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Diving In — 91 episodes
85: Bram Stoker’s merry band of men set off to save England from the threat of vampires with A LOT of help from a woman!
83: All Around the World: Translated Books
82: Burnt at the Stake: Witch Trials, Ignorance, Fear, and Superstition
81: A Mélange of Books
80: Five Mothers – impactful, present and absent
79: The Changing Preoccupations of a local Treasure, Tim Winton
78: A Useful Idiot (and we’re not talking about a British Royal here)
77: American Greats
76: Jonathon Coe, A master observer of the State of the Nation
75: Teen Sleuths, Cringe Parents and Dysfunctional Families
74: We’re Back! With a Scoop and a Pile-on
73: The Ghost of Charles Dickens sitting on Barbara Kingsolver’s Shoulder
72: This Is A Bit Embarrassing… (books we’ve never read)
71: The Next Diving In Book Club – Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt
70: A Spotlight on Early Australia
69: It's the very best time of year! It’s new release time and there is a publishing frenzy.
68. Literary Scandals, Hoaxes and Controversies
67. It’s that Time of Year Again!
66. Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
65. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
64. Deep and Fragile Connections with a Natural World
63. Capturing the Zeitgeist with some Fantastic New Releases
62. If You’re Going to San Francisco...
61. This Book is Cancelled!
60. Walking the Streets of Tokyo with the characters from great fiction set in that city
59. Books for Younger Readers
58: Buster - The Best Boy
57: New Releases by New (to us) Authors
56: The Diving In podcast girls are back with some new releases!
55. The Revenge of Cervantes – Book Club Part 2
54. Tilting at Windmills – Book Club Part 1
53. Hola nuestras queridas amigas!
52. Books We've Been Wanting to Read for Ages
51. Things That Go Bump in the Night
50: A Greek Chorus of Achilles and the Sisterhood
49: Crime, Betrayal and Secrets in Colder Climes
48. Trojan Horses - Things Hiding in Plain Sight
47: Reading Over A Long Hot Summer
46: Redemption and Dingo Noir
45: Sleuthing, Heartbreak and Hoarding- a chat about 6 great books.
44: Our Book Club Pick: The Hero's Quest - Brothers and Stowaways
43. Women Locked Up (In Prisons Real and Imagined)
42: New Releases and Literary Coincidences
41: Hot Off The Press!
40: Reading Around the World - Books in Translation
39: Mad About Maggie O'Farrell
38: Legal Thrillers for Legal Eagles
37: The Book Swap
36: Wuthering Heights Book Club
Swandive 5 - Louise chats with Polly Phillips, author of 'My Best Friend's Murder'
35: Theme and Fancy Free
34: We Read Whatever We Wanted
33: Classic Sleuths and Modern Detectives
32: Everybody Should Be Talking About This
31: Paris
30: Growing Up on the Other Side of The Tracks
29: Bodices and Breathy Sighs
28: What We Read Over the Break
27: All That Glitters Is Not Gold - A Deep Dive into Edith Wharton
26: A Gripping Grab Bag of Recent Reads
25. Homegrown Heroes - including a Magical Quest and some 'Metropolis Noir'
Swandive 4 - Louise chats with Cate Sutherland from independent publisher The Fremantle Press
Swandive 3 - Virginia interviews Hélène Magisson for the release of her new children's book 'Claudette'
24. Getting Addicted in 2020 (and 'fessing up)
23: A Love Letter to Italy
22: Books We Read Over Our Break
21: Twin Tales
20: Reading Indigenous Authors
Swandive 2 - A chat with Australian author Imbi Neeme about her new novel 'The Spill'
Swandive 1 - Virginia and Louise enjoy a chat with Australian author Suzanne Daniel
19: Contemporary Australian Books
18: Girls
17: Family Scandals and Secrets
Duck Dive Two- We Share Your Reading Habits!
16: Books that Uplift Us
Duck Dive One - A Diving In Quiz for Isolation
15: Reading In Isolation
14: The Irish Episode with some great storytellers, Sebastian Barry, John Boyne, Anne Enright, Marion Keyes and Niall Williams
13: Nancy Mitford and her eccentric family
12: Books We Read Over Summer
11: Christmas Special - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford
10: More Great British Books - Ian McEwan, Jessie Burton, Dorothy Whipple & James Meek
09: Some Very British Stories - Tracy Chevalier, Elizabeth Taylor, Nicola Upson and Barbara Pym
08: Whodunnit - a very criminal episode - Cleeves, Carter, Kevin Barry, Connelly, Sayers and Truss
07: Taken Captive by Anne Patchett - The Dutch House, The Magician's Assistant, State of Wonder, and other Patchett masterpieces
06: Manuscripts, Spies and Mother Russia - Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and Lara Prescott
05: Land of the Free, Home of the Brave - Jacqueline Woodson, Téa Obreht and Laila Lalami
04: Sacred Emus and Missing Sisters - Bruce Pascoe, Melissa Lucashenko and Tara June Winch
03: Rabbits, Rascals, Hideouts and Sleuths - Enid Blyton, Mary Norton and many other great children's authors
02: Memory and Mysteries - Emma Healey and Sarah Moss
01: Locked Up in the South - Colson Whitehead and Tayari Jones