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Final Draft - Great Conversations — 401 episodes

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Brendan Colley’s The Season for Flying Saucers

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Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s Bugger

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Alan Fyfe’s The Cross Thieves

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Book Club - Gary Lonesborough’s Good Young Men

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Emily Lighezzolo’s Life Drawing

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Book Club - Liz Allen’s In Bloom

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Gary Lonesborough’s Good Young Men

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Book Club - Maria van Neerven's Two Tongues

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Penny Tangey’s What Rhymes With Murder

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Book Club - Ian Kemish’s Two Islands

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Shailee Thompson’s How To Kill a Guy in Ten Dates

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Book Club - Emily Lighezzolo’s Life Drawing

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Maria van Neerven’s Two Tongues

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Book Club - George Kemp’s Soft Serve

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Sara Haddad’s The Sunbird - young readers' edition

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Book Club - Shailee Thompson’s How To Kill a Guy in Ten Dates

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Kay Kerr’s Might Cry Later

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Christian White’s The Long Night

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George Kemp’s Soft Serve

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Rhett Davis’s Arborescence

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Book Club - Kay Kerr’s Might Cry Later

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William J Byrne's The Warrumbar

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Evelyn Araluen’s Rot

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Book Club - On the Danger of Xmas reads

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Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone in this Bank is a Thief

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Book Club - Evelyn Araluen's The Rot

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Katharine Pollock’s Starry Eyed

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Sally Hepworth’s Mad Mabel

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Book Club - Mark Mupotsa-Russell’s The Wolf Who Cried Boy

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Luke Johnson’s King Tide

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Mark Mupotsa-Russell’s The Wolf Who Cried Boy

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Book Club - Rhett Davis’s Arborescence

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In Conversation - Maeve Marsden - Artistic Director of Blue Mountains Writers Festival

34

January Gilchrist’s The Final Chapter

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Book Club - Sally Hepworth’s Mad Mabel

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Brandon Jack’s Pissants

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Natalia Figueroa Barroso's Hailstones Fell Without Rain

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Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Discipline

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Jessica Dettmann’s Your Friend and Mine

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Naima Brown’s Mother Tongue

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Omar Sakr’s The Nightmare Sequence

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42

Thomas Vowles’s Our New Gods

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Book Club - Brandon Jack’s Pissants

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First Nations Classics - Paul Collis’s Dancing Home

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Book Club - Thomas Vowles’s Our New Gods

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Matt Rogers’s The Forsaken

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Sinead Stubbins’s Stinkbug

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Book Club - Omar Sakr's The Nightmare Sequence

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Robbie Arnott’s Dusk

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Book Club - Laura Elvery’s Nightingale

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Hilde Hinton’s The Opposite of Lonely

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Book Club - Mandy Beaumont’s The Thrill of It

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Shelley Burr’s Vanish

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Book Club - Sinead Stubbins’ Stinkbug

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Vijay Khurana’s The Passenger Seat

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Laura Elvery’s Nightingale

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Gretchen Shirm's Out of the Woods

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Book Club - Vijay Khurana’s The Passenger Seat

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Book Club - Chris Flynn’s Orpheus Nine

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Jane Caro's The Lyrebird

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Book Club - Ann Dombroski’s After the Great Storm

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Chris Flynn’s Orpheus Nine

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Ann Dombroski’s After the Great Storm

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Caro Llewelyn’s Love Unedited

65

Book Club - Naima Brown’s Mother Tongue

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Rachael Johns The Bad Bridesmaid

67

Book Club - Karina May’s That Island Feeling

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Eileen Chong's We Speak of Flowers

69

Book Club - Andrea Goldsmith’s The Buried Life

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Steve MinOn’s First Name Second Name

71

Book Club - Diana Reid’s Signs of Damage

72

Zane Lovitt’s The Body Next Door

73

Book Club - Steve MinOn’s First Name Second Name

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Vanessa McCausland's The Last Illusion of Paige White

75

Catherine Jinks’ Panic

76

Book Club - Eileen Chong's We Speak of Flowers

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Book Club - Catherine Jinks’ Panic

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Sean Wilson’s You Must Remember This

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Book Club - Holden Sheppard's Invisible Boys

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Ashley Kalagian Blunt's Cold Truth

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Welcoming Felix Shannon to Final Draft

82

Karina May’s That Island Feeling

83

Book Club - Sean Wilson's You Must Remember This

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Lech Blaine’s Australian Gospel

