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Mamamia Book Club
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Whether you're a big juicy book worm or you want to include more reading into your life, the podcast book club is the place. Read the book club selections then join Jessie Stephens and a host of her Mamamia guests as they dive between the pages of some brilliant, (and not so brilliant) reads. Should you recommend it to a friend or forget it ever happened? Listen in as we debate the works.
Episodes
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The Six Books Guaranteed To Get You Out Of A Reading Slump
After being inundated with requests for this topic, we’re here to share the books that are guaranteed to get you out of a reading slump. No matter how dire the circumstances are… From the ultimate modern romance novel, to a sweeping family drama that will have you in tears and a decadent series...
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BONUS: Out Loud's Best Books To Read This Summer
Dropping into your feed in 2021 with a bonus ep from Mamamia Out Loud. After a year many of us struggled to find the energy and attention span for a lot of reading, Holly, Jessie and Mia are here with the page-turners you won't be able to put down in 2021... From big hits to an old classic, and...
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Introducing Lady Startup Stories: Sally Hepworth Wrote A Book That Wasn't Good Enough
Hey! We're just popping into your feed to share an awesome episode of Lady Startup Stories with you - the podcast where Mia Freedman interviews female founders about the highs and lows of running their own business. This episode features Sally Hepworth. Sally is an author, a mother, a wife, and…
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Gloria Steinem Knows The Truth Will Piss You Off
It was Gloria Steinem who said, “The truth will set you free… but first it will piss you off.” Now, 62 years since she wrote her first book, ‘The Thousand Indias’, Steinem has published a book of her most iconic quotes. “Without leaps of imagination” she once wrote, “or dreaming, we lose the...
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Paullina Simons: What Makes The Perfect Love Story
Ask a woman to name her favourite book of all time, and many, without skipping a beat, will tell you it’s The Bronze Horseman. Often referred to as one of the greatest love stories of all time, The Bronze Horseman is set in Leningrad, upon the backdrop of World War II. As Hitler’s armies encroach...
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Peter FitzSimons Knows How To Write A Bestseller
Peter FitzSimons is one of Australia’s best selling non-fiction authors of the last 20 years. With no less than 36 published works to his name, FitzSimons is also one of the countries most popular columnists and after-dinner speakers. In 2011, FitzSimons was named a Member of the Order of…
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How Jane Harper Wrote The Dry
Jane Harper is the author of international bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man, and is inarguably one of the biggest names in Australian fiction. Harper, a former journalist, has a formula for writing a book that’s now been shared all over the world. She knows better than just...
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Memoir or Fiction? Trent Dalton On Boy Swallows Universe
Trent Dalton’s childhood was filled with dark people, underground rooms and strange secrets. In his critically-acclaimed debut book Boy Swallows Universe, memoir meets fiction, as Dalton explores suburban Australia, brotherhood and the most unlikely of friendships. All the questions you had after...
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Can you love and dislike a character at the same time? Does a story about of two being good to each other enough to make it a good book? Is this book an accurate description of loneliness? And what the hell is a jerkin? On our final episode, we’re going to be discussing Gail Honeyman's book…
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The Pisces
It’s not every day you pick up a book about people having sex with a fish. But if you’re listening to this podcast you’ve probably read Melissa Broder's book The Pisces, and you’re probably here because, well, you need to talk about the fact that a woman had sex with a merman. On this episode,...
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How To Be Perfect
What's it like doing a book club on your bosses book? Let's find out. This week Jessie & Rachel Corbett sit down to discuss Holly Wainwright's latest novel How To Be Perfect. And we're not going to lie, they get honest. From how, How To Be Perfect compares to Holly's first book, The Mummy…
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Everything I Know About Love
What do you call a book that's part memoir, part diary, part recipes? Are female friendships the ultimate love story? And can you write a memoir when you don’t have that much to say? Jessie Stephens and Polly Taylor are talking about Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love, and they have a...
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The Lost Man
Jane Harper rose to fame in 2015 when her manuscript The Dry won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Three years and two books later, Harper has positioned herself as one of Australia’s best novelist. But is her third book 'The Lost Man' all it’s cracked up to be? Producer Lize joins Jessie…
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Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty is one of the most successful authors on the planet and it's fair to say we love everything she does here at Mamamia. Which is why on this episode we're going deep on her latest novel Nine Perfect Strangers. There's so much to discuss, like did it need a trigger warning? Were nine...
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12 Rules For Life
Should you always stand up straight with your shoulders back? Can you really bother children when they are skateboarding? Does life REALLY only need 12 Rules? Jordan Peterson is one of the most divisive public intellectuals on the planet. And his 12 rules are just as divisive. So much so that...
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Boy Swallows Universe
Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe has been labelled one of the must-read books of the year so what better way to kick off this summer season of Book Club. And joining Jessie Stephens to discuss it is writer and self-confessed Trent Dalton fangirl, Holly Wainwright. So did this book live up to...
