All Episodes

Warren Rankine on childhood trauma and finding your feet in 'Fifteen Feet Tall'

James O'Loghlin on mesothelioma and friendship in 'The Accidental Activist'

Justine Hausheer on the fight against extinction in 'The Vanishing Wild'

Jess Kitching on love, loss and new beginnings in, 'The Secrets of Strangers'

Kerry Jewell on her compelling, candid and darkly funny novel, 'A Little Unwell'

Luke Taylor on Peter Marralwanga, Painter of the Djang of Western Arnhem Land

Jane Messer on her compelling memoir, 'Raven Mother: War, family and inheritance'

Theresa Miller on stepping up to the microphone and making an impact in 'Speak Up'

Vikki Petraitis on a forty-year-old true crime mystery in, 'The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron'

Debra Dank on family, culture, connection and the power of memory in 'Ankami'

Aaron Tait on his journey from war to peace in 'Far Horizons'

Vicki Bennett on her story of love, war, and intergenerational healing, 'The Letters'

Chris Blake on his gripping crime thriller set on New Zealand's wild west coast, 'Softly Calls the Devil'

Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the top down, in 'Looking From the North'

Amra Pajalic on her thrilling Balkan war murder mystery, 'Time Kneels Between Mountains'

Joanna Nell on her heart-warming story celebrating life and love in, 'The Funeral Crashers'

Suzanne Leal on her Historical Novel Society Australasia 2025 award-winning novel for young readers, 'The Year We Escaped'

Tasma Walton and Robbie Arnott on their Historical Novel Society Australasia 2025 award-winning novels

Katie Edmiston from Queensland State Library on 'How do you Library?'

Garry Disher on the fifth in the Hirsch crime thriller series, 'Mischance Creek'

Inga Simpson and Tannya Harricks their new picture book for children, 'The Peach King'

Blake Johnston on surfing success, change and resilience in 'Swellbeing: Everyone Deserves to Feel Awesome'

Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac on their new picture book for children, 'The Legend of Jessie Hickman'

Jessica Mansour-Nahra on her first novel, an eerie gothic psychological thriller, 'The Farm'

Belinda Castles on discovering literary Sydney on foot in 'Walking Sydney'

Toni Jordan on greyhounds, gambling and growing up in her new novel, 'Tenderfoot'

Tanya Scott on her high-octane debut crime thriller, 'Stillwater'

Adam Courtenay on the dynamic, complex and driven man in his memoir 'My Father Bryce'

Mike Amor on the highs and lows of a career as a foreign correspondent in 'News Cowboys'

Olivia Purvis on her first book for young children, 'Where's Moon?'

Belinda Lyons Lee on her gothic horror story, 'The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson'

Kaarina Parker on a remarkable woman of the Ancient Roman Empire, 'Fulvia'

Sarah Di Lorenzo on the steps to transform your liver health in 'The Liver Repair Plan'

Simon Mustoe on unlocking the power of nature in 'How to Survive the Next 100 Years'

Erna Walraven on her memoir about zoo-keeping and feminism, 'Hear Me Roar'

Jessica Townsend on the fourth book in her Nevermoor series, 'Silverborn The Mystery of Morrigan Crow'

Raina MacIntyre on science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress in 'Vaccine Nation'

Dianne Wolfer and Erica Wagner on the retelling of an Australian classic in 'The Colt From Old Regret'

Stephen Gapps on Australia's unknown colonial history 'Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844'

Kate Grenville on her Australian family pilgrimage in 'Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place

'How to Be Normal' Q&A with author Ange Crawford and Cerdon College Merrylands

Judy Friedlander on her new book for kids, 'The Bee Squad: Boosting Biodiversity in Your Neighbourhood'

Porscia Lam on a life changing journey in 'The Unlocking: An Autism Story'

Ronni Salt on her debut crime thriller about guns, drugs and small town life in 'Gunnawah'

Judy King on a childhood betrayed and reclaimed in 'Agnes'

Garth Nix on his new novel for kids, 'We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord'

Isobelle Carmody on a reluctant hero on an epic quest into an alternative dream world in 'Comes the Night'

Chris Baker on life, love, memory and taking the plunge in 'Swimming Sydney'