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Esther Campion’s The Writing Class

86

Book Club - End of Year Picks and Xmas Gift Guide 2024

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Emma Grey’s Pictures of You

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Book Club - Lech Blaine’s Australian Gospel

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Peter FitzSimon's The Legend of Albert Jacka

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Book Club - Esther Campion’s The Writing Class

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Emily Tsokos Purtill's Matia

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Book Club - Emma Grey’s Pictures of You

93

Mike Barry's Action Tank

94

Book Club - Emily Maguire’s Rapture

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Ann Liang's A Song to Drown Rivers

96

Book Club - Tigest Girma’s Immortal Dark

97

Lauren Keegan’s All the Bees in the Hollows

98

Weekend Plans? Head to Blue Mountains Writers' Festival

99

Emily Maguire’s Rapture

100

Book Club - Ann Liang’s A Song to Drown Rivers

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Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival Director Maeve Marsden

102

Stephen Downes’ Mural

103

Book Club - Lauren Keegan’s All the Bees in the Hollows

104

Lauren Crozier’s The Best Witch in Paris

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Dr Karl Kruszelnicki's A Periodic Tale

106

Maryam Master’s Laughter is the Best Ending

107

Lisa Kenway's All You Took From Me

108

Mills & Boon Australia’s 50th Anniversary

109

Book Club Dr Karl Kruszelnicki's A Periodic Tale

110

Jordan Prosser’s Big Time

111

Book Club - Lisa Kenway’s All You Took From Me

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Evie Wyld’s The Echoes

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Book Club - Max Porter’s Shy

114

Tim Ayliffe's The Wrong Man

115

Celebrating Book Week 17th - 23rd August

116

Belinda Cranston’s The Changing Room

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Book Club - Evie Wyld’s The Echoes

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Patrick Holland’s Oblivion

119

Book Club - Jordan Prosser’s Big Time

120

Alice Robinson’s If You Go

121

Book Club - Patrick Holland’s Oblivion

122

Deborah Callaghan’s The Little Clothes

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Susannah Begbie’s The Deed

124

Book Club - Alice Robinson’s If You Go

125

Jenna Lo Bianco’s Love & Rome

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Book Club - Siang Lu’s Ghost Cities

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Bri Lee’s The Work

128

Siang Lu's Ghost Cities

129

Book Club - Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites

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Victoria Purman’s The Radio Hour

131

Book Club - John Richards’ The Gorgon Flower

132

Nikki Motram’s Killarney

133

Book Club - Bri Lee’s The Work

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John Richards’ The Gorgon Flower

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Book Club - Victoria Purman’s The Radio Hour

136

Paul Morgan’s The Winter Palace

137

Book Club - Susannah Begbie’s The Deed

138

Donna M Cameron's The Rewilding

139

Ernest Price’s The Pyramid of Needs

140

Yumna Kassab’s Politica

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Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead

142

Book Club - Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead

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Sharlene Allsopp’s The Great Undoing

144

Final Draft Goes National!

145

Book Club - Ernest Price’s The Pyramid of Needs

146

Book Club - Vikki Wakefield's To the River

147

Elizabeth Coleman's A Dance With Murder

148

Book Club - Yumna Kassab’s Politica

149

David Brooks’ The other side of daylight

150

Book Club - Sharlene Allsop’s The Great Undoing.

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Sydney Writers Festival 2024 Program Launch with Artistic Director Ann Mossop

152

Book Club - David Brooks’ The other side of daylight

153

Mykaela Saunders’ Always Will Be

154

Book Club - Sarah Sasson’s Tidelines

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Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival

156

Book Club - Grace Chan’s Every Version of You

157

Povo - The New Anthology from Sweatshop Western Sydney Literary Movement

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Book Club - Robert Skinner’s I’d Rather Not

159

Sarah Sasson's Tidelines

160

Book Club - Eugen Bacon’s Serengotti

161

A.W. Hammond’s The Berlin Traitor

162

Randolf Stow's Tourmaline in the Australian Classics Book Club

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Kate Jennings' Moral Hazard in the Australian Classics Book Club

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Amy Whitting's I for Isobel in the Australian Classics Book Club

165

Robin Klein's Came Back to Show You I could Fly in the Australian Classics Book Club

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Boyd Oxlade's Death in Brunswick in the Australian Classics Book Club