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Book Club Is Back....
This summer we are bringing back the Mamamia Book Club. Over 8 weeks we'll be discussing 8 of the biggest books of the year. We’re kicking it off on the 16th of December with Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe. Then every Sunday after that a new episode will drop. There will be Jordan…
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BOOK BONUS: How To Be Perfect
Mamamia Out Loud host Holly Wainwright's first novel focused on the complicated lives of three blogging mum's desperate for their blog to win the coveted Blog-ahhs. In the sequel, How To Be Perfect, the focus shifts to the world of wellness. Fellow Outlouders, Mia Freedman and Jessie Stephens sit...
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The Self-Helpy Book: Make It Happen, Michelle Bridges.
For our final book of the season, we're taking on the cult of Michelle Bridges. Whether you're a cynic or a self-help devotee, Make It Happen is about breaking down the barriers that might be blocking your path to achieving your goals. But can it break the mould of cliched, woo-woo self-help…
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The Sexy Thriller: Maestra, LS Hilton
Art theft. A femme fatale. Wealth and status, class and sexxxxx. Labelled the "most shocking thriller of the year", this is a book sold for a SEVEN figure advance, that already has a Hollywood script in development. But is this sexy crime thriller just Fifty Shades of Grey meets The Goldfinch…
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The Classic, Re-imagined: Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld.
What does Jane Austen have to do with crossfit and paleo diets? Nothing until now. Eligible is a modern-day re-telling of the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. While this contemporary, tongue-in-cheek retelling of Pride and Prejudice does follow the Bennet family, there are some updated...
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The Memoir: The Anti-Cool Girl, Rosie Waterland
Imagine being doubled over from laughing, only to stand up and be punched straight in the guts. This debut novel from one of the most exciting writers in the Australian landscape, Rosie Waterland, will do that to you. Famous for her hilarious Bachelor Recaps, her memoir is a huge departure from…
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The Thriller: The One Who Got Away, Caroline Overington
It’s been dubbed 'The New Gone Girl'. A fast-paced female psychological thriller from an author who has twice won the Walkley award for investigative journalism. If you haven’t read this book, stop right there, thankyou very much. There is a big fat twist that we are busting to talk about it. Did...
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The Best Seller: Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty
It's chick-lit, but not as you know it. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on schoolyard scandals, kindergarten cliques, with a death thrown in for good measure. This New York Times best seller is being made into a TV series with HBO, and with good reason. It's a wolf in sheep's clothing: dark...
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The Cult Read: The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up
This tiny book has sold five million copies, spawned a music album, a TV show, and countless blogs, youtube channels and pinterest pages dedicated to the craft. It's about more than just tidying up. Marie Kondo says her book will make you more successful, more confident, and more motivated to...
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The Thriller: The Girl On The Train, Paula Hawkins
It outsold Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code and has been sitting at the top of the charts since its release. A page turner for sure; a female psychological thriller that's easy, trashy, with a decent twist at the end. But the question we ask is: if you hate the books characters, and detest the way…
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The Self-Help One: Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
Do you want to live a more creative life? Elizabeth Gilbert, of Eat, Pray, Love fame says you can. And you MUST. But before you run out and enrol in life-drawing 101, stop right there. It's not neccessary. This is a no-bullshit guide on how to make space for more creativity in your life. She…
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The Beautiful Read: The Eye Of The Sheep, Sofie Laguna
In my opinion, there is no greater discovery in 2015 than this book. Despite its heavy themes, The Eye Of The Sheep is an eminently readable and joyous tale. Told through the eyes of young Jimmy Flick, it's a story about family dysfunction, social disadvantage and a mother's love. It’s the most...
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The True Crime One: This House Of Grief, Helen Garner
Would a man really stage an accident to murder his three children and get back at his estranged wife? That’s the question Helen Garner concerns herself with in this intimately observed court-house novel. The book follows the case of Robert Farquharson, accused of deliberately driving his car into…
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The Prize Winner: All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
The Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction this year sounds more like something from a Mills and Boon novel. Orphaned children, a priceless magical diamond, a blind French girl and a German wunderkind who fall in love via a radio transmission? But Anthony Doerr's war time tome, ten years in the…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Whether you're a big juicy book worm or you want to include more reading into your life, the podcast book club is the place. Read the book club selections then join Jessie Stephens and a host of her Mamamia guests as they dive between the pages of some brilliant, (and not so brilliant) reads. Should you recommend it to a friend or forget it ever happened? Listen in as we debate the works.
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Whether you're a big juicy book worm or you want to include more reading into your life, the podcast book club is the place. Read the book club selections then join Jessie Stephens and a host of her Mamamia guests as they dive between the pages of some brilliant, (and not so brilliant) reads....
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