Novelist J B Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. For days they sail in the sun. They lie about drinking, reading, sleeping, having sex. Patrick is a legendary ...
Good Reading Podcast
Book talk and author interviews to help you discover your next favourite read.
In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford ...
Tanya Plibersek was elected to federal parliament aged just twenty-eight, and has lived almost half her life in the public eye. She is the longest-serving woman in Australia’s House of Representatives. But how much ...
Centering on St. Joseph's, a Catholic orphanage in Vermont, Christine Kenneally shares the stories of survivors who have fought to expose the truth, and hold the powerful - many of them Catholic priests and nuns - ...
In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Oombulgurri people at Forrest River in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence descended. Witnesses vanished. ...
Everyone pays a premium to live in Esperance. The wealthy community of Esperance is picture-perfect. Big houses, stunning views, beautiful people. A brand new running track for the local club to jog around in the ...
The British Navy, the largest in the world, is for the first time in a century under serious threat. World War 1 is imminent. Three very different characters converge to change the course of history.
The eminent ...
New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who ...
Chronic pain is a major cause of human suffering. Yet pain that persists for three months or more is often unrelated to any physical injury. So why does it still hurt? Research over the last few decades shows that ...
The Australian Autism Handbook is the go-to guide for parents whose children have been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. It is a practical and comprehensive guide to every aspect of raising an ASD child, ...
The Smash Hits Nick vs The World is the life and times of tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios. He has as unconventional playing style, constant battles with authority and a knack for bad behaviour. With an uncontrollable ...
In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to James Weir about why satire is the only way to write about reality TV
In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Jack Heath about somehow making a cannibalistic antihero likeable and his fascination for science fiction.
Frank Bongiorno discusses the nature of indigenous politics before colonisation and the early figures and institutions that still impact the way we live.
Anita Heiss talks bringing together this collection of short stories from Wiradjuri Elders with the common values of family, care, friendship and fun.
Don Watson discusses his fifty-year friendship with Neville White and the moment he began to advocate for a nation of people struggling with competing demands.
In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Tom Keneally about how historical fiction can add new perspectives on where we've come from individually and as a nation.
Katrina Nannestad talks turning a true story into an award-winning novel for children and how she used stories of war that children can relate to.
In this episode author and illustrator Jennifer Whelan and educational psychologist Deirdre Brandner talk about the need to address troubling emotions in kids.
In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Allen C Jones about how his experimental approach to poetry and prose became a page-turning thriller novel.
In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Paddy Manning about Lachlan Murdoch's early life in a family where business and family were inextricably linked.
In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Inga Simpson about the miracle timber that is white willow and the glory and tragedy of a life in cricket.
In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats with Janet Evanovich about how the shaping of the Stephanie Plum character became a long-term project.
K2 O'Hero is a seemingly ordinary boy from a truly extraordinary family - he and his twin sister Izzabird have been sworn to keep their family's history of magical explorers a secret. Not even their infuriating ...
Twelve-year-old Billy Pyke has a talent for sorting things out, whether it’s his chaotic family home or the busy book stall at Paddy’s Market. In 1871, the market is the loud, smelly, marvellous heart of Melbourne, ...
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