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Criena Rohan's The Delinquents in the Australian Classics Book Club

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Madeleine St John's The Women in Black in the Australian Classics Book Club

169

Final Draft - Summer Sessions Preview

170

Jack Heath's Kill Your Husbands

171

Book Club - End of Year Wrap & Gift Guide

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Book Club - Lucy Treloar’s Days of Innocence and Wonder

173

Nicholas Jose’s The Idealist

174

Book Club - Sara M Saleh’s The Flirtation of Girls; Gahzal El-Banat

175

Mirandi Riwoe's Sunbirds

176

Book Club - Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie

177

Tony Birch's Women & Children

178

Book Club - Mirandi Riwoe's Sunbirds

179

Graham Akhurst's Borderland

180

Book Club - Tony Birch's Women & Children

181

Bonus - Chris Womersley's The Diplomat

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Chris Womersly's Ordinary Gods and Monsters

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Book Club Encore - Claire G Coleman's Enclave

184

Maxine Beneba Clarke’s We Know a Place

185

Book Club - Davina Bell’s What to Do When You’re Not Sure What to Do

186

Sara M Saleh's Songs for the Dead and the Living

187

Book Club - Graham Akhurst’s Borderland

188

Love Your Bookshop Day at Megalong Books

189

Emily Spurr’s Beatrix & Fred (Spoiler Free)

190

AJ Betts' One Song

191

Book Club - Emily Spurr’s Beatrix & Fred

192

Thank You Kate & Jol Temple - Radiothon Bonus

193

Tegan Bennett Daylight’s Royals

194

Book Club - Maxine Beneba Clarke’s We Know a Place

195

Radiothon Special - Support 2ser

196

John Kinsella’s Cellnight

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Book Club - Kirsty Jagger’s Roseghetto

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Jane Harrison’s The Visitors

199

Amy Suiter Clarke’s Lay Your Body Down

200

Book Club - Jane Harrison’s The Visitors

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Kirsty Jagger’s Roseghetto

202

Book Club - sydney khoo’s The Spider and Her Demons

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Rachel Coad’s New York City Glow

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Book Club - Angela O'Keeffe's The Sitter

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sydney khoo’s The Spider and Her Demons

206

Mercedes Mercier's Black Lies

207

Book Club - Poetry Month feat Lulu Houdini

208

Amy Lovat’s Mistakes and Other Lovers

209

Book Club - Amy Suiter Clarke’s Lay Your Body Down

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Dr Tamryn Bennet on Poetry Month this August

211

Book Club Encore - A.W. Hammond's The Paris Collaborator

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Robyn Dennison’s Blind Spot

213

Book Club - Rachel Coad’s New York City Glow

214

Gregory Day's The Bell of the World

215

Book Club - The Voice to Parliament Handbook

216

Robbie Egan on Book People's Importance of Imagination study

217

2023 Stella Prize Winner Sarah Holland-Batt's The Jaguar

218

Book Club - Monica Vuu’s When One of Us Hurts

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Yasmin Smith on the First Nations Classics Series

220

Book Club - Chloe Hayden’s Different Not Less

221

Helena Fox's The Quiet and The Loud

222

Book Club - UQP's First Nations Classics Series

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Hugh Mackay’s The Therapist

224

Book Club Encore - Emily Spurr's A Million Things

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Benjamin Law - Guest Curator for Sydney Writers' Festival

226

Book Club - Gregory Day’s The Bell of the World

227

Pip William's The Bookbinder of Jericho

228

Book Club - Nardi Simpson’s Song of the Crocodile

229

Addi Road Writers Festival

230

Book Club - Sarah Holland-Batt's The Jaguar

231

Michael Thompson's How to be Remembered

232

Paul Ashford Harris's Love Oil and the Fortune's of War

233

Book Club - Helena Fox’s The Quiet and The Loud

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Ann Mossop - Sydney Writers Festival Artistic Director

235

Book Club - Michael Thompson’s How To Be Remembered

236

Zoya Patel's Once a Stranger

237

Book Club - Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings

238

Shirley Le's Funny Ethnics

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Book Club - Shirley Le's Funny Ethnics

