerney from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.471756

Tony Wilson talks about'Sir Bum', his contribution to'Laugh Your Head Off Again and Again'which delves into the possible improbabilities of the lives of childen.Monica McInerney explores the meanin...

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Glenna Thomson and Sue Williams from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.339301

Glenna Thomson's second novel is'Stella and Margie'(2018), her first is'Blueberry'(2017), both are published by Penguin Random House (Bantam imprint). The Melbourne launch of'Stella and Margie'is o...

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Anne Buist and Penni Russon from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.324004

Who should have custody? Author, Anne Buist, has used her own knowledge as a psychiatrist in the psychological thriller,'This I Would Kill For'.A family relocating to a haunted house, riviving the ...

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Richard Holt and Anna Snoekstra from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.320452

Richard Holt's,'What You Might Find', is an entertaining collection of micro-fiction with a poetic bent.What will an aspiring journalist do get out of her small country town? Anna Snoekstra has man...

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Craig Sherborne and Sally Hepworth from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.252898

A novel for the modern male, Craig Sherborne's,'Off the Record', skewers the male ego and current day journalism.How well do you know your neighbours? Sally Hepworth has interesting twists and turn...

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Debra Oswald and Judy Bierwirth from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.158646

Debra Oswald's'The Whole Bright Year'is a fiction about growing up. She chats with Judy Bierwirth as they both have writen for stage and screen.

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S. A. Jones and Mira Robertson from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.126468

S. A. Jones has cleverly written about the many and varied sexual encounters in'The Fortress'where men have to be subservient to women.Emily's horizons are broadened after she is dispatched to the ...

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Jenny Ackland and Julie Prendergast from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.077149

'Little Gods'by Jenny Ackland has a young girl on the cusp of womanhood who wants to find answers to a family secret but also learns that the truth doesn't always set you free.Family and social dys...

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Phil Copsey and George Ivanoff from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.066277

Blue Justice is a gritty Melbourne crime novel that draws on Phil Copsey's four decades in the police force.Other Worlds is an intriguing series by Melbourne author, George Ivanoff, that invites th...

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Alli Sinclair and Moreno Giovannoni from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.048591

Alli Sinclair has set'Burning Fields'in the sugar cane area of northern Queensland in 1945 with a character, Rosie, who wants to rebuild her family without losing the man she loves. Moreno Giovann...

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David Metzenthen and Kirsty Manning from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.033179

'George Parker Goes Global'is a delightfully ridiculous adventure for the teenage reader by David Metzenthen.Kirsty Manning's'The Jade Lily'is an intriguing tale of how three generations are shaped...

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Laura Elizabeth Woollett and Rebecca Lim from 2022-03-07T01:18:52.030264

'Beautiful Revolutionary'is an engrossing historical fiction by Laura Elizabeth Woollett, explaining the charismatic Jim Jones and why so many followed him to their death. We are taken on a mythic...

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Meaghan Wilson Anastasios and Louisa Deasey from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.977253

'The Honourable Thief'has archaeology, Artemis, sex and black market antiquity sales in this action packed adventure by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios.Louisa Deasey rediscovers family, her father, his l...

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Sarah Myles and Katya de Becerra from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.965045

Sarah Myles has written a gripping moral thriller about an abduction of a young Australian aid worker. 'The Wolf Hour'is set in Africa .Myth and reality collide in Katya de Becerra's,'What the Wood...

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Jock Serong and Katherine Collette from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.949150

Jock Serong delves into an often overlooked chapter of early Australian history in his novel,'Preservation'which addresses the puzzling riddle of The Sydney Cove wreck in 1797 and its cargo of rum....

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About Clive James from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.946341

The latest two poetry collections by Clive James - Injury Time and The River in the Sky - seemingly defy his terminal cancer diagnosis. He continues to write and the compulsion has led to evocative...

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Toni Jordan and June Laurie from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.928093

Toni Jordan has written about a lost book and a secret love in'The Fragments'which connects a literary mystery with the transitional times in politcs of 1936 and 1986.June Laurie's adolescent novel...

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Bren MacDibble and Kate Richards from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.881828

Once again, Bren MacDibble takes us into the immediate future where food secuity is compromised.'The Dog Runner'looks at what happens when all grasses are destroyed and ten year old Ella and her ha...

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Katherine Kovacic and Fiona Lowe from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.862641

A cursed painting sets the tone for the latest murder mystery by Katherine Kovacic,'Painting in the Shadows'. Will art dealer, Alex Clayton identify the clues that sets forgeries apart from the tr...

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Andrea Goldsmith and Melissa Ferguson from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.846227

One migrant changes countries and changes the lives of those she meets. 'Invented Lives'by Andrea Goldsmith is set in 1980's Melbourne but has a back story of Russian history.'The Shining Wall'is M...

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Carmel Reilly and Sulari Gentill from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.827873

'Life Before'has an ordinary family caught in a terrible situation and 20 years on, a sister has to confront memories and a brother she hasn't seen since. Carmel Reilly's'Life Before'is part family...

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Sallie Muirden and Louise Swinn from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.820504

Second thoughts are not uncommon before a wedding but what do you do when you receive a note from your fiance's former girlfriend on the morning of the wedding? Sallie Muirden explores the anxiety ...

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Alex Landragin and K.H.Canobi from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.768238

We transcend time and identities as souls are passed from one indidual to another in Alex Landragin's,'Crossings'.Will virtual reality be there just for entertainment or will it take over our lives...

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Sarah Hopkins and Michael Pryor from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.742964

Juvenile detention and drugs have facts readers will come to question in the fiction of'The Subjects'by Sarah Hopkins.Melbourne has mote ghosts than you realize and Michael Pryor reveals the extent...

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Elizabeth Bryer and Leisl Leighton from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.684773

Elizabeth Bryer reveals how the corruption of stories, language and art speak to the fears within society in her novel,'From Here On, Monsters'.Drugs and romance are alive in'Echo Springs'. Leisl L...

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Hana Assafir and Maya Linnell from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.682186

Hana Assafir's'Arab Australian Other - stories on race and identity'speaks to the assumptions and prejudices inherent in societies about race and religion.Family life with no privacy of city life w...

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Joey Bui and Marcus Verstraelen from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.669693

'Lucky Ticket'is a story collection from a range of story tellers, connected by deing displaced in a different country or their own, with insightful writing by Joey Bui.The world can be discombobul...

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Jennifer Bryce and Kathleen Mary Fallon from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.651121

There were many things that could disgrace a person in 1920's society: divorce, being placed in a mental asylum and pregnancy before marriage. Jennifer Bryce's debut novel,'Lily Campbell's Secret',...

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Dominic Smith from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.631671

'The Electric Hotel'is the title of one of the first silent films ever made and Dominic Smith has used the concept of film in our lives and history in his novel which goes by the same name. The inf...

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Catherine de Saint Phalle and Emma Viskic from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.616518

The universal need for connection and belonging is profound but is best illustrated in Catherine de Saint Phalle's novel,'The Sea and Us'which is set in a simple fish and chip shop in Sydney Road, ...

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Kate Murdoch and Meg Keneally from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.570745

In 1705, the French Court in Versailles was full of plotting and scheming. This was also happening with a Duke's wife and his five mistresses, who were all trying to improve their own circumstances...

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Kirsten Alexander and Tara Mitchell from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.555980

Hit and run has its consequences, as with all actions there are reactions, some most surprising. Kirsten Alexander's'Riptides'is a family drama set in Brisbane through the 1970's.Recently Kirsten s...

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Kirsty Manning from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.544269

Kirsty Manning's'The Lost Jewels'is a story about mining, trade, design, families, love, loyalty and of course well researched history.

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Laura Jean McKay and Peter Grose from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.528656

If you could talk to the animals would you listen to what they really wanted to say? Laura Jean McKay has set'The Animals In That Country'in a time of a pandemic where the infected can do just that...

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Anne Buist and L.A. Larkin from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.372687

Is Isobel a better detective than she is a pscycholigist? She needs to solve the mystery of a baby's murder and prevent another possible tragedy in Anne Buist's'The Long Shadow'.‘Prey’, by L A Lark...

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Kate Grenville and Patrick Mullins from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.361551

Was Elizabeth Macarthur the demure woman history may have her to be? Kate Grenville has turned biographical fiction inside out in'A Room Made of Leaves'. Patrick Mullins explores the absurdity of A...

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Jessie Tu and Luke Horton from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.358748

Jena Lin had a public life as a celebrated violinist and a private life as a raging sex addict. The how and why is fearlessly told in Jessie Tu's'A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing'. Anxiety can be...