Chris Hammer on small town crime and blood relatives in 'The Valley'

Melissa Lucashenko on her 2024 Historical Novel Society award-winning novel, 'Edenglassie'

Beverley McWilliams on her 2024 Historical Novel Society prize-winning novel for children, 'Spies in the Sky'

Kathy Mexted on the incredible stories of Australian women who reach for the sky in 'Take Flight'

Emily Rodda on her epic three part fantasy adventure, 'Landovel'

Tim Winton on a story of catastrophe, survival and the power of humanity in 'Juice'

Justin Fox on the pathway to his first novel, 'Quietly Waiting'

Dr Norman Swan on his latest book, 'So You Want to Know What's Good For Your Kids?'

Science fiction author Sean Williams, illustrator Connor Chamberlain and John Goodwin on the 40th Anniversary Volume of 'Writers of the Future'

Elfie Shiosaki on the galaxy of Noongar stories in her new poetry collection, 'Refugia'

Shelley Davidow on love in Berlin and the creative urge in 'The Girl With the Violin'

Michael Robotham on twenty years of crime fiction and his new thriller, 'Storm Child'

Katherine Allum on her debut novel set in the American Southwest, 'The Skeleton House'

Yuot Alaak on an incredible journey in his memoir, 'Father of the Lost Boys'

Dr Clare Bailey on enjoying the things you love to eat in 'The Fast 800 Keto Treats Recipe Book'

Gerard McCann on the unspoken truth of child sexual abuse in his memoir 'Anatomy of a Secret'

Julia Lawrinson on a life less ordinary in her memoir, 'How to Avoid a Happy Life'

Ben Miller on his illustrated fairytale mash-up, 'Diary of a Big Bad Wolf'

Nadia Wheatley on Charmian Clift's final, unfinished novel, 'The End of the Morning'

Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion on a mental health story of heart and humour, 'The Glass House'

Kathy Lette on getting the better of the patriarchy in 'The Revenge Club'

Dr Vanessa Pirotta dives into the mysterious world of whales in 'Humpback Highway'

Sydel Sierra on the power of cryptocurrencies and how to invest the right way in, 'All Time High'

Candice Fox on disrupting the hero trope in her latest thriller, 'Devil's Kitchen'

Rachael Johns on love, romance and the power of books in 'The Other Bridget'

Julie Janson on the dangerous lives of Aboriginal women in colonial New South Wales in 'Compassion'

Nam Le on his new book of poetry, '36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem'

David Goodwin on working at the coal-face of retail in 'Servo: 'Tales from the Graveyard Shift'

Mariah Sweetman on the thrilling story of her great-great grandfather in 'Robert Runs'

Alecia Simmonds on love and marriage in 'Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law'

Dassi Erlich on her memoir that goes inside the secret ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, 'In Bad Faith'

James Foley on his brilliant full colour graphic novels for kids, 'Brobot', 'Gastronauts' and 'Stellarphant'

Linda Margolin Royal on a story inspired by the Japanese Schindler, 'The Star on the Grave'

Skye McKenna on the continuing magical journey for fledgeling witch Cassie Morgan in 'Woodwitch'

Isobel Bevis on connecting children to Noongar culture in 'Nedingar' - Ancestors

Helen Milroy on her two new books for young children, 'Bush Bugs' and 'Crow Baby'

Annette Higgs on her first novel set in 19th century Tasmania, 'On A Bright Hillside in Paradise'

Jack Heath on an unforgettable romantic weekend away in 'Kill Your Husbands'

Tracy Ryan on two remarkable Renaissance women of the Navarre in 'The Queen's Apprenticeship'

Charlotte Wood on contemplating life's big questions in 'Stone Yard Devotional'

Rachelle Unreich on 'A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust'

Katharine J Adams on the dark and magical world of her new YA novel, 'Tonight I Burn'

Quentin Beresford goes inside Australia's biggest corporate scandals in 'Rogue Corporations'

Andy McNab on 'The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban'

Robyn Davidson on time, memory and a life driven by curiosity in 'Unfinished Woman'

Gail Jones on her 2023 Historical Novel Society Australasia prize-winning book, 'Salonika Burning'