240

Luke Rutledge’s A Man and His Pride

241

Book Club - Robbie Arnott’s Limberlost

242

Vikki Wakefield's After You Were Gone

243

Bonus - Paul Dalgarno in conversation with Irene Diakanastasis

244

Simon Rowell's Wild Card

245

Book Club - Luke Rutledge’s A Man and His Pride

246

Victoria Hannan's Marshmallow

247

Book Club - Mary Beard’s Women and Power

248

Nina Kenwood’s Unnecessary Drama

249

Book Club - Pip Drysdale’s The Next Girl

250

Tom Pitts’s Electric and Mad and Brave

251

Holly Throsby’s Clarke

252

Kate Temple’s The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat

253

Eliza Henry-Jones’s Salt & Skin

254

Chris Flynn's Here Be Leviathans

255

Book Club - 2022 Gift Guide

256

Angela Meyer’s Moon Sugar

257

Book Club - Holly Throsby’s Clarke

258

Siang Lu’s The Whitewash

259

Book Club Redux - Anthony Sharwood's The Brumby Wars

260

Sulari Gentil’s The Woman in the Library

261

Book Club - Vikki Wakefield’s After You Were Gone

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Paul Daley’s Jesustown

263

Maryam Master’s No Words

264

Book Club - Nina Kenwood’s Unnecessary Drama

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Holden Sheppard’s The Brink

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Book Club - Angela Meyer’s Moon Sugar

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Neverlanders from Tom Taylor and Jon Sommariva

268

Book Club - Eliza Henry-Jones’ Salt and Skin

269

Radiothon - Happy Birthday 2ser

270

Book Club - School Holiday Reading Recommendations

271

National Young Writers Festival Preview with Jack Gow

272

Book Club - Jasmine Seymour’s Open Your Heart to Country

273

CBCA Winner - Shirley Marr's All Four Quarters of the Moon

274

CBCA Winner - Andrea Rowe’s Jetty Jumping

275

Book Club - Siang Lu’s The Whitewash

276

Vikki Petraitis’ The Unbelieved

277

Book Club - Paul Daley's Jesustown

278

Yassmin Abdul Magied's Talking About a Revolution

279

Book Club - Sulari Gentill's The Woman in the Library

280

Matthew Ryan Davies' Things We Bury

281

Book Club - Shirley Marr's All Four Quarters of the Moon

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Georgina Young’s Bootstrap

283

Book Club - James O’Loghlin’s Criminals

284

Claire G Coleman’s Enclave *Spoilers Special*

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Claire G Coleman’s Enclave

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Book Club - Georgina Young's Bootstrap

287

Lauren Draper’s The Museum of Broken Things

288

Vale Frank Moorhouse

289

Book Club - Matthew Ryan Davies' Things We Bury

290

Kate Mildenhall & Katherine Collette hosts of The First Time podcast

291

Book Club - Claire G. Coleman's Enclave

292

Brendan Colley’s The Signal Line

293

Book Club - Yassmin Abdel Magied's Talking About a Revolution

294

Jane Rawson’s A History of Dreams

295

Book Club - Sulari Gentill's classic Crossing the Lines

296

Ben McKenzie & Elizabeth Flux hosts of Pratchat

297

Book Club - Brendan Colley’s The Signal Line

298

Steve Tolz’s Here Goes Nothing

299

Book Club - Michelle Cahill’s Daisy & Woolf

300

George Haddad’s Losing Face

301

Book Club - Carl Merrison & Hakea Hustler’s Tracks of the Missing

302

Michelle Cahill‘s Daisy & Woolf

303

Bonus - Sydney Writers Festival Artistic Director Michael Williams

304

Dinuka McKenzie’s The Torrent

305

Book Club - George Haddad’s Losing Face

306

Fiona Wood’s How to Spell Catastrophe

307

Book Club - Philip Barker's Climb

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Callan J Mulligan's Astraeus

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Philip Barker’s Climb

310

Andrew Roff’s The Teeth of a Slow Machine

311

Yumna Kassab’s Australiana

312

Ben Walter's What Fear Was

313

Book Club - Jane Rawson's A History of Dreams

314

Book Club - What is Cli-Fi?

315

Jennifer Shahade’s Chess Queens (feat. Bruce Williams)

316

The 2022 Stella Prize Shortlist with Jaclyn Booton

317

Emma Viskic's Those Who Perish (feat. Felix Shannon)

318

Book Club - Andrew Roff's The Teeth of a Slow Machine

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Book Club - Yumna Kassab's Australiana

320

Rhett Davis' Hovering

321

Book Club - Festivals are back!

