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EPISODE · May 1, 2025 · 54 MIN

A beach holiday told four ways in Luke Horton's Time Together

from The Bookshelf · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Old friends gather together on the coast in Australian writer Luke Horton’s Time Together, Kate and Cassie take a look. Plus, Jo Harkin’s The Pretender, set during the time of the Tudors' ascent it tells the story of a little-known real-life figure; and Laura Elvery’s Nightingale, a re-imagining of the life of Florence Nightingale.BOOKS Luke Horton, Time Together, Scribe Jo Harkin, The Pretender, Bloomsbury Circus Laura Elvery, Nightingale, UQP GUESTS Jane Caro, social commentator, activist, and writer. She has written thirteen books, including three set in the Tudor period, and two crime novels – The Mother and her latest, Lyrebird Michael Cathcart, historian and broadcaster, and host of Radio National’s Stage Show OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDCecil Woodham Smith, Florence NightingaleSarah Wynn Williams, Careless PeopleEric Hoffer, The True BelieverAthol Fugard, Blood KnotCREDITSPresenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullaghProducer: Kate Evans, Sarah CorbettSound engineer: Roi Huberman, Tim Jenkins, Micky GrossmanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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