Amelia Mellor on her 2023 Historical Novel Society Australasia prize-winning book in the YA category, 'The Bookseller's Apprentice'

Paul Bangay on his journey from child gardener to design icon in 'A Life in Garden Design'

Val McDermid on the latest in the DCI Karen Pirie series of crime thrillers, 'Past Lying'

Levi Pinfold on illustrating a magical world for the 'The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac'

Molly Schmidt on small-town racism and the power of human connection in 'Salt River Road'

Sasha Kutabah Sarago on the Indigenous ideal of beauty and her journey to understand it in 'Gigorou'

James O'Hanlon on discovering the incredible world of spiders in 'Silk and Venom'

Anna Funder on Eileen O'Shaughnessy, the woman who made George Orwell in 'Wifedom'

Susan Duncan on love, community and the pleasures of life in 'Sleepless in Stringybark Bay'

Madonna King on 'Saving Our Kids The Inside Story of Taskforce Argos'

Deborah Fitzgerald on 'Her Sunburnt Country The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar'

Kirsty Manning on a story of courage and resilience in 'The Hidden Book'

Wendy Holden on the inside story of the young Diana Spencer in 'The Princess'

Otto English goes in search of the truth behind the myths of our 'Fake Heroes'

Roger Simpson on the truth behind the Jane Halifax character in Halifax Resurrection.

Kate Mildenhall on connecting women's stories across time in 'The Hummingbird Effect'

Peter Papathanasiou on a West Australian road trip like no other in 'The Pit'

Dennis Glover on the legend and the legacy of R F Scott's Antarctic expedition in 'Thaw'

Matt Majendie on life and death with the big-wave surfers in 'Nazare'

Sam Twyford-Moore on the ins and outs of Australian actors in Hollywood in 'Cast Mates'

Frank Bongiorno on Mungo MacCallum's classic political inventory 'The Good, The Bad and the Unlikely

Mark Brandi on the cargo of hopes, dreams and disappointment aboard 'Southern Aurora'

Professor Phil Hansbro on the science and nutrition behind a healthy gut in 'The Good Gut Anti-Inflammatory Diet'

Kelly Rimmer on the courageous Special Operations Executives of World War II in 'The Paris Agent'

Peter Burke on the atheist among the Swan River missionaries in 'The Silk Merchant's Son'

Katherine Kovacic on the affection and connection we have with our canine friends in 'Australia's Dogs'

Om Dhungel on losing everything and finding Australia in 'Bhutan to Blacktown'

Anthony Cooper on the war correspondents who volunteered for a suicide mission in 'Despatch From Berlin, 1943'

Kerri Sackville on the joys and benefits of a little alone time in 'The Secret Life of You'

Kim Anderson on the controversial Australian portrait that changed the nation in 'The Prize'

Catherine Therese on her first novel 'Things She Would Have Said Herself'

Justin Cronin on building strange new worlds where nothing is as it seems in 'The Ferryman'

Anne Tiernan on family trauma and running from the past in her first novel, 'The Last Days of Joy'

Dianne Yarwood on life, death, friendship and great food in 'The Wakes'

Toni Jordan on her hilarious new comedy about losing control, 'Prettier If She Smiled More'

Ros Ben Moshe on the healing power of laughter in 'The Laughter Effect'

Stephanie Bishop on her dark and compulsive novel about creativity and desire, 'The Anniversary'

Pip Williams on the transcendent power of books in 'The Bookbinder of Jericho'

Margaret Simons on one of Australia's most influential women in 'Tanya Plibersek On Her Own Terms'

Christine Kenneally on institutional abuse, murder and the search for justice in 'Ghosts of the Orphanage'

Kate Auty on the true story of the Forrest River massacre in 'O'Leary of the Underworld'

Ali Lowe on keeping up with murder in 'The Running Club'

Paul Ashford Harris on the cycles of history in 'Love, Oil and the Fortunes of War'

Deepti Kapoor on a world fuelled by greed, pleasure and violence in India's 'Age of Vice'

Paul Biegler answers a big question in 'Why Does It Still Hurt?'

