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Five Favourite Books
by The Institute of Public Affairs
Dr Bella d’Abrera speaks to Australia’s leading commentators about their five favourite books and why each make their shortlist.
Episodes
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Five Favourite Books with Bella d'Abrera: Janet Albrechtsen
Lawyer, opinion columnist at The Australian and all round Superwoman Dr Janet Albrechtsen discusses her five favourite books with the IPA's Bella d’Abrera. Listen to Janet and the IPA’s Bella d’Abrera use books to springboard a wide-ranging discussion on what inspires us to become the people we...
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Greg Sheridan: The Everlasting Man
Greg’s final pick is The Everlasting Man which was published in 1925. Chesterton, who was an historian, a writer, a philosopher, a lay theologian and an art critic, was a prolific author, penning approximately 80 books, several hundred poems, 200 short stories and 4000 essays. Listen to Greg...
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Greg Sheridan: Leave it to Psmith
Greg explains why this particular Wodehouse is his favourite of all Wodehouse’s comic novels. It follows the adventures of Ronald Psmith (“the ‘p’ is silent, as in pshrimp”) who is always willing to help a damsel in distress. ‘Leave it to Psmith’ is, as Greg says, the moment in which Wodehouse...
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Greg Sheridan: My Antonia
Find out why American author Willa Cather’s 1918 novel about immigrants’ experience in Nebraska, told through the memorable character of Ántonia Shimerda makes Greg’s favourite five books, even though he says he doesn’t like landscape writing, claims that he has no visual imagination, and…
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Greg Sheridan: The Sword of Honour Trilogy
This episode is a discussion of Evelyn Waugh’s masterful and epic work which follows Guy Crouchback’s experience of World War Two. Greg loves this book because it’s a celebration of Guy’s decency. Guy is not a superhero, he doesn’t have a particular high IQ, he doesn’t win the war and he doesn’t...
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5 Favourite Books with Dr Bella d’Abrera - Greg Sheridan: The Year of Living Dangerously
Listen to Greg’s take on Christopher Koch’s 1978 novel set in Jakarta during the events leading up to the coup attempt led by the Communist Party of Indonesia in 1965. The story is a rollicking adventure, political thriller and love story wrapped into one enduring novel. The characters are...
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Trailer - Five Favourite Books
Dr Bella d'Abrera introduces the new podcast series from the Institute of Public Affairs, Five Favourite Books. In this series, Bella speaks to Australia's leading commentators about their five favourite books and why each make their shortlist.
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Dr Bella d’Abrera speaks to Australia’s leading commentators about their five favourite books and why each make their shortlist.
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