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Tom Keneally and Sisters in Crime from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.344080

'The Dickens Boy'by Thomas Keneally looks at not just the life of Edward (Plorn) Dickens, the son of the great author sent to Australia when he was sixteen, but at the social landscape of a contine...

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Kathleen Jennings and Ewa Ramsey from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.335996

Kathleen Jennings takes us behind the fairytale face of a country town to something a little more darkly mythic as her central character searches for her lost father and brothers in ‘Flyaway’.'The ...

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Monica McInerney and Barry Lee Thompson from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.323616

Eliza's godmothers are her mother's best friends. Will they be able to help her find her father? Friendships and truths are at the heart of'The Godmothers'by Monica McInerney.The stories in Barry L...

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Jock Serong and Alex Miller from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.320575

Jock Serong, in'The Burning Island', takes us on an epic journey into Australia’s early days; the shipwrecks, the eccentric individuals and odd communities found on the islands in Bass Strait.The h...

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Rosalie Ham and Ellie Marney from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.275484

20 years ago Rosalie Ham gave us Tilly Dunnage from Dungatar in her debut novel and has followed it with another story of fun and frocks in'The Dressmaker's Secret'.‘None Shall Sleep’ is Ellie Marn...

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Trevor Shearston and J.P. Pomare from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.167053

‘The Beach Caves’ by Trevor Shearston is more than a dip into Australian prehistory, it’s a novel of behind the scenes academic envy, guilt and the impact of the choices we make.J P Pomare, once ag...

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Laura Bloom and Polly Phillips from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.159893

'The Women and the Girls’ is an entertaining read about women being challenged as they try to excel as mothers and friends in a sharehouse, without husbands and set in Sydney in the 1970’s.Your be...

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Kavita Bedford and Allie Reynolds from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.145981

‘Friends and Dark Shapes’ by Kavita Bedford has short sharp observations of emotions, memories, landscapes and the difficulties of being a mature adult, or whatever that is.In the best traditions o...

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Anna George and Roland Perry from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.142696

Can the attitudes within school, work and marriage be changed? Can society become fairer? Anna Geoge has a very hopeful and insightfully humorous book about all of this happening in'Tipping'.‘The S...

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Emily Maguire and Sandi Scaunich from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.129653

Emily Maguire has written about ‘Love Objects’. Things that are personal becoming public and the deep hurt associated with it especially if those things are sex and hoarding. One person’s trash is ...

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Amanda Hampson and Kelly Rimmer from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.082806

In their youth, lovebirds Elizabeth and Ray had to fight to be together. Conscription altered their happiness and Lizzy now has to fight her own stubbornness on a bizarre road trip to reunite her ...

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Melissa Manning and Jacqueline Bublitz from 2022-03-07T01:18:51.071342

Melissa Manning has created resilient characters who live in the small communities of southern Tasmania, in the linked stories of ‘Smokehouse’.Jacqueline Bublitz merges the lives of Alice and Ruby...

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Michelle Wright and Simon Rowell from 2022-03-07T01:18:50.971033

Murder can be opportunistic or professional planned. Simon Rowell has Detective Sergeant Zoe Mayer investigating against time in'The Long Game'. In Michelle Wright’s, ‘Small Acts of Defianc...

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Rachel Givney and Robert Hillman from 2022-03-07T01:18:50.958801

Poland in 1939, with the background of anti-semitism and the imminent Nazi invasion, Maria is absorbed in finding the whereabouts of her mother in ‘Secrets my father kept’ by Rachel Givney.Against...

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Ilsa Evans and Sara el Sayed from 2022-03-07T01:18:50.955665

Grandmothers may live on the periphery of a family’s life but when Shirley and Beth suspect their grand daughter is being abused they abduct her with much interest from police, media and of course ...

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Jacquie Byron and J P Pomare from 2022-03-07T01:18:50.877207

Jacquie Byron has created a feisty 65 year old woman, getting older but perhaps not wiser. Friends had become unwelcome in her seclusion until circumstances, being the new neighbours, breach her fo...

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Hannah Kent and Margaret Hickey from 2022-03-07T01:18:50.670096

Hannah Kent ‘s book ‘Devotion’ in part tells how devout Lutherans emigrated to South Australia but more so about two young woman in the group who find friendship and committed love that follows the...

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Katherine Collette and Megan Albany from 2022-02-24T11:30

Most people have obsessions, Katherine Collette has written about those who take on speech making in ‘The Competition’. This delightful read has a mixture of memorable characters who find happines...

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Emily Brugman and Gary Disher from 2022-02-10T11:30

Emily Brugman writes of the Finnish migrants building homes and families in Australia, connected by hard work, crayfish, the beauty and the terror of the sea and nature in ‘The Islands’.Garry Dishe...

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Joy Dettman and Michael McGirr from 2022-01-27T11:30

In Joy Dettman’s ‘The Hope Flower’ there is a volatile mother, her children raise themselves away from the gaze of the authorities, but when she emerges after body shaping surgery, will it be for h...

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Patsy Poppenbeek and Maxine Beneba Clarke from 2021-12-16T11:30

Patsy Popenbeek is one of 40 contributors to ‘South of the Sun: Australian fairy tales for the 21st century’ which are strictly for grown ups!Maxine Beneba Clarke’s poetry is both funny and alarmin...

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Peter Watt and C.S. Pacat from 2021-11-25T11:30

'The Colonial’s Son'is historical fiction from the Palmer River goldfields to the political power play of Europe, Peter Watt writes of the fighting by bushrangers or armies to achieve their ambitio...

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Sally Hepworth and Katherine Kovacic from 2021-11-18T11:30

A step-mother, younger than the groom’s daughters, creates uncertainty in the family with secrets and lies being revealed. Sally Hepworth has written another page-turner in ‘The Younger Wife’ which...

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Emily Bitto and Mirranda Burton from 2021-10-28T11:30

A young man runs from Melbourne into the excesses of capitalism in New York and again into the rural heartland of Ohio . Will he find what he is looking for in Emily Bitto’s novel,'Wild Abandon'. M...

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Tania Farrelly and Antoni Jach from 2021-10-21T11:30

The best of creativity and compassion and the worst of unchecked greed and entitlement are in ‘The Eighth Wonder’, a historical fiction set in the Gilded Age of New York by Tania FarrellyAntoni Jac...

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Ruth McIver and Ann Rennie from 2021-10-14T11:30

Erin’s teenage friends were charged with a horrific murder. 16 years later and as a crime writer, she gets to investigate it herself, in ‘I Shot the Devil’ by Ruth McIver.Ann Rennie’s, ‘Blessed’, i...

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Kate Ryan and Robert Gott from 2021-09-30T11:30

Kate Ryan takes the reader back and forth in ‘The Golden Book’ from a childhood friendship and devastating accident to adult acceptance of blame and learning about the nature of fear and love. Robe...

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Paige Clark and Gabrielle Williams from 2021-09-23T11:30

When family stories are not told or things go unsaid between mothers and daughters or a relationship ends, there is a little death. The grief is played out in many ways through the short stories by...

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Miles Allinson and Stephen Orr from 2021-09-16T11:30

Three generations are looking for inspiration and guidance to find out how to love and live. From the India ashram in the 70’s to closed societies of the future, the outcomes for these three genera...

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Sophie Overett and Mark Brandi from 2021-08-26T11:30

In the middle of a heatwave in Brisbane, a son disappears. This causes a family to reconnect, share their secrets, surprisingly make new friendships and investigate their skills, be it art or disap...

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Katherine Brabon and Charlie Donlea from 2021-08-19T11:30

Japanese life is steeped in traditions, but four interconnected characters tell of how a different life can be lived in ‘The Shut Ins’ by Katherine Brabon. Charlie Donlea uses the Twin Towers colla...

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Briohny Doyle and Tania Chandler from 2021-08-12T11:30

Things are falling apart: the lake is drying up, the town is changing and who you are in a marriage and a broader family is under scrutiny, in ‘Echolalia’ by Briohny Doyle.Tania Chandler exposes th...

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Brendan Murray and R. W. R. McDonald from 2021-07-29T11:30

Brendan Murray takes us back to school highlighting the challenges and rewards in his book, “The School”, where he covers the academic yearly cycle of tests, bullying and the kindness of students....

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Amy Suiter Clarke and Laura Elizabeth Woollett from 2021-07-22T11:30

Elle has a popular true-crime podcast, her investigation into a cold case serial killer has more murders happening in this thriller, ‘Girl, 11’ by Amy Suiter Clarke.‘The Newcomer’ plays on the murd...

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Amy Rudder and Anna Ciddor from 2021-07-15T11:30

'By chance the Future'by Amy Rudder blends the philosophy of why we travel, with politics and comedy with the big question what did we learn on the way? There’s no better way to appreciate how the ...

