Final Draft - Great Conversations
Great conversations with authors from Australia and around the world.
Arts
Books
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Hilde Hinton’s The Opposite of Lonely
Hilde Hinton is the bestselling author of The Loudness of Unsaid Things, and A Solitary Walk on the Moon. Hilde is joining us today with her latest novel The Opposite of Lonely.
32 min
2
Book Club - Mandy Beaumont’s The Thrill of It
In the late 1980’s Sydney is a long way from the global city we know today. From the beach to the Mountains awash with fluro tracksuits, hypercolour t-shirts, thongs and walkmans the harbour city can still feel like a village in your own little patch  Emmerson gets to enjoys the best of it, with harbour views courtesy of a legacy from her grandmother, the socialite and designer Marlowe Kerr. But when the body of a woman in her eighties is discovered in the northern beaches the city will be thrown into chaos. Older residents lock themselves in their homes for fear the killer may strike again.  Emmerson herself is thrust back to another legacy of her adored grandmother. Marlowe was killed in a strikingly similar way. A case that was never solved.
4 min
3
Shelley Burr’s Vanish
Shelley Burr is the bestselling author of Wake and Ripper. Her debut Wake won the UK Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Award, the Australian Book Industry's Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and the Australian Crime Writers Association's Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction. Shelley’s joining Andrew today with her new novel Vanish
37 min
4
Book Club - Sinead Stubbins’ Stinkbug
The advertising agency where Edith works is going through a restructure. Everyone is worried that the new Swedish owners will bring their own team and they’ll be out of a job. When a select group are chosen for a corporate retreat Edith assumes that this is her chance to show her worth. The assignment is simple; find a best work friend. Easy for Edith, she’s already got Mo and so the retreat should be a piece of cake. I mean what could go wrong in a converted Convent watched over by a saint called Christina the Astonishing?!
3 min
5
Vijay Khurana’s The Passenger Seat
Vijay Khurana is a writer and translator from German. He’s joining Andrew with his debut novel, The Passenger Seat, which was shortlisted for the Novel Prize.
41 min
6
Laura Elvery’s Nightingale
Laura Elvery is the author of Trick of the Light and Ordinary Matter, which won the 2021 Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection. Laura’s joining Andrew today with her first novel Nightingale.
44 min
7
Gretchen Shirm's Out of the Woods
38 min
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Book Club - Vijay Khurana’s The Passenger Seat
Vijay Khurana is a writer and translator from German. His debut novel, The Passenger Seat, was shortlisted for the Novel Prize.
4 min
9
Book Club - Chris Flynn’s Orpheus Nine
4 min
10
Jane Caro's The Lyrebird
47 min
11
Book Club - Ann Dombroski’s After the Great Storm
3 min
12
Chris Flynn’s Orpheus Nine
Chris is the award winning author of Mammoth - the story of a loquacious fossil, The Glass Kingdom - a drug fueled romp through outback Australia and perhaps the strangest of all Here Be Leviathans - a collection of Monkey’s, Platypuses and Sabretooth Tigers working well outside their pay grade. Chris is back with his new novel Orpheus Nine
51 min
13
Caro Llewelyn’s Love Unedited
Caro Llewellyn is the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted memoir Diving into Glass, and has worked with writers in publishing and as a Festival Director and human rights advocate. Her new novel is Love Unedited
39 min
14
Book Club - Naima Brown’s Mother Tongue
When Brynn awakes from her coma her life is still the same picture of suburban idyll. It’s just Brynn doesn’t seem to fit it anymore. She speaks fluent French, a thing called Foreign Accent Syndrome, and English is an effort.
4 min
15
Rachael Johns The Bad Bridesmaid
Rachael Johns was an English teacher before making her dreams of becoming a novelist come true. Her book The Patterson Girls won the ABIA Award in 2016 for General Fiction and she has also won the prestigious Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award twice. Rachael is joining us today with her new novel The Bad Bridesmaid
50 min
16
Book Club - Karina May’s That Island Feeling
Andie is determined to help her best friend Taylor through her divorce. A week on Pearl Island is just the beginning. Andie has an itinerary designed to help them forget men and melt away all their dramas. Except that Andie certainly hasn’t prepared for double booked bucks parties to crash their house. She’s underwhelmed by her friend's immediate gravitation towards these overbearing men. This week is meant to be about the girls and so she definitely hasn’t planned for any handsome, barefoot boat captains to come paddleboarding her way.
3 min
17
Eileen Chong's We Speak of Flowers
We Speak of Flowers comprises 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, attempting to make sense of grief in the face of great pain.
48 min
18
Book Club - Andrea Goldsmith’s The Buried Life
3 min
19
Steve MinOn’s First Name Second Name
Steve MinOn is the winner of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer 2023. First Name Second Name is his first novel
30 min
20
Book Club - Diana Reid’s Signs of Damage
How could everything have gone so wrong? In the summer of 2008 the Kelly family are enjoying a holiday in the south of France. Bruce, Vanessa, their daughters Skye and Anika and Anika’s best friend Cass.The holiday seems something of an idyll until Cass goes missing. She is discovered hours later locked in an ancient icehouse but the question remains how?
4 min
21
Zane Lovitt’s The Body Next Door
Zane Lovitt is the award winning author of The Midnight Promise and Black Teeth
40 min
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Book Club - Steve MinOn’s First Name Second Name
Stephen Bolin lies in a coma in a Brisbane hospital. In the hours before his death Stephen awakens long enough to write a cryptic message to his sisters. They are to carry his body north to the town of their birth. Stephen’s sisters ignore this bizarre request and so some time later Stephen awakens in a mortuary, stiff with rigor mortis. His now dead brain animated by a single desire, to complete the trip north to Innisfail.
4 min
23
Vanessa McCausland's The Last Illusion of Paige...
Paige White's beautiful life is documented closely for her thousands of followers: lakeside picnics with her daughter, sunny afternoons in the family van, and romantic dinners with her husband. So when she posts an ominous image, and her body is shortly after discovered in the lake, everyone immediately wonders - suicide or foul play?
33 min
24
Catherine Jinks’ Panic
Catherine Jinks is the award winning author of more than forty books. Catherine’s new novel is Panic.
39 min
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Book Club - Eileen Chong's We Speak of Flowers
We Speak of Flowers comprises 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, attempting to make sense of grief in the face of great pain.
4 min