The Great Undoing offers up a speculative future where our endless drive for connectivity and security threatens to turn society on its head.
4 min
127
Sydney Writers Festival 2024 Program Launch wit...
SWF Artistic Director Ann Mossop joins Andrew to discuss the Sydney Writers Festival 2024 Program Launch
15 min
128
Book Club - David Brooks’ The other side of day...
Featuring a reading of David's poem An Invasion of Clouds
3 min
129
Mykaela Saunders’ Always Will Be
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.
43 min
130
Book Club - Sarah Sasson’s Tidelines
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.
3 min
131
Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival
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.
17 min
132
Book Club - Grace Chan’s Every Version of You
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?
4 min
133
Povo - The New Anthology from Sweatshop Western...
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.
39 min
134
Book Club - Robert Skinner’s I’d Rather Not
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.
4 min
135
Sarah Sasson's Tidelines
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.
46 min
136
Book Club - Eugen Bacon’s Serengotti
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.
4 min
137
A.W. Hammond’s The Berlin Traitor
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.
42 min
138
Randolf Stow's Tourmaline in the Australian Cla...
All Summer Long we are exploring great works in the Australian Classics Book Club. Today we look back to Randolf Stow's classic Tourmaline
28 min
139
Kate Jennings' Moral Hazard in the Australian C...
All Summer Long we are exploring great works in the Australian Classics Book Club. Today we look back to Kate Jennings' classic Moral Hazard
30 min
140
Amy Whitting's I for Isobel in the Australian C...
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
36 min
141
Robin Klein's Came Back to Show You I could Fly...
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
26 min
142
Boyd Oxlade's Death in Brunswick in the Austral...
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.
38 min
143
Criena Rohan's The Delinquents in the Australia...
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.
38 min
144
Madeleine St John's The Women in Black in the A...
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
32 min
145
Final Draft - Summer Sessions Preview
Tune in to discover the Final Draft - Australian Classics Book Club delivering you incredible classics all summer long!
2 min
146
Jack Heath's Kill Your Husbands
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.
42 min
147
Book Club - End of Year Wrap & Gift Guide
Andrew's top picks from the year of reading on Final Draft
4 min
148
Book Club - Lucy Treloar’s Days of Innocence an...
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.
3 min
149
Nicholas Jose’s The Idealist
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?
35 min
150
Book Club - Sara M Saleh’s The Flirtation of Gi...