322

Eliza Reilly's Sheilas

323

Book Club - Eliza Reilly’s Sheilas

324

Book News - Blak & Bright Festival

325

Maryrose Cuskelly’s The Cane

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Book Club - Rhett Davis Hovering

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Claire G Coleman's Lies Damned Lies

328

Vanessa Len’s Only a Monster

329

Book Club - Maryrose Cuskelly’s The Cane

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Mandy Beaumont's The Furies

331

Book Club - Jessica Au’s Cold Enough For Snow

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Dani Vee host of Words & Nerds

333

Jessica Au’s Cold Enough For Snow

334

Book Club - Bri Lee's Who Gets to be Smart

335

Katherine Collette’s The Competition

336

Book Club - Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

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Linda Jaivin’s The Shortest History of China

338

Michael Burge’s Tank Water

339

Michelle de Kretser's Scary Monsters

340

Michelle Kalus and Ali Berg's Fancy Meeting You Here

341

Book Club - Merry Xmas from Andrew & Final Draft

342

Omar Musa’s Killernova

343

Book Club - Michelle Kalus and Ali Berg's Fancy Meeting You Here

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Jennifer Down’s Bodies of Light (Part Two)

345

Jennifer Down’s Bodies of Light (Part One)

346

Book Club - Jennifer Down's Bodies of Light

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Dr Denise Chapman - On Diversity & Representation in Children’s Literature

348

Inga Simpson's The Last Woman in the World

349

Book Club - Inga Simpson's The Last Woman in the World

350

Mark Smith's If Not Us (Part Two)

351

Mark Smith’s If Not Us (Part One)

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Book Club - Mark Smith's If Not Us

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Kay Kerr's Social Queue

354

Book Club - Anthony Sharwood's The Brumby Wars

355

Karen Manton’s The Curlew's Eye

356

Book Club - Kay Kerr’s Social Queue

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Maxine Beneba Clarke’s How Decent Folk Behave (Part Two)

358

Maxine Beneba Clarke’s How Decent Folk Behave (Part One)

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Book Club - Maxine Beneba Clarke's How Decent Folk Behave

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Lech Blaine on the evolution of the Larrikin

361

Sarah Bailey's The Housemate

362

2ser Radiothon

363

James Roxburgh’s The Banksia House Breakout

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Book Club - Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

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Tobias Madden’s Anything But Fine

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Book Club - James Roxburgh's The Banksia House Breakout

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Catherine Jinks' The Attack

368

Celebrating Fifty Books with Catherine Jinks

369

Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil - Cats, Outtakes & Axl Rose

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Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

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Max Easton’s The Magpie Wing (Part Two)

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Max Easton’s The Magpie Wing (Part One)

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Book Club - Max Easton's The Magpie Wing

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Mette Jakobsen’s The Wingmaker

375

Book Club - Tony Birch's Dark as Last Night

376

Tony Birch's Whisper Songs & Dark as Last Night

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Book Club - J.P. Pomare's The Last Guests

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Racism - Stories on Fear, Hate and Bigotry (Part Two)

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Racism - Stories on Fear, Hate and Bigotry (Part One)

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Book Club - Michael Mohammed Ahmad's The Other Half of You

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J.P. Pomare's The Last Guests (Part Two)

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J.P. Pomare's The Last Guests (Part One)

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Tilly Lawless's Nothing But My Body

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Book Club - Racism Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry

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Anne Marie Te Whiu & David Stavanger on Poetry Month

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Book Club - Poetry Month

387

Elodie Cheesman's Love, in Theory (Part Two)

388

Elodie Cheesman's Love, in Theory (Part One)

389

Book Club - Introducing 'Flock' an anthology of First Nations writers

390

Flock - First Nations Stories Then and Now

391

Book Club - Elodie Cheesman's Love in Theory

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Bonus - Andrew on 3 Years of the Final Draft Podcast

393

Happy Anniversary Final Draft!

394

Michelle Wright’s Small Acts of Defiance

395

Book Club - Be Kind to your 'To Be Read' Pile

396

RWR McDonald's Nancy Business

397

Book Club - Michelle Wright's Small Acts of Defiance

398

Jessie Stephens' Heartsick (Part Two)

399

Jessie Stephens' Heartsick (Part One)

400

Book Club - R.W.R. McDonald's Nancy Business

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Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s The Other Half of You (Part 2)