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Madeleine Ryan and Michael Ahmad from 2021-06-24T11:30

Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s protagonist, Bani Adam, is encouraged to marry but must negotiate the customs and traditions inherent within his Lebanese Alawite community while simultaneously establishin...

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Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist from 2021-06-17T11:30

Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist wrote about fictional walkers, learning about themselves and others on the Camino, in'Two Steps Forward'. Another book, with another walk and more humour. 'Two Steps O...

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Kirsty Manning and Alice Pung from 2021-06-10T11:30

‘The French Gift’ could be the unpublished manuscript of a crime novel or the bond of friendship between two unlikely women, one a French Resistance fighter and the other, a murderer. Historical fi...

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L. P. McMahon and Christopher Hawkes from 2021-05-27T11:30

Could a successful female Melbourne doctor be as vulnerable as an orphaned girl from remote Pakistan? L. P. McMahon takes us on a remarkable read through the circumstances of life and surgery in'As...

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John Kinsella and Ella Baxter from 2021-05-20T11:30

John Kinsella's evocation of the Australian landscape and the voices of the ordinary people speaks eloquently of the emotions, concerns and feelings with which we can all identify in his anthology ...

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Belinda Lyons-Lee and Emma Batchelor from 2021-05-13T11:30

Belinda Lyons-Lee touches on the macabre history of Madame Tussaud, the lifelike images of wax and how they excited the likes of the necromancer, Philidor, and the His Grace William Cavendish in he...

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Robin Gregory and Stuart Everly-Wilson from 2021-04-29T11:30

Private Investigators have to use discretion, spy craft, endless patience and self preservation to get results. Sandi Kent needs all of these to crack cases of sexual slavery in the suburbs of Melb...

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Lyn Yeowart and Ben Sanders from 2021-04-22T11:30

Can one person be a model citizen as well as a feared monster? After 20 years a small rural community hasn’t solved the disappearance of a young girl. ‘The Silent Listener’ by Lyn Yeowart is so mu...

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Emily Spurr and Kathryn Barker from 2021-04-15T11:30

Both 10 year old Rae and next door neighbour Lettie have secrets and houses but not homes. Emily Spurr has written about isolation, Splinter the dog and love in ‘A Million Things’.Shakespeare is t...

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Rebecca Starford and Dennis Glover from 2021-03-25T11:30

‘The Imitator’ by Rebecca Starford is a page-turning, shocking WW2 spy thriller loosely based on the real-life events of a MI5 female agent based in London in the 1930s and 40s. “I have seen the pa...

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Andrew Mackie and Irma Gold from 2021-03-18T11:30

‘The Tour’ of the new Queen in 1954 was to be a glamorous adventure for the Chettle sisters serving as maids in waiting, but instead it was a royal disaster in waiting, humoursly written by Andrew ...

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Sue Williams and Lorraine Peck from 2021-03-11T11:30

‘Elizabeth and Elizabeth’ are the wives of John Macarthur and Lachlan Macquarie. They should have been bitter foes, but author Sue Williams has them combining their courage and wisdom to influence ...

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Rebecca Lim and Katherine Kovacic from 2021-02-25T11:30

Good characters in a good story, Rebecca Lim has Wen, a 14 year old ‘Tiger Daughter’, grappling against racism, sexism and the cultural expectations of her family. ‘The Schoolgirl Strangler’ by Kat...

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Allison Gibbs and Gary Lonesborough from 2021-02-18T11:30

Will'Repentance' be known for logging or rainforest tourism? It's a town and the title of Allison Gibb's novel, set during the protests of the 1970's, full of characters who have their own historie...

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Leisl Leighton and Iain Ryan from 2021-02-11T11:30

Rock climbing, horse riding, burglaries, stolen guns, drugs, kidnapping and a"freely given, open-ended, joyous declaration of love", this and more in Leisl Leighton's'Climbing Fear'.Life becomes a ...

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Aaron Smith and June Wilson from 2021-01-28T11:30

Aaron Smith spent seven years editing The Torres News from Thursday Island. His account, The Rock, highlights many of the political, social, personal and economic issues the islanders face and the ...

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Denise Leith and Sarah Thornton from 2021-01-21T11:30

Denise Leith has set'The Night Letters'in Afghanistan. As well as the ongoing political problems, an Australian doctor meets and learns of the secrets, friendships and loves of a wealth of characte...

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Barry Jonsberg and Anna Morgan from 2021-01-14T11:30

Barry Jonsberg takes us into a world compromised by climate change where artificial intelligence is a necessary survival tool in, Catch Me If I Fall. Twins, Ashleigh and Aiden, as they mature, real...

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Craig Silvey and Barry Jones from 2020-12-17T11:30

The unusual characters, the interesting situations and the building of friendships make ‘Honeybee’ another moving, occasionally devastating, read by Craig SilveyBarry Jones applies his incredible i...

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Sally Hepworth and Elwood Writers from 2020-12-10T11:30

Sally Hepworth has mixed humour and dark reality, with the wonders and horrors of having a sister in'The Good Sister'.Every Second Tuesday is a collection of poetry, fiction and memoir generated by...

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Phillip Salom and Georgina Young from 2020-11-26T11:30

Readers and writers alike get lost in stories. Philip Salom plays on this conceit in his latest work,'The Fifth Season'.If we could instantly know the rules to being an adult, would that make growi...

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Chris Hammer and Fiona Palmer from 2020-11-19T11:30

Once again, Chris Hammer’s protagonist, Martin Scarsden, confronts murder and corruption but this time Sydney is where the action takes place. Martin doesn’t know if he can trust anyone – not even ...

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Gary Disher and Sandi Wallace from 2020-11-12T11:30

Some people find consolation in their obsessions and some of those obsessions can lead to murder. Gary Disher explores that psychological conundrum in the next instalment of his Hirschhausen series...

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Benjamin Stevenson and Tobias McCorkell from 2020-10-29T11:30

The power of words can change lives, and the power of revenge can live for a long time in Benjamin Stevenson's crime novel'The Other Side Of Midnight'. Boys need a discourse and language that help...

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Rawah Arja and S L Lim from 2020-10-22T11:30

What can teenage boys learn about themselves from playing sport? Lots, especially in Rawah Arja's amusing and insighful novel,'The F Team'.A sibling exacts a form of retribution for being denied op...

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Petronella McGovern and S R White from 2020-10-15T11:30

Petronella McGovern's suspense novel of kindness and berayal culminates when'The Good Teacher'crosses the line from professional to personal.A murder mystery and a suspect without a motive – S R Wh...

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Jane Harper and Sam Coley from 2020-09-24T11:30

No one had come through the storm unscathed. Twelve years later, and with another death, blame and guilt rise to the surface again in'The Survivor'by Jane Harper.‘State Highway One’ is Sam Coley’s ...

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Deborah Challinor and Lili Wilkinson from 2020-09-17T11:30

Kings Cross in the 60's is a place to swing, or a place to hide. There is a collection of friends who are trying to find their own identities while helping each other, in Deborah Challinor's'The Ja...

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Meg Keneally and Paul Dalgarno from 2020-09-10T11:30

Rebellion and dissent were bubbling just below the surface in the early Australian colony which Meg Keneally explores in her latest historical fiction,'The Wreck'. 'Poly', by Paul Dalgarno, is a fu...

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Christie Nieman and Melissa Davey from 2020-08-27T11:30

A mother is too full of shame and a daughter is too full of anger. When the past secrets meet the secrets of the present, will there be any forgiveness in'Where We Begin'by Christie Nieman.Melissa ...

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Peter O'Brien and Fin J Ross from 2020-08-20T11:30

Peter O’Brien takes us back in time in ‘Bush School’ highlighting the primitive living and learning conditions of a single-teacher classroom in rural New South Wales in 1960.Using big words may s...

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Pip Williams from 2020-08-13T11:30

Pip Williams has written a most engaging story of why a word may have been lost and how a woman engages in society in the early 1900's in'The Dictionary of Lost Words'.

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Kyle Perry and Victoria Hannan from 2020-07-30T11:30

Crime fiction with more twists and surprises than the bush tracks through the atmospheric landscape of rugged Tasmania. Is it just bad choices or something worse that casuses the death of teenage ...

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Robbie Arnott and Rita Therese from 2020-07-23T11:30

Robbie Arnott in creating the myth of ‘The Rain Heron’ speaks eloquently about some of the attitudes and concerns we face today as a society. Bold, brave and darkly funny, Rita Therese writes about...

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Leonie Kelsall and Keith Banks from 2020-07-16T11:30

A traumatic past and an unexpected inheritance bring heart, humour and hope in'The Farm at Peppertree Crossing'by Leonie Kelsall.Working as an undercover cop can be lonely and dangerous work. Keith...

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Patrick Allington and Dani Powell from 2020-06-25T11:30

Dystopian novels can be a little unsettling given the current global climate but Patrick Allington provides an insight into what we will consume in the future and how we will sate our appetites in ...

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Imbi Neeme, Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick from 2020-06-18T11:30

When things happen in a family as they do in'The Spilt'by Imbi Neeme, blame can be apportioned unfairly, this leads to moments of regret for things said to hurt, or things not said at all. What...

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Fiona Harris, Mike McCleish and Dan Kaufman from 2020-06-11T11:30

Coffee and kids connect three parents until they are forced out of their respective comfort zones. They learn more about each oher and themselves than they thought possible in'The Drop-off'by Fiona...

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Darleen Bungey and Hilde Hinton from 2020-05-28T11:30

Who can truly know their parents? Darleen Bungey writes about her celebrity father with a truthful eye and loving heart in'Daddy Cool'.Hilde Hinton’s, ‘The Loudness of Unsaid Things’ highlights the...

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K.M. Kruimink and Felicity Harley from 2020-05-21T11:30

Our perceptions of early Australia are challenged in K M Kruimink's novel, A Treacherous Country', as we follow the naïve Gabriel Fox on his almostimpossible quest to find a woman sent to the penal...

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Chris Flynn and David Dufty from 2020-05-14T11:30

Chris Flynn’s “Mammoth’ novel takes us on an historical journey that encompasses the rise of America on the global stage, the foundations of French scientific thought, the uprisings in Ireland and ...

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Christine Bell and Suzanne Leal from 2020-04-30T11:30

From the depths of Wonthagi coal mines to innercity Melbourne, this is a story about a young woman looking for personal happiness during WW1 but caught up in community sentiment and religious judge...

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Gay Lynch, Angela Sungaila and Asheg Brom from 2020-04-23T11:30

Gay Lynch and Angela Sungaila are some of the authors in'Thrill Me', an anthology of suspenseful stories.What is is like to be an English teacher in China? Asheg Brom has written about his time doi...

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Suzanne Daniel from 2020-04-16T11:30

Suzanne Daniel won the Indie Award for a Debut Novel with her humorous and caring story of a young girl being brought up by two very different grandmothers in'Allegra in Three Parts'.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andrew Darby and Fiona Lowe from 2020-03-19T11:30

David reads a letter written by F. Scott Fitzgerald about self isolating in France during the Spanish Flu pandemic.The fantastic intercontinetal flight of the Grey Plover is the focus of Andrew Dar...

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Margaret Bearman and Sophie Hardcastle from 2020-03-12T11:30

Margaret Bearman's book tells of a father, a famous artist, and how his choice of a subject profoundly effects his family. His daughter is the narrator of this book, 'We Were Never Friends'.Sophie ...

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Sean O'Beirne from 2020-02-27T11:30

Sean's collection of short stories,'A Couple of Things Before the End', speak to social change and the challenges ahead when it comes to discourse and communication. It's a Black Inc release

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Ali Alizadeh from 2020-02-20T11:30

Ali Alizadeh talks about his latest collection of poetry,'Towards the End'and reflects on social dysfunction and how we lead our lives in the contemporary age. The economy, elections and education ...

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Wayne Marshall and J P Pomare from 2020-02-13T11:30

Wayne Marshall talks about his debut collection of short stories: Shirl. It's published by Affirm Press.J P Pomare takes us into the dark and sinister world of cults with his latest novel, In The C...

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Caroline Miley and Nick Richardson from 2020-01-30T11:30

How would a destitute but charming and talented artist cope with painting portraits of Generals during one of the Napoleonic wars? Caroline Miley has written with knowledge and humour in'Artist on ...

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Luke Arnold - The Last Smile in Sunder City from 2020-01-23T11:30

Luke Arnold blends the film noir detective genre with a mythical world more closely associated with Tolkein in'The Last Smile in Sunder City'.

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Fiona McIntosh from 2019-12-12T11:30

Set in Victorian times and the gem dealers in London, diamonds are the connection between an English heiress and a Zulu warrior in'The Diamond Hunter'by Fiona McIntosh.

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Robyn Annear and Christos Tsiolkas from 2019-11-28T11:30

'Nothing New'by Robyn Annear traces all things second hand: the history, the stigmas attached to it and the business that it continues to be.Christos Tsiolkas provides the reader with a unique sens...

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Anne Brinsden and Scott Westerfeld from 2019-11-21T11:30

What does it take to be a typical farming family in the Mallee? Youngest daughter Marjorie worries about her'nervy'mother and wants to keep it a family secret but do others have family secrets too?...

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Garry Disher and Mary Moody from 2019-11-14T11:30

It's suprising the extent of crime one can find in a country town. Garry Disher's,'Peace', builds in intensity as seemingly trivial crimes and incidents investigated by a rural cop'lead to more far...

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Vikki Wakefield and Mark Smith from 2019-10-31T11:30

Nate is in a dysfunctional family, he is not a hero but author Vikki Wakefield gives him an honesty which is both funny and heartbreaking in'This is How We Change The World'.'Land of Fences'is the ...

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Anna Krien and Ender Baskan from 2019-10-24T11:30

Anna Krien draws parrallels between the lives and situations of her characters in'Act of Grace', that show how close we are as a global community and how our actions ripple through neighbourhooods ...

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Lucy Treloar and Elliot Perlman from 2019-10-17T11:30

Lucy Treloar conjurs a physical and emotional landscape in her novel'Wolfe Island'that speaks of a looming personal and moral displacement in society.With the seriousness of sexual harassment and c...

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Amanda Niehaus - The Breeding Season from 2019-10-10T11:30

Amanda Niehaus juxtaposes the scientific and the emotional, the expextations of the natural world against the mores of cultural propriety, in her novel, The Breeding Season, in which the characters...

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Francesca Rendle-Short and Astrid Scholte from 2019-09-26T11:30

'The Near and the Far - Volume 2'has over 20 writers from the Pacific region contributing, with Francesca Rendle-Short telling us about the WrICE project.Astrid Scholte's imaginary kingdom is divid...

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Josephine Rowe and Barry Heard from 2019-09-19T11:30

'Here Until August'is a short story collection by Josephine Rowe with characters from many countries, on the verge of pivotal decisions.Deception and Vietnam War coding are central to Barry Heard's...

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Claire Coleman and Jane Sullivan from 2019-09-12T11:30

Past, present and future are combined in Claire Coleman's dystopian novel,'The Old Lie', where we see colonialism reimagined in a galactic war.What were your favourite books as a child? Was it char...

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Vikki Pertaitis and Chloe Higgins from 2019-08-29T11:30

Vikki Pertaitis is a'true-crime'writer. Her accounts of actual crimes in'Inside the Law - 25 years of True Crime Writing'will shock and amaze.'The best writing is the hard writing, the honest writi...

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Sarah Bailey and Marieke Hardy from 2019-08-22T11:30

Sarah Bailey writes about Detective Gemma Woodstock again in'Where the Dead Go'. Will her personal problems interfere with her investigation of a missing girl and a murdered boyfriend?Marieke Hardy...

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Mel Campbell, Anthony Morris and Meg Mundell from 2019-08-15T11:30

'The Trespassers'by Meg Mundell, is a thought provoking thriller set on an ill-fated migrant ship coming to Australia.Mel Campbell and Anthony Morris delve into the absurdity of reality television ...

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Kerry Cue and Philip Salom from 2019-07-25T11:30

Kerry Cue writes about how to set up a salon. It is like a book club without books, instead tales are told of love and loss with the growth of self identity. Some of the real-life stories are in'Th...

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Angela Savage and Alice Bishop from 2019-07-18T11:30

Angela Savage takes us on an intriquing journey into the financial and ethical issues associated with fertitlity in her novel,'Mother of Pearl'.Black Saturday was a firestorm situation happening 10...

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Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios and Jay Kristoff from 2019-06-27T11:30

A world at the brink of war, a sinister conspiracy, a race to find a secret treasure, all with an archelogical bent, in'The Emerald Tablet'by Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios.'Deviate'has author Jay Krist...

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R.W.R. McDonald and Alex Rance from 2019-06-20T11:30

Families come in all shapes and sizes as does humour. R.W.R. McDonald gives us gays, a headless body and a feisty 11 year old detective in'The Nancys'.Alex Rance talks football, education and also ...

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Radiothon program with Barry Scott from 2019-06-13T11:30

Barry Scott talks about small indendent publishing company,'Transit Lounge'. Being our Radiothon program we are asking and acknowledging listeners who have donated to Published or Not. You still ca...

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Elizabeth Kuiper and Sophie Cunningham from 2019-05-30T11:30

'Little Stones'reveals the post colonial world of Zimbabwe through the eyes of an eleven year old girl who is negotiating her parents'divorce and the social upheaval around her. A University fo Que...

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Judith Brett and Melanie Cheng from 2019-05-23T11:30

'From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting'is a fascinating book by Judith Brett, released by Text Publishing.Melanie Cheng highlights the social and cultural for...

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Wayne Marshall and Amra Pajalic from 2019-05-16T11:30

Wayne Marshall's debut short story collection,'Shirl', was a runner-up in the 2019 Victorian Premier Awards'Unpublished Manuscript Competition, and will be published by Affirm Press in early 2020.A...

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Wayne Macauley from 2019-04-25T11:30

'Simpson Returns'is a novella by Wayne Macauley that delves into the significance of the myths and tropes that shape our identity as a nation and how we may have lost sight of the values and meanin...

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Elizabeth Coleman and Sally Hepworth from 2019-04-18T11:30

A plagiarised romance novel titled Lost and Found Heart is also a clever pun in Elizabeth Coleman's very humorous,'Lost the Plot'.Mothers-in-law are much maligned. How much is deserved and how much...

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Virginia Duigan and Anna Ciddor from 2019-04-11T11:30

Does sex appeal come with a use by date? Virginia Duigan has a happily married woman of older years, testing this in'The Age of Discretion'.Anna Ciddor takes us on a nostalgic journey into the 60's...

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Mark Brandi and Miriam Sved from 2019-03-28T11:30

Mark Brandi takes us into the drug sub-culture of Melbourne in his latest novel,'The Rip'.The unsolved mysteries in the world of mathematics may cross all boundaries but will maths help to make or ...

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Peggy Frew from 2019-03-21T11:30

An island can be a holiday destination as well as a metaphor for social and family continuity, but it can also represent how isolated individuals can become. These actions are explored in Peggy Fr...

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Alison Evans and Andy Muir from 2019-03-14T11:30

'Highway Bodies'is a young-adult zombie-apocalypse novel by award-winning author Alison Evans.Crime is a caper in which the individual is often powerless. Such is the case for Lachie Munro, in Andy...

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Lilit Thwaites and Graeme Simsion from 2019-02-28T11:30

'The Librarian of Auschwitz'is a story of courage and hope, written in Spanish by Antonio Iturbe and translated by Lilit Thwaites.Don Tillman, the hero of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect, no...

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Karen Viggers and J P Pomere from 2019-02-21T11:30

Logging or tourism, parenting attitudes, control, good fiction and football all come into play in a small Tasmanian community with'The Orchardist's Daughter'by Karen Viggers.Identity, memory and ab...

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Kirsten Alexander and Jane Carswell from 2019-02-14T11:30

A son is lost, a child is found and a trial ensues in Kirsten Alexander's'Half Moon Lake'which questions if choice is prejudiced to the white and wealthy, set in America, 1913.Contemplative, Jane C...

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Emily Brewin - Small Blessings from 2019-01-31T11:30

Two worlds converge in Emily Brewin's,'Small Blessings'; the priviledged life of Isobel and Rosie's social poverty. Both, however, are blessed in ways they perhaps don't realize despite the challen...

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Anne Elder - a poet's life from 2019-01-24T11:30

The Anne Elder Award has been bestowed annually since 1977 to recognize the best first book of poetry by Australian writers. The anthology, The Bright and the Cold, compiled by her daughter Catheri...

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Holly Throsby and Margaret Morgan from 2019-01-17T11:30

Holly Throsby has another small town crime or mystery read. Two people come to'Cedar Valley'on the same day, one to find out about her mother, the other to die.Australia is divided. Those effected...

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Bill Jenkins and Rosalie Ham from 2018-12-13T11:30

Bill Jenkins explores the frailties, quirks and contradictions of individuals in his poetry collection, We Carry the Cave. As a psychologist,pastor and scientist, his perspective is both telling an...

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Jadan Carroll and Jane Harper from 2018-11-29T11:30

'(Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time'is a charming and humorous gift book by Jadan Carroll with illustrations by Molly Dyson.A death on a remote cattle station, murder or suicide, but why? Jane...

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Carrie Kablean and Chris Hammer from 2018-11-22T11:30

If you enjoyed Pride and Prejudice and wondered what happened to some of the characters, you will delight in'What Kitty Did Next'by Carrie Kablean.Chris Hammer takes us through the scorching landsc...

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Markus Zusak from 2018-11-15T11:30

"The mystery of how boys and brothers love"is at the very core and a quote from Markus Zusak's'Bridge of Clay'.

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Alec Patric and Ilka Tampke from 2018-10-25T11:30

Alec Patric delves into the impulses and desires driving individuals in his short story collection,'The Butcherbird Stories'.A woman, learned in spirtual ways, helps to lead the tribes fighting aga...

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Claire Varley and Bridie Jabour from 2018-10-18T11:30

Claire Varley has interconnected five characters in'The Book of Ordinary People'who by telling their own stories, or by hearing other's stories, learn more about themselves.It is always a perfect s...

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Maryrose Cuskelly from 2018-10-11T11:30

Maryrose Cuskelly explores the events, personalities and psychological impact of the murders that took place in the small rural Victorian town of Wedderburn in 2014. The book is entitled, Wedderbur...

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Les Zig and Mary Ryllis Clark from 2018-09-27T11:30

'August Falling'by Les Zig delves into the fraught nature of relationships and the challenges they represent.Nina Stanton chose 100 beautiful objects that related to her life and Mary Ryllis Clark ...

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Stuart Kells and Martine Murray from 2018-09-20T11:30

Stuart Kells investigates the controversy surrounding the authorship of Shakespeare's works in'Shakespeare's Library'.It is the entire family that undergoes change in'The Last Summer of Ada Bloom'b...

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Adam Wakeling and Sally Piper from 2018-09-13T11:30

There can never be justice after a war as Adam Wakeling's account of the Pacific War Crimes Trials in his work,'Stern Justice'so aptly illustrates.Three women redo a 5 day trek that they did 20 yea...

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Ted Todd and Fiona Patten from 2018-08-30T11:30

Ted Todd has written short stories about dating from a male perspective in'Fifty Something Male'and'A Doubtful Inheritance'is his autobiofiction as Tibor Weisz. The title says it all -'Sex, Drugs ...

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Sandi Wallace and Lili Wilkinson from 2018-08-23T11:30

'Into the Fog'by Sandi Wallace is a new rural crime thriller with a wild storm, a long way from home and three missing children.What lengths will you go to if your survival is at stake? Lili Wilkin...

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Marieke Hardy and Cher Chidzey from 2018-08-16T11:30

Debut director, Marieke Hardy, talks about this year's Melbourne Writers Festival, themed - a matter of life and death.Cher Chidzey's book'Ken's Quest'has opinionated Ken wanting to live and work i...

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James Cristina and Jill Giese from 2018-07-26T11:30

The nature of narrative is exposed in'Antidote to a Curse', an intriguing novel by James Cristina whose protagonist waits upon a HIV diagnosis.True characters give us an insight into the Victorian ...

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Alison Booth and Peter Cotton from 2018-07-19T11:30

Alison Booth's,'A Perfect Marriage', has domestic violence at the centre but love, loss, friendship and honesty help to heal the hurt.Peter Cotton's,'Dead Heat'begins with a domestic murder but soo...

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Gwenda Beed Davey and Jacqui Horwood from 2018-07-12T11:30

Ten Women tell their stories in Gwenda Beed Davey's'Girl Talk: One Hundred Years of Australian Childhood'.Jacqui Horwood from Sisters-in-Crime talks about the upcoming Davitt Awards.

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Lisa Ireland and Kate van Hooft from 2018-06-28T11:30

Who is your best friend and why? In'The Art of Friendship'Lisa Ireland writes about two women who share a histroy but question whether they should continue with their friendship. Trauma is seen thr...

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Sarah Bailey and Clare Strahan from 2018-06-21T11:30

A brazen murder with hundreds of witnesses takes place on the streets of Melbourne, in Sarah Bailey's crime novel'Into the Night'.Clare Strahan tackles the challenging topic of adolescent sexuality...

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Radiothon with Izzy Roberts-Orr from 2018-06-14T11:30

The Emerging Writers Festival Artistic Director, Izzy Roberts-Orr, highlighted the interests and challenges of running this festival for the new creative voices in the community during our Radioth...

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Megan Goldin and Enza Gandolfo from 2018-05-31T11:30

Megan Goldin’s novel, The Escape Room, delves into the murky world of finance where people are literally prepared to murder to make money. But what happens when some of those corrupt executives bec...

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Sue Williams and Glenda Guest from 2018-05-24T11:30

Just how does a woman operating a fish and chip shop in rural Australia become a private detective influencing commercial development in Australia? Sue Williams shows us how in the amusing'Live and...

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Jay Kristoff and Yvonne Fein from 2018-05-17T11:30

Award-winning and NY Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff's latest riveting young adult sci-fi novel is LIFEL1K3 (Lifelike), published by Allen&Unwin.Yvonne Fein takes us into the layered intensit...

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Peter FitzSimons and Vikki Petraitis from 2018-05-10T11:30

The orchestration of Monash's battle at Le Hamel in France is compellingly detailed in Monash's Masterpiece by Peter FitzSimons, published by Hachette Australia.Once A Copper: The Life and Times of...

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Brendan Lawley and Fiona Lowe from 2018-04-26T11:30

'Bonesland'by Brendan Lawley, takes us on an adolescent journey full of testosterone trauma.An extended family is tangled together by a wealthy inheritance, secrets, simmering childhood rivalry and...

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Michelle Scott Tucker and Robert Hillman from 2018-04-19T11:30

Michelle Scott Tucker has written the biography of an ordinagry English country woman who fell in love with a difficult man and came with him to New South Wales in 1790 in'Elizabeth Macarthur; A li...

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Michael Mohammed Ahmad from 2018-04-12T11:30

An extended interview with Michael Mohammed Ahmad about his novel, The Lebs, which illustrates the struggles of Bani Adam who is coming to terms with his sexual and cultural identity in the Austral...

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Rodney Hall and Robert Lukins from 2018-03-29T11:30

Rodney Hall explores the self-imposed shackles and constraints of society in'A Stolen Season'.'The Everlasting Sunday'by Robert Lukins has boys in trouble, learning about surviving, not just agains...

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Katherine Kovacic and Ada Langton from 2018-03-22T11:30

Investigate the death of an aspiring writer in Katherine Kovacic's,'The Portrait of Molly Dean'.The tragedy of war, the power of hope and all sorts of love are at the heart of Ada Langton's novel'T...

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Mike McCoy and Gert Loveday from 2018-03-15T11:30

'What the Light Reveals'by Mike McCoy delves into identity and allegiances in the Cold War era of Australia's past.Gert Loveday is the author of'Writing is Easy'and also the humourous invention of ...

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James Phelan and Shokoofeh Azar from 2018-02-22T11:30

Intrigue, espionage and a global threat are at the heart of James Phelan's'The Agency'.The revolution in Iran is combined with magic realism in'The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree'beautifully w...

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Lynette Washington from 2018-02-15T11:30

There are countless stories to be found behind each door of a single street as Lynette Washington discovers in'Plane Tree Drive'.

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Nadia Wright and Kate Murdoch from 2018-01-25T11:30

Nadia Wright explores the myth of Raffles and the contribution of William Farquhar in her account,'William Farquhar and Singapore'.Medieval Italy is the setting for Kate Murdoch's'Stone Circle'with...

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James Button from 2018-01-18T11:30

Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business is a"masterpiece"memoir written by James Button, first published by Melbourne University Press in 2012, followed by a revised edition in 2013.James Button...

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Joel Martin and Gordon Thompson from 2018-01-11T11:30

Joel Martin is the organiser of the inaugural'Speculate'festival of speculative fiction, being held on 28 April 2018 at the Gasworks Arts Park in Albert Park, Melbourne. For more info, visit: SpecF...

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Patti Miller and Sheridan Jobbins from 2017-12-28T11:30

Patti Miller's authoritative book on life writing is'Writing True Stories: The Complete Guide to Writing Autobiography, Memoir, Personal Essay, Biography, Travel and Creative Nonfiction', published...

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Carmel Bird from 2017-12-21T11:30

Carmel Bird's latest collection of stories is'The Dead Aviatrix: Eight Short Stories', published by Spineless Wonders. Available exclusively as an ebook.

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Rachel Matthews and Carole Poustie from 2017-12-14T11:30

'Siren'by Rachel Matthews is a compelling account of sexual exploration and the associated misunderstandings, published by Transit Lounge. (Replayed 2017 highlight from August.)'In The Dark'is a ch...

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Judith Buckrich and Tess Evans from 2017-11-30T11:30

The vibrant life and history of Acland Street is revealed in Judith Buckrich's'Ackland Steet - The Grand Lady of St Kilda'.Tess Evans has written with humour about the community of a small Australi...

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Maree Cootes and Jock Serong from 2017-11-23T11:30

A bird teaching about building design!'Robin Boid: Architect'is a delightfully creative picture story book by Maree Cootes.The criminal and ethical implications of Australia's soverign border polic...

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Sandi Wallace and Phillip Adams from 2017-11-16T11:30

Sandi Wallace writes about the highs and lows of cops on the job, in short stories'On The Job'and rural crime in'Dead Again'.'Insights and Reflections'is a selection of articles from Phillip Adams ...

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Cass Moriarty and Lucy Sussex from 2017-10-26T11:30

Would you write letters of regret or revenge as your 'Parting Words'? Cass Moriarty has a family learning about their father through letters he has left.Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travelled to...

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Fiona Wood and Claire Aman from 2017-10-19T11:30

Fiona Wood joins with Cath Crowley and Simmone Howell for'Take Three Girls, a story of school age friendships surviving toxic websitesClaire Aman's short story collection,'Bird Country'beguiles, en...

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Graeme Simsion, Anne Buist and Michelle de Kretser from 2017-10-12T11:30

Both redemption and romance can be found on Spain's Camino in'Two Steps Forward'by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion.There are five self contained stories introducing a variety of characters and lives,...

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Bram Presser and T R Thompson from 2017-09-28T11:30

Bram Presser's'The Book of Dirt'delves into Jewish tradition and the struggle of assimilating the past.'The Blood within the Stone'is the first book in the Wraith Cycle of mind control and power at...

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Lisa Bigelow and Mark Smith from 2017-09-21T11:30

'We That Are Left'tells how some wives deal with their hopes, dreams and outcomes from a war, by Lisa Bigelow.Set in the near future,'Widler Country'has the themes of asylum and violence in a conti...

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Sofie Laguna and Stuart Kells from 2017-09-14T11:30

We see the challenging life around Justine through her young eyes in Sofie Laguna's'The Choke'.'The Library: A calalogue of Wonders'is authored by Stuart Kells and is published by Text Publishing.

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Chris Womersley and Emma Viskic from 2017-08-31T11:30

Superstition, faith and witchcraft all feature in Chris Womersley's'City of Crows'set in 1673 Paris.Emma Viskic has Caleb Zelik, deaf investigator, m doing his best to find out who is commi...

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Rachel Leary and Jessica Alice from 2017-08-24T11:30

Rachel Leary's,'Bridget Crack', is a convict struggling for survival in the township and wilderness of Van Dieman's Land. Jessica Alice provides an overview of the authors and events in the 2017 Me...

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Kylie Ladd and Vikki Wakefield from 2017-08-17T11:30

Charlie was missing for three months, will the abuse warp her for the rest of her life? Family complexities are at the forefront in'The Way Back'by Kylie Ladd.Dangerous challenges and unexplained e...

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Robert Power and Jennifer Down from 2017-08-10T11:30

'Tell it to the Dog'is Robert Power's memoir that provides an unusaul take on memory and reflection and how these elements shape a life. Jennifer Down has death as a connection in the 14 short stor...

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Alan Brough with Euan Mitchell and Mark Baker with David McLean from 2017-07-27T11:30

Alan Brough's,'Charlie and the Karaoke Cockroaches', continues the delightfully entertaining series and includes an insect orchestra.Mark Baker's memoir,'Thirty Days', utilizes the Jewish tradition...

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Dennis Glover and Cassie Lane from 2017-07-20T11:30

Dennis Glover has fictionalized the life of George Orwell and recounted how the classic dystopian novel,'1984', came to be written.'How to Dress a Dummy'is a frank and funny book by former internat...

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Melanie Cheng and Iain Ryan from 2017-07-13T11:30

Melanie Cheng's award-winning collection of short fiction, Australia Day, is published by Text Publishing.Iain Ryan's noir journey, The Student, explores the criminal potential in every university ...

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Megan Goldin and Vivienne Kelly from 2017-06-29T11:30

False memories can play havoc with a murder investigation making Megan Goldin's'The Girl in Keller's Way', an intriguing psychological thriller.Can you blame King Arthur or the Hawthorn Football Cl...

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Gabrielle Williams and Katherine Boland from 2017-06-22T11:30

The digital world is fraught with challenges especially if your adolescent comments go viral. Gabrielle Williams explores the fallout from such an event in her novel,'My Life as a Hashtag'.Katheri...

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Jenevieve Chang from 2017-06-15T11:30

Jenevieve Chang's,"The Good Girl of Chinatown"is a memoir that takes us on Jenevieve's journey to the land of her ancestors, China, with its growing demand for all things European including the wor...

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Sarah Bailey and Nicolas Brasch from 2017-05-25T11:30

'The Dark Lake'is a murder mystery by Sarah Bailey set in a small Australian country town. It is part psychological intrigue with a very flawed female detective and a victim with a dubious past. An...

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Marija Pericic and Kate Larsen from 2017-05-18T11:30

The Vogel Award winner, Marija Pericic, talks about her novel, The Lost Pages, which not only delves into one of the contemporary world's literary controversies regarding Franz Kafka and Max Brod b...

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Bernadette Brennan and Louise Wilson from 2017-05-11T11:30

Bernadette Brennan shines a light on five decades of writing by one of Australia's most important authors in'A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work'. Published by Text Publishing.'Margaret Flock...

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David Cohen and Lia Hills from 2017-04-27T11:30

Self storage facilities are the answer for our excess property, but are these storage facilities for the soul? Find out more in David Cohen's,'Disappearing off the Face of the Earth'.Lia Hills'nove...

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Steph Bowe and Bruce Pascoe from 2017-04-20T11:30

Bruce Pascoe's book Mrs Whitlam is fiction for young readers (shorlisted for CBCA 2017 awards), which follows the adventures of Marnie Clark after she acquires a horse named Mrs Whitlam. A Magabala...

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Bren McDibble and Paul Collins from 2017-04-13T11:30

'How to Bee'is a journey into the near fuure where real bees are extinct. It is written by Bren McDibble.Bullying, teachers, single parents, Henry Lawson and dogs are part of'Harry Kruize, Born to...

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Kirsty Manning and Peter Polites from 2017-03-30T11:30

Two women who share a love of herbs, but in different places and times is just one of the topics in Kirsty Manning's wonderful debut novel'The Midsummer Garden'.Peter Polites takes us on a noir jou...

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Frank Moorhouse and Sally van Gent from 2017-03-23T11:30

Frank Moorhouse talks about the life of a writer in his Meanjin essay'Is Writing Still a Way of Life'.Sally van Gent has drawn sketches that enhance the writing of her life's most significant memor...

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R. D. Gennari and Phil Day from 2017-03-16T11:30

R. D. Gennari has a Sci Fi fantasy series,'Battle for Skeptron, The First Uncovering'is the first, set in the land of Numaria.'a chink in a daisy-chain'is Phil Day's divertisment down several rabbi...

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Lesley Truffle and Carmel Shute from 2017-02-23T11:30

Sasha's antics will have you laughing and her pastries will also give you pleasure in Lesley Truffle's'The Scandalous Life of Sasha Torte'.Carmel Shute talks about a Sisters-in-Crime event and how ...

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Caroline Miley and Lorina Hastings from 2017-02-16T11:30

Caroline Miley, is an art historian and writes convincingly about an artist's life and difficult times in Georgian England in'The Competition'.Lorina Hastings is one of 50 writers from around the w...

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Nick Earls - Wisdom Tree from 2016-12-22T11:30

Wisdom Tree is a collection of five novellas by Nick Earls released by publisher, Inkerman and Blunt. Neither short stories nor novels, these pieces allow for a more extended development of charact...

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Tom Keneally and the Catholic Church from 2016-12-15T11:30

'Crimes of the Father'is, ostensibly, a simple story of a priest returning home but the implications and ramifications of his visit leads to an investigation of the institutional malaise within the...

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Kimberley Starr and Fiona McIntosh from 2016-11-24T11:30

Kimberley Starr takes us on a medieval journey of crusades and demons in'The Book of Whispers'.Chocolate, Quakers, WW1 and romance all mixed together for another well researched fictional story by ...

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Lee Zachariah from 2016-11-17T11:30

'Double Dissolution'is a memoir of Australia's recent federal election set against the backdrop of Lee Zachariah's faltering marriage.

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Brett Pierce and Cath Crowley from 2016-11-10T11:30

'Beyond the Vapour Trail'is Brett Pierce's memoir of life as an aid worker in some extremely challenging parts of the world.Second hand bookshops are full of mysteries and Cath Crowley has given us...

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Di Morrissey and Duncan McNab from 2016-10-27T11:30

Di Morrissey has her main character starting a new life, in a new country but with a family that has a tragic secret in'A Distant Journey'.Duncan McNab looks into the life and murders of one of Aus...

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Ellen van Neerven and Kristel Thornell from 2016-10-20T11:30

The indigenous poet, Ellen van Neerven, talks about her collection,'Comfort Food'.Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926.'On the Blue Train'is Kristel Thornell's novel of what may have hap...

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Tania Chandler and Cenarth Fox from 2016-10-13T11:30

Tania Chandler has entwined a murder mystery and a domestic drama in 'Death in the water'.'Cassocked Savage'is Cenarth Fox's account of the life of Patrick Bronte.

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Hannah Kent talks about'The Good People' from 2016-09-29T11:30

Hannah Kent's latest novel, The Good People, takes us on a journey into the world of superstition and folk lore to be found in an isolated Irish community of 1825 where changelings and fairies abo...

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David Carlin and Georgina Arnott from 2016-09-22T11:30

David Carlin is one of the co-directors of the WrICE program and one of 21 Asian and Pacific authors in the collection'The Near and Far'.The world of the poet, Judith Wright, is explored in Georgin...

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Kate Mildenhall and Jacinta Halloran from 2016-09-15T11:30

Kate Mildenhall's,'Skylarking', explores the sexual awakening of two teenage girls on an isolated lighthouse post in colonial Australia.Genetics, art, twins and growing up through 1950's Melbourne ...

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Angela Flournoy from 2016-08-25T11:30

Angela Flournoy writes about the complications of a large family, especially when deciding what to do about their family home in'The Turner House'.

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Michelle Wright and Darrell Pitt from 2016-08-18T11:30

Michelle Wright's short story collection,'Fine'is a poetic evocation of love, loss and the joy of writing.Darrell Pitt mixes action and humour in a science fiction romp'A Toaster on Mars'.

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Lisa Dempster, Dallas Lyons and Aly Walsh from 2016-08-11T11:30

Exciting times in Melbourne as the 2016 Writers Festival is about to begin. Lisa Dempster tells us all about it.Dallas Lyons talks about his children's book'The Night Guardians'and we all talk abou...

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Liane Moriarty and Zane Lovitt from 2016-07-28T11:30

What happened at the BBQ affects friendships and families in Liane Moriarty's'Truly, Madly, Guilty'.Zane Lovitt's'Black Teeth', is a murder mystery where the victim hasn't yet been dispatched and t...

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Leanne Davidson and Christine Wells from 2016-07-21T11:30

Alby is a guide dog in the three books of the'Alby and the Cat'series by Leanne Davidson. Christine Wells gives us romance across time in'The Wife's Tale'.

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The Road to Winter from 2016-07-14T11:30

Mark Smith's first novel, The Road to Winter, is a fast paced story of survival set in the not too distant future. It's a guaranteed page turner or your money back.

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Nick Richardson and Rebecca Ryan from 2016-06-30T11:30

Nick Richardson explores the power and influence of sport during the great conflict of World War 1 in'The Game of Their Lives'.Rebecca Ryan has written about simple ideas on how to meditate which a...

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Zana Fraillon and Sue Williams from 2016-06-23T11:30

Zana Fraillon's,'The Bone Sparrow', is a heart rending story of what happens to asylum seekers incarcerated in detention centers.'Dead Men don't order Flake'is another of Sue Williams humourous cri...

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Two Decades Naked from 2016-05-26T11:30

'Two Decades Naked'is Leigh Hopkinson's memoir about her two decades working as a stripper in Australia and overseas. It provides an interesting insight into an industry normally not discussed.

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Lesley Truffle from 2016-05-19T11:30

Indulge in'The Hotel Du Barry'- a novwl of 1920's manners and decadence by Lesley Truffle.

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Arnold Zable from 2016-05-12T11:30

Arnold Zable takes us ino the boxing ring of life in'The Fighter'.

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David Metzenthen - Dreaming the Enemy from 2016-04-28T11:30

There are many perspectives possible when writing about conflict; the hero's as well as the enemy's. David provides both views in'Dreaming the Enemy'.

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Mark Lemprell and Kat Patrick from 2016-04-21T11:30

Explore love and the delights of Rome in Mark Lemprell's novel,'A Lovers'Guide to Rome'.Kat Patrick has listed the loves and amusing truths in'I Am Doodle Cat', illustrated by Laureen Marriott and ...

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Damon Young and David Dyer from 2016-04-14T11:30

In'The Art of Reading'Damon Young writes about curiosity, courage and patience being just a few of the dispositions necessary for a good reader.The role of The Californian in the Titanic tragedy re...

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Reka Kaponay from 2016-03-31T11:30

The truth about a dog being man's best friend is behind Reka Kaponay's supernatural story of nightmares,'Dawn of the Guardian'.

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Aoife Clifford from 2016-03-24T11:30

Aoife Clifford has set'All these Perfect Strangers'in a university, with new friends to be made, secrets to be hidden and murders. A morally complex page turner.

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Jennifer Down and Ruth Clare from 2016-03-17T11:30

The effect of suicide on best friends is at the heart of Jennifer Down's'Our Magic Hour'.Ruth Clare's'Enemy'looks at how her father brought the Vietnam War home.

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Tess Evans from 2016-03-10T11:30

How much does Angie, a single mother manipulate George an elderly widower? Tess Evans'Mercy Street'is a book about love, loss and loneliness

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Hugo Race and Fiona McFarlane from 2016-02-25T11:30

Hugo Race takes us on a journey through music, time and history in his reminiscence,'Road Series', and provides insights about life as a musician.Fiona McFarlane has characters reviewing themselves...

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Barry Jones from 2016-02-18T11:30

Barry Jones takes us on a journey of the great classical works of music and literature in a book that spans several ages and continents.

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C.S. Pacat and Kathryn Ledson from 2016-02-11T11:30

'Kings Rising'is the third installment in C.S. Pacat's Captive Prince trilogy.Erica Jewel is Kathryn Ledson's creation and in her third crime novel, 'Grand Slam', she protects the number one seed a...

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Leanne Hall from 2016-01-28T11:30

We journey into a surreal world in Leanne Hall's adolescent novel,'Iris and the Tiger'.

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Journeys Real and Imagined from 2016-01-21T11:30

Mary Parker's,'Fairy tales Written by Rabbits', is an allegorical tale that blends reality and fantasy. The journey of Heath and Millet is one of discovering identity.Anne Brown's,'Wimmera Journeys...

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Geraldine Brooks from 2015-12-17T11:30

'The Secret Chord'is a contemporary imagining of the life of the biblical King David. Geraldine Brooks recounts his life through the eyes of Nathan the prophet who is tantalizingly mentioned in the...

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Tony Park and Steve Tolz from 2015-12-10T11:30

Tony Park has set a fast and furious adventure in Namibia with rhinoceros horn being at the centre of the drama in'An Empty Coast'.Steve Tolz takes us on a writer's journey in'Quicksand'.

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Nicki Reed and Roland Perry from 2015-11-26T11:30

If you loved somebody, why would you want a 12 month separation and a divorce?'Unmarry me'is an amusing novel by Nicki Reed.What virtue lies in assassination? Read Roland Perry's,'The Honourable As...

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Sonja Dechian and Di Morrissey from 2015-11-19T11:30

Sonja Dechian's,'An Astronauts's Life'is a short story collection exploring social issues and different realities.Cooktown has had an interesting history and is the setting of Di Morrissey's'Rain M...

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Robert Powers and J.M.Green from 2015-11-12T11:30

Robert Power's'Tidetown'is an allegorical tale containing multiple characters encounting the travails of life.Drugs, laundered money and the mining boom, how are they connected? Debut crime novelis...

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Amie Kaufman with Jay Kristoff and Charlotte Wood from 2015-10-29T11:30

Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff take us on a narrative and graphic journey into the future in'Illuminae'.In'The Natural Way Of Things', Charlotte Wood has 10 women imprisoned, why and how they cope w...

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Fiona Wood and Tony Birch from 2015-10-22T11:30

Fiona Wood's book'Cloudwish'is told through a Vietnamese school girl as she learns about herself: scholarship winner, dutiful daughter, artist with beautiful Caucasian boyfriend. Is it really true...

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Paul Dalgarno and Shirley Barrett from 2015-10-15T11:30

Paul Dalgarno faces the challenges of relocation, employment, marriage and children in his memoir,'And You May Find Yourself'.Shirley Barrett gives the true story of whales and whalers from Twofold...

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Lesley and Tammy Williams and Jenny Ackland from 2015-09-24T11:30

Lesley and Tammy Williams tell about their lives with each achieving so much from the United Nations, Michael Jackson and the Queensland Parliament.Jenny Ackland's'The Secret Son'links Ned Kelly an...

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Tania Chandler and Cassandra Atherton from 2015-09-17T11:30

Tania Chandler has written a pschological thriller, a domestic noir ripper with'Please Don't Leave Me Here'Cassandra Atherton's prose poetry is a delightful diversion in'Trace'.

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Marion Halligan and Annitta S.W. from 2015-09-10T11:30

William dies suddenly and secrets are revealed about him which effect all who love him, in Marion Halligan's'Goodbye Sweetheart'.Annitta S.W. has written about her son and friends growing up with t...

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Eka Kurniawan and Antonia Hayes from 2015-08-27T11:30

Eka Kurniawan has written about Indonesia's political and cultural history in the epic, disguised as a family saga,'Beauty is a Wound'. It is written very cleverly and is most readable even the gho...

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Penny Hueston and Lisa Dempster from 2015-08-20T11:30

Penny Hueston talks about the translating of'The Little Jewel', a book written by Patrick Modiano. A French writer and winner of 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature. Lisa Dempster talks about some of ...

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Honey Brown and Joel Deane from 2015-08-13T11:30

Honey Brown has six interconnecting short stories with six different couplings of sex in a most readable and enjoyable'Six Degrees'.Joel Deane documents the power plays and personalitiies of the Br...

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Sophie Laguna and Lucy Treloar from 2015-07-30T11:30

Sophie Laguna follows up from an earlier interview on Published or Not having won the Miles Franklin Award for her novel,'The Eye of the Sheep'.The South Australian coastal area of Coorong, is the ...

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Tegan Bennett Daylight from 2015-07-23T11:30

Tegan Bennett Daylight's'Six Bedrooms'are short stories of adolesent happenings but allow reflection from a more mature reader.

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Published...Or Not - Episode 201507161130 from 2015-07-16T11:30

Liam Pieper writes with humour about his eventful like in'Mistakes were made'. It is one of the Pengun Specials, designed to be read in a single sitting.Lisa Joy knows in real life what it is like...

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Fergus Hume and the Hansom Cab from 2015-06-25T11:30

Lucy Sussex's meticulously researched biography provides insights into author, Fergus Hume, and his novel, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, which became a world wide publishing phenomena.

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On Brunswick Ground from 2015-06-18T11:30

The contemporary challenges of women living in an ordinary suburb that has been touched by the spirit of Jill Meagher is the focus of'On Brunswick Ground'by Catherine de Saint Phalle. These are con...

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Radiothon 2015 from 2015-06-11T11:30

Published or Not is one of the many shows on 3CR that rely on donations to remain on air. Community radio plays an important role in keeping an independent voice on the airwaves. The discussion bet...

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The Life of Houses from 2015-05-28T11:30

The'Life of Houses'delves into the shared history of a mother and daughter who are both trying to reconcile themselves with each other and the future.

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Published Or Not - Spies and Moore from 2015-05-21T11:30

Peter Millett talks about the challenges of writing for nine year olds and the first instalment of his Johnny Danger spy series.Sam Twyford_Moore talks about the authors and events at this year's E...

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Jennifer Scoullar and Krissy Kneen from 2015-05-14T11:30

Jennifer Scoullar's'Turtle Reef'is a romance set in tropical Queensland.Krissy Kneen read a lot of erotic fiction and researched William Reich's orgone accumulator while writing'The Adventures of H...

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Crime novel by Anna Jaquiery. Autobiogrpahy by Maria Katsonis from 2015-04-30T11:30

Anna Jaquiery has'Death in the Rainy Season'another Commandant Morel, French detective novel, set in Cambodia.Maria Katsonis documents the challenges of her identity and depression in her autobiogr...

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Published...Or Not - Episode 201504231130 from 2015-04-23T11:30

'Captive Prince'is a groundbreaking fantasy by C.S. Pacat that challenges certain sexual taboos.Robert Verlander's'Of White and Shady'is set in Williamstown. This fun read covering secrets held for...

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Wendy Scarfe and historical fiction from 2015-04-16T11:30

Wendy Scarfe has written a historically compelling story set between wars involving depression, Communism, Port Adeliade and love.

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Published Or Not from 2015-03-26T11:30

Robert Gott's,'The Port Fairy Murders'is set in 1940's Victoria where social values and attitudes are exposed as wanting and where the body count mounts.James Bradley has set'Clade'into the future....

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Short stories and blogs from 2015-03-19T11:30

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