Benison O'Reilly and Seana Smith on the new and updated edition of the Australian Autism Handbook

Sam and Paul Harvey on the Smash Hits of Nick Kyrgios

James Weir on the heroes and villains of reality TV in 'The Hemsworth Effect'

Jack Heath on the latest book in the deliciously dark and twisted Timothy Blake series 'Headcase'

Frank Bongiorno on the first full political history of Australia 'Dreamers and Schemers'

Anita Heiss on 'Growing Up Wiradjuri: Stories from the Wiradjuri Nation'

Don Watson on a window into Australia's past and present in 'The Passion of Private White'

Tom Keneally on his 2022 Historical Novel Society's prize-winning story 'Corporal Hitler's Pistol'

Katrina Nannestad on her prize-winning story for children 'Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief'

Jennifer Whelan and Deirdre Brandner on their new 'Bear' series of books for young children and parents

Allen C Jones on a tale of apocalypse and survival in 'Her Death Was Also Water'

Paddy Manning on the high-stakes life of Lachlan Murdoch in 'The Successor'

Inga Simpson on her love letter to cricket and music 'Willowman'

Janet Evanovich on the riotous new Stephanie Plum mystery thriller 'Going Rogue'

Cressida Cowell on the maps of the imagination in 'Which Way To Anywhere'

Amelia Mellor on the magic of books and exploring history in 'The Bookseller's Apprentice'

Mia Swainson on simple ways to live a climate positive lifestyle in ' Happy Planet Living'

Dominique Roques on sourcing the ingredients for the great fragrances of the world 'In Search of Perfumes'

Andy McNab on the true story of the secret mission to catch a Taliban warlord in 'The Hunt'

Ross Garnaut on the opportunity to secure Australia's prosperity in a zero-carbon future in 'The Superpower Transformation'

Danielle Clode on the history and science behind a slow-moving Australian icon in 'Koala: A Life in Trees'

Roger Simpson on getting inside the mind of forensic psychologist Jane Halifax in 'Halifax: Transgression'

Ruth Ware on isolation and claustrophobia in her latest psychological thriller 'The It Girl'

Michelle Lee on the challenges and rewards of rowing the world's great oceans in 'Alone'

Kate Temple on her first solo book for kids 'The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat'

Geoff Nadin on the Stewart Dawson family fortune won and lost in 'Treasure House'

Elaine Pearson on a life in pursuit of human rights in 'Chasing Wrongs and Rights'

Joelle Gergis on the challenge we all face in 'Humanity's Moment: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope'

Zoulfa Katouh on love in the time of war in 'As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow'

Andy McNab on his latest book for kids 'My Mum Is A Spy'

Isabel Vincent on the two sisters who rescued opera's Jewish stars from the Third Reich in 'Overture of Hope'

Michael Veitch on the unsung heroes of the WWII Coastwatchers in 'Australia's Secret Army'

Dr Ben Bravery on putting the heart back into healthcare in 'The Patient Doctor'

Nilesh Makwana on 'Terminal 4 - An Entrepreneur's Journey From Bicycle to Business Class'

Kathy Reichs on super sleuth forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan's 21st thriller 'Cold, Cold Bones'

Daryl Van Tongeren on how to understand and use the quiet power of an ancient virtue in 'Humble'

Tori Haschka on a heart-rending story of how food connects and heals in 'A Recipe For Family'

Sam Vincent on an honest and hilarious story of succession in 'My Father And Other Animals'

J P Pomare on the private investigator haunted by his home town in 'The Wrong Woman'

Leigh Straw on the true crime story that gripped Australia in the 1920s in 'The Ballroom Murder'

Sophie Green on a story of friendship and fresh beginnings in 'The Bellbird River Country Choir'

Brian Freeman on Jason Bourne's biggest threat yet in Robert Ludlum's 'The Bourne Sacrifice'

Alistair Paton on the rollicking history of Australia's amateur scientists in 'Of Marsupials and Men'

Colin Burgess on the astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp in 'Destination Buchenwald'

Christine Sykes on the joys of movement and friendship in 'The Tap Cats of the Sunshine Coast'

Lisa Barr on love, sex, history and the epic struggle to reclaim stolen art in 'Woman On Fire'

James O'Loghlin on crime, punishment and redemption in 'Criminals'

Michael Robotham on the third in Cyrus Haven crime fiction series, 'Lying Beside You'

Carmel Bird on reading, writing and remembering in her memoir Telltale

Geraldine Brooks on the grim legacy of American slavery, racism and injustice in 'Horse'

Sandi Logan on the most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history in 'Betrayed'

Phil Barker on the rise and fall of Australian magazines in 'Axed! Who Killed Australian Magazines?'

Wendy Davis on speaking up in 'Don't Make a Fuss: It's Only the Claremont Serial Killer'

Dr John Tickell on 'Your Best Immunity: Build Resistance the ACE Way'

Matthew Spencer on his brilliant debut crime thriller 'Black River'

Margaret Cunneen SC on a remarkable career in 'The Boxing Butterfly'

Caroline Petit on an epic love story across three continents in 'The Natural History of Love'

Caroline Beecham on an exceptional World War II heroine in 'Esther's Children'

Sophie Cachia on a life-changing moment in 'And Then There Was Her'

Victoria Purman on the unsung heroes of World War I in 'The Nurses' War'

Chloe Hooper on the dark and light of storytelling in 'Bedtime Story'

Three generations of Silbery women reflect on personal memories and life's lessons in 'Out of the Box'

Diane Connell on a force to be reckoned with in 'The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird'

Shelley Burr on an unsolved disappearance that haunts a small farming community in 'WAKE'

A F Steadman on the magical world of unicorns in 'Skandar and the Unicorn Thief'

Catherine Deveny on emerging from oppression and finding her tribe in 'True North'

Jackie Huggins and Ngaire Jarro on a remarkable indigenous serviceman in 'Jack of Hearts QX11594'

Mark Tedeschi on the double murder case that gripped Australia in 'Missing Presumed Dead'

Ruth Wilson on the healing power of literature in 'The Jane Austen Remedy'

Lauren Chater on the secrets locked up in 17th century clothing in 'The Winter Dress'

Eliza Hull on the trials of disabled parenting in 'We've Got This: Stories By Disabled Parents'

Rosie Andrews on a dark and disturbing period in English history in 'The Leviathan'

Jane Caro on the horrors of family violence in 'The Mother'

Annabel Abbs on the story of Britain's first great cookery author in 'The Language of Food'

Julie Bennett on the grand passion of opera and the underbelly of ambition in 'The Understudy'

Megan Albany on an exceptionally ordinary life and death in 'The Very Last List of Vivian Walker'

Michael Schur on 'How To Be Perfect: The Correct Answer To Every Moral Question'

Margaret Taft on a remarkable partnership in 'Leo and Mina Fink: For The Greater Good'

Dr Michael Mosley on eating well, burning fat and managing weight long term in 'The Fast 800 Keto'

Jillian Cantor on recasting an American classic in 'Beautiful Little Fools'

Indyana Schneider on the pleasure and the pain of first love in '28 Questions'

Kerri Maher on the history-making story of Sylvia Beach in 'The Paris Bookseller'

Michael Trant on creating an authentic Australian story in 'Wild Dogs'

Tony Wellington on 'Freak Out: How a Musical Revolution Rocked the World in the Sixties'

Ben Sanders on the hardboiled crime fiction of New York City in 'Exit.45'

Ann Patchett on what it all means in 'These Precious Days'

John Hughes on recasting the stories of the ancients in 'Tales From The Greek'

Jock Serong on the harrowing story of love and adventure on the high seas in 'The Burning Island'

Christine Manfield on bringing the world of Indian cuisine back home in 'Indian Cooking Class'

David Hunt on Australia's journey from colony to nationhood in 'Girt Nation'

Lynne McGranger on a full and joyous life in 'Acting Up: Me Myself and Irene'

Jaclyn Moriarty on 'The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar From Elsewhere'

Inga Simpson on the perils of a post-apocalyptic world in 'The Last Woman in the World'

Peter Fitzsimons on 'The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's Greatest Explorer'

Christian White on the dangers lurking behind the peaceful facade of suburbia in 'Wild Place'

Katrina Nannestad on the remarkable true story of the Wolfskinder in 'We Are Wolves'

Heather Morris on a remarkable story of courage and survival in 'Three Sisters'

Nicci French on turning the everyday into a nail-biting psychological thriller in 'The Unheard'

Samantha-Ellen Bound on magical realms in 'Seven Wherewithal Way'

Damien Cave on the Australian way of dealing with risk in 'Into the Rip'

Robert Wainwright on an Australian icon in 'Nellie: The Life and Loves of Dame Nellie Melba'

Karen Foxlee on the healing power of magic and friendship in 'Dragon Skin'

Delia Falconer on how we are changing our inner world in 'Signs and Wonders'

Garry Linnell on the serial killer who shocked the world in The Devil's Work

Lisa Millar on conquering fear and hitting a deadline in 'Daring to Fly'

Rosalba Jeffreys on bringing the story together for Robert Jeffrey's The Final Cut

Leigh Straw on Madam Monnier and Perth's notorious Roe Street brothels in The Petticoat Parade

Professor Ian Lowe on the complexities of the nuclear industry in Australia in Long Half-life.

Sarah Bailey on the thrill of the cold case in The Housemate

John M Green on the third book in the Dr Tori Swyft international spy thriller series, Double Deal

Tim Ayliffe on the rise of the white supremacy movement in The Enemy Within.

Nikki Gemmell on love, female creativity and finding your voice in Dissolve

John Doyle on an Australian sporting legend in Blessed: The Breakout Year of Rampaging Roy Slaven

Tim Richards on the joys of Australian train travel in Heading South

Lisa Jewell on inventing characters and solving a crime as you write in 'The Night She Disappeared'

Auntie Di on forgiving the past and discovering her true identity in 'Daughter of the River Country'

Larissa Behrendt on the mother-daughter trip of a life time in After Story

Dr Norman Swan takes on the wellness 'bullshit' in So You Think You Know What's Good For You?

Brigid Lowry on kindness, honesty and nourishing the soul in 'A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself'

Helen Vines on separating fact from fiction in 'Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers'

Brian Herd on planning for your ageing parents in Avoiding The Ageing Parent Trap

David Price on Western Australian frontier justice in 'Dark Tales from the Long River'

Sinéad Stubbins on achieving self perfection, and her debut book 'In My Defence I Have No Defence'

Clare Moleta on writing her debut novel and bridging the real and imagined in Unsheltered.

Kate Holden on the Croppa Creek killing that rocked NSW in 'The Winter Road'

Kyle Mewburn on a life in transition in her memoir 'Faking It'

Rod Barton on his accidental entry into the world of espionage in 'The Life of a Spy'

T W Lawless and Kay Bell on recreating a real Australian character in 'Furey's War'

Kathryn Heyman on her memoir, 'Fury', and summoning the power to redraw the roadmap of her life

Elfie Shiosaki on Noongar women's stories of resilience in 'Homecoming'

Rebecca Wilson on the untold story of Ned Kelly's little sister Kate Kelly

Lisa Genova on why forgetting isn't as bad as you think, and her first non-fiction book 'Remember'

Madelaine Dickie and Sam Carmody on Australian surf culture in Lines to the Horizon

Elizabeth Becker on three extraordinary female wartime journalists in 'You Don't Belong Here'

Debra Oswald on the ethical and legal dilemmas of exploring family violence in The Family Doctor

Helen Fitzgerald on blue light discos and small town disasters in 'Ash Mountain'

Tanya Bretherton on the post-WWII Sydney women who killed in 'The Husband Poisoner'

Susan Johnson on unlikely friendships in 'From Where I Fell'

Gretel Killeen on the highs and lows of mother-daughter love in My Daughter's Wedding

'Mistakes come from vulnerability' - Katie McMahon on her salacious debut, 'The Mistake'

Madeleine Ryan on autism, self love, and her introspective debut 'A Room Called Earth'

Michael Brissenden on criminal thrills and a lost Sydney in 'Dead Letters'

Maggie Hamilton on reconnecting with others in 'When We Become Strangers'

B Michael Radburn on the thunderous new novel in the Taylor Bridges series, 'The Reach'

Aaron Smith on Australia's cultural and moral divide in 'The Rock'

Craig Sisterson shares the very best of Southern Cross Crime

'There was a need to finish what Tilly Dunnage started' - Rosalie Ham on The Dressmaker's Secret

'We need a different approach': Tim Flannery on solving our climate crisis in 'The Climate Cure'

'You are your baby's favourite rockstar' - Anita Collins on 'The Music Advantage'

Alan Carter on returning to Sergeant Nick Chester and the Wakamarina Valley in 'Doom Creek'

Ronni Kahn on finding her calling in 'A Repurposed Life'

Heather Morris on the art of listening in 'Stories of Hope'

Stella Budrikis on the 1907 trial that gripped Perth, 'The Edward Street Baby Farm'

Ian McGuire unpacks his gritty story of revenge and the past, 'The Abstainer'

Leon Silver on the true family story of love and survival in his book 'The Miracle Typist'

Petronella McGovern unpacks her tense psychological thriller 'The Good Teacher'

Kate Mildenhall talks dystopia, motherhood & the sailing trip of a lifetime in 'The Mother Fault'

Meg Keneally on confronting (and escaping) the past in her colonial-era novel The Wreck

S L Lim on desire, art and the power of resistance in 'Revenge: Murder in three parts'

Andrew Boe on Australia's flawed justice system in 'The Truth Hurts'

Jess Scully on how a better world is possible in 'Glimpses of Utopia'

Rose Carlyle on exciting twists and evil twins

AUGUST BOOK CLUB - A chat with Charlotte McConaghy

'Beyond the Pale': Adrian Tame on his time at Australia's most notorious paper in 'The Awful Truth'

Paddy Manning shares the human cost of climate change in 'Body Count'

Julie Sprigg on the life of a physiotherapist in Ethiopia in 'Small Steps'

Greg James & Chris Smith on the exciting finale of the 'Kid Normal' series

'Fear isn't just natural, it's necessary': Eva Holland on the science behind phobias in 'Nerve'

Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick on changing Australia's history in 'On a Barbarous Coast'

Hayley Katzen on bushfires and belonging in her memoir 'Untethered'

Lucy Worsley on a lifetime of loving Jane Austen

Jon Doust on the misadventure of a lifetime in 'Return Ticket'

Fiona Harris & Mike McLeish on tackling schoolyard drama in their parental comedy 'The Drop-Off'

Shannon Molloy on 'Fourteen', his memoir of growing up gay in Central Queensland

Lauren Chater on telling the untold story of a classic in 'Gulliver's Wife'

'Australia saved me': Ayik Chut Deng on life as a Sudanese child soldier in 'The Lost Boy'

'Are some deceptions necessary?': Suzanne Leal on betrayal and family secrets in 'The Deceptions'

Pip Williams on missing words and forgotten women in 'The Dictionary of Lost Words'

Laura Jean McKay on crafting a talking animal apocalypse in 'The Animals in That Country'

Karina Kilmore on merging journalistic drama with docklands crime in 'Where the Truth Lies'

'He would wake up screaming': Ariana Neumann on uncovering her father's past in When Time Stopped

John Kinsella on dialogue, rapacity and living a rural life in his memoir 'Displaced'

Karen Brooks on unearthing forgotten women in her bewitching historical novel 'The Darkest Shore'

Sophie Hardcastle on the colours of the sea and reclaiming your body 'Below Deck'

Tanya Bretherton on the serial murders that gripped Sydney in 'The Killing Streets'

Emily Clements on sex, self and travel in her memoir 'The Lotus Eaters'

Anita Abriel on the true story of survival and hope in 'The Light After the War'

Genevieve Gannon on the real case of an IVF mixup that inspired her family drama 'The Mothers'

How 25 years in the Victorian Police Force shaped D L Hicks' debut crime novel 'The Devil Inside'

Emma Viskic took a road trip with Jock Serong, Sulari Gentill and Robert Gott

‘It’s not beyond us to achieve this’: Peter Singer's plan to eradicate world poverty

'It wasn't pretty': Benjamin Gilmour on his darkest month working as a paramedic in Sydney

'Journalists have license to put their nose where it's not wanted': Chris Hammer on ‘Silver’

'It's a sunny place for shady people': Michael Connelly on returning to LA in 'The Night Fire'

Heather Rose on sand, sunburn and building a bridge to Bruny

'Dude, it was like an exorcism': Holden Sheppard on writing his YA LGBTQI+ novel Invisible Boys

'I will always be sad when I read those chapters': Mary Moody on cancer, compost and cracking on

Katherine Johnson on the hidden history of 19th century human zoos

Heather Morris on the woman who survived Auschwitz and a Siberian Gulag

Jamil Jivani on why young men are being turned to violence, and what we can do to stop it

'We had no idea what life was going to be': Bernadette Agius on raising a son with Down syndrome

Ondine Sherman on Alaskan hunters, bad grammar and a bustling backyard zoo

Philippa Gregory: 'It’s extraordinary how little ordinary women have been recorded in history.'

Paullina Simons: 'This isn't a romance. It's a love story.'

'This man was broken': Tony Buti on Australia's only successful Stolen Generations claimant

Melbourne co-authors Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus have never had an argument

James Dunk on illness, chaos and delusion in Australia's early colonies

The death-defying adventures of Katherine Rundell

'We prefer to forget': Armando Lucas Correa on the doomed voyage of the S.S. St. Louis

Alli Sinclair on how scaling mountains turned her into a storyteller

Craig Ensor's literary love story set in an Australia ravaged by climate change

Alex Landragin didn’t write the most daring debut novel in decades – he stole it

How Aboriginal peoples brought Australian animals to the attention of the world

‘Majestic, murky, malevolent and magnificent’: Irishman James Delargy on the outback

Finn Brunton on what you need to know about cryptocurrency

Mary-Rose MacColl on a royal derailed and Diana's undoing

Markus Zusak: 'We are all made of stories'

Felicity McLean on Australian Gothic, missing children and Jatz Crackers

Susan Hurley on her thriller inspired by a botched medical trial

Matt Howard's accidental life in books

Stephen Davis on how we can win the War on Truth

Karen Brooks on how chocolate 'changed the complexion of society'

Jaclyn Moriarty: 'I think I'm a bit hopeless at life'

How photography at the Australian Museum aided Darwin's theories

Would Jack Heath mind being eaten?

Simon Cleary on the artistry of tattoos and Australia's longest war

Peggy Frew on the novel she began as a teenager

Jeremy N Smith on befriending a powerful hacker called Alien

Jennifer Spence on slipping back into your own past

Jacqueline Kent on falling in love with the man behind Wake in Fright

Yotam Ottolenghi on why writing Simple was ‘excruciatingly difficult’

Dave Warner & Alan Carter on why Aussie & NZ crime fiction is better than Scandi noir

Pip Drysdale on using military strategy during breakups

John Newton on Australia's 'mongrel cuisine'

Frauke Bolten-Boshammer on pink diamonds and red dust

Paul Ham on the grisly death of Christendom’s most defiant sect

Lee Child on Jack Reacher's fork in the road

Karen Foxlee on the world-broadening magic of encyclopedias

Chloe Hooper on the Black Saturday bushfires: ‘It was like lighting a bomb’

Minette Walters on the silver lining of the Black Death

The deadly sins of Mikey Robins

Three young fans quiz YA author Lynette Noni

Stephanie Alexander on how to attack a pomegranate

Ben Quilty on the book that should be in every school, lounge room and library

Laura Tingle on political chaos and YA fiction

John Purcell: 'I always thought books were deadly, deadly boring'

Holly Throsby on why a book tour trumps a music tour

Wanda Wiltshire on creating the perfect love triangle

Meg Gatland-Veness: 'It all started when a kid died'

Gus & Steve Worland on tackling men's mental health with dad jokes

Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull, is furious about the Australian legal system (and chickpeas)

Kate Rossmanith on investigating remorse, bias in the legal system and 'animating the soup'

Chris Hammer on Scrublands, reporting from Texas and Gaza, and tough love from Peter Temple

Australia has pokies the way America has guns: Drew Rooke's investigation into the gambling industry

Crime on Display: Sarah Bailey on a movie set murder and her divisive detective, Gemma Woodstock

Sulari Gentill on the Pyjama Girl Murder, Australia's Fascist New Guard, and stories in the stars