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Freedom, family and an all-consuming love: new fiction from Anindita Ghose, Vigdis Hjorth and Alice Nelson

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Podcast extra: Infidelity and compassion: changing morality in 19th century fiction

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The Book Club: Infidelity

204

Raucous aunts, warriors and dragons, Queer Nigeria and more: new fiction

205

Trinidad, Antarctica and a corporate city-state in not-quite Korea: three new novels for you

206

From Barbados in the 1830s to the Melbourne present via the Scottish imaginary: three new books

207

From frontier western to a wandering ghost: new fiction

208

Serial killers, thrillers and Shirley Hazzard: new books from Bret Easton Ellis and Deepti Kapoor

209

Summer Reading: Where will books take you?

210

Books Extra: Fiona McFarlane's The Sun Walks Down

211

Summer reading: from the afterlife to New Zealand fiction, we have you covered

212

Books Extra: Becky Manawatu and Leila Mottley

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Summer Reading: It's time to catch up on some great books you missed

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Books Extra: Audrey Magee's The Colony

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Summer Reading: love, sex, drugs and mischief

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Books Extra: the criminal (ish) minds of John Darnielle and Charity Norman

217

Summer reading: Islands of the imagination

218

Books Extra: Patrick Gale's Mother's Boy

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Shelflife: Four writers on the books that electrified them (no, not literally)

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Summer reading extra: Republic and Revolution in England with Philippa Gregory

221

Books of the year: 2022 with a panel of readers

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The Book Club: Beyond the boundary

223

Stolen bicycles, stolen love and stolen children: new books by Philip Salom, Celeste Ng and Arinze Ifeakandu

224

Underclass, underground, undone: New Australian fiction from Fiona Kelly McGregor, Shaun Prescott and Yumna Kassab

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Blazing stories: new fiction from Gail Jones, Alex Miller and Luke Carman

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The Book Club: Reading Kamila Shamsie

227

New fiction from Cormac McCarthy, Fiona McFarlane and Cole Haddon

228

George Saunders, Barbara Kingsolver, John Irving: an American Bookshelf

229

Sisters at breaking point, a grizzly bear on the run and living with 100 ex-boyfriends

230

A whale gone mad, fierce Irish love and a Māori detective

231

The Book Club: The ouevre of Ian McEwan

232

Pod extra: Hilary Mantel, the Booker prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy has died

233

Siblings, revelry and fear: Peggy Frew, Kate Atkinson and Adrian McKinty

234

Drugs, gangs, racism and reputation: three new works of fiction

235

A Renaissance wedding, a Mediaeval war and the ghosts of Modernism: three new novels

236

The Book Club: Is crime fiction a literature of resistance? (plus a guide to Korean lit)

237

Three monks in a boat, the last white man, and wild wild women

238

Joan of Arc re-imagined, dystopian coastlines and trees in the Oz literary imagination

239

A champion pedestrianist, an island haunted by grief and running into all your exes

240

Big Weekend of Books at the State Library of NSW: writers special

241

Reviewing the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner and shortlist

242

An urn full of memories, an everlasting lightbulb and what to read next: Chris Womersley's The Diplomat and Anjali Joseph's Keeping in Touch

243

Paul Daley's Jesustown, A G Slatter's The Path of Thorns, and a guide to books for kids

244

Dystopias, ship's monsters and trees: Claire G Coleman, Jokha Alharthi, Jess Kidd and Jane Rawson

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The Book Club: Celebrating Australian literature for the ABC's 90th

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Frank Moorhouse from the ABC Archives: podcast special

247

A Métis family tree and a Sydney Leprosarium: Katherena Vermette's The Strangers and Eleanor Limprecht's The Coast

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Abomination, modernism and crime: new fiction from Ashley Goldberg, Michelle Cahill and Matthew Spencer

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Racecourses, race, sex work and exile: new fiction from Geraldine Brooks, Leila Mottley and Zaheda Ghani

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The Book Club: Horses and their Riders

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Ireland, Italy, England and Oz: four bold new works of fiction

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From the Sydney Writers Festival: The Joy of Re-reading

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From the Sydney Writers Festival: with Jackie Huggins, Damon Galgut and George Haddad

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Making umbrellas in the afterlife: New books from Steve Toltz, Emiliano Monge and Domonique Wilson

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Soap, silences and happy stories (maybe): new fiction from Paddy O'Reