Always Will Be carries the subtitle; Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed. The collection explores possible futures where First Nations sovereignty is both reclaimed, respected and offers a future for a fragile planet.

Unfolding across the years of their adolescence, Tidelines is the story of Grub and her family. Of her bond with her brother, and the different directions their lives took.

Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival is happening over four days in March. The festival celebrates the diverse expressions of First Nations writers and covers all genres from oral stories to epic novels and plays to poetry.

Tao-Yi and Navin have grown up in a world in decline and have watched as their existence moved into increasingly digital spaces. The world of Gaia began as a digital frontier but now it is the place where Tao-Yi works and socialises. Gaia’s immersive nature parallels the declines in Navin’s health until it seems there is little choice but for Navin to upload himself permanently into the system. What harm could it do?

Povo is the latest anthology from Sweatshop. Sweatshop is a literacy movement based in Western Sydney which is devoted to empowering culturally and linguistically diverse communities through reading, writing and critical thinking.

Arriving in the city, running a literary magazine from a corridor, sleeping in a swag in a ditch; these are not inherently entertaining things but flowing from the pen of Robert Skinner they are transformed into astute and often inscrutable insights into the human condition.

On a suburban street in the south of Sydney Grub waits in her car. In the house opposite lives the man who was her brother’s best friend. Grub is there to confront him. To finally wring from him the confession that her family’s life would have been better if he’d never entered it.

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of novels and short fiction. Her fantasy writing has won a British Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for amongst others the World Fantasy awards and the Aurealis. Today I’m bringing you her latest novel Serengotti.

A.W. Hammond is the author of The Paris Collaborator and today we are seeing a return of his hero Auguste Duchene in The Berlin Traitor.

All Summer Long we are exploring great works in the Australian Classics Book Club. Today we look back to Randolf Stow's classic Tourmaline

All Summer Long we are exploring great works in the Australian Classics Book Club. Today we look back to Kate Jennings' classic Moral Hazard

All Summer Long we are exploring great works in the Australian Classics Book Club. Today we are taking a look at Amy Whitting's classic I for Isobel

All summer long discover incredible writers in the Australian Classics Book Club. This week we feature Robin Klein's Came Back to Show You I could Fly

All summer long we are exploring great works in the Australian Classics Book Club. Today on the show we look at Boyd Oxlade's darkly comic Death in Brunswick.

All summer long we are diving back into the archives and exploring great work's of Australian Writing. Today it's Criena Rohan's The Delinquents in the Australian Classics Book Club.

All across the summer we are looking back into the archives and discovering great works of Australian writing. Today it's Madeleine St John's The Women in Black in the Australian Classics Book Club

Tune in to discover the Final Draft - Australian Classics Book Club delivering you incredible classics all summer long!

It’s hard to find a chance to disconnect and relax in our modern world. When six friends get a weekend away in the woods it seems like the perfect opportunity to let their hair down. Couple swapping may not be the most conventional way to unwind but when everyone agrees the scene is set for a wild night. That is until one of the six turns up dead and the race is on to discover the killer before they strike again.

Andrew's top picks from the year of reading on Final Draft

Till is on the run from life, taking to the open road in a quest to keep moving, getting as far as possible from where she’s been. It is the project of a lifetime, ever since Till’s best friend was snatched off the street when they were young. Driving far from Melbourne, inland and away from the familiar. Till doesn’t know what she’s looking for… Yet.

Jake Treweek, is found dead in his Washington home. Officially it has been ruled a suicide but Jake’s widow Anne isn’t convinced. Jake has been working gathering intelligence in East Timor. The country is boiling under Indonesian occupation and calls for an independence referendum. Jake is always tight lipped but Anne knows he’d discovered something. Was it something that cost him his life?

Mirandi Riwoe is an acclaimed author of historical fiction. Her novel Stone Sky Gold Mountain won the 2020 Queensland Literary Award. Mirandi’s new novel Sunbirds.

Edenglassie is a thought provoking, disarming and at times hilarious novel. Through the contrasting narratives Lucashenko effectively overthrows simplistic views of early colonial interventions and reclaims the story on behalf of the people whose land was stolen.

Tony Birch is the author of novels, poetry and short fiction. You’ve met him on the show before with his collection Dark as Last Night which won the Steele Rudd award at the Queensland Literary Awards. Today Tony is joining us with his new novel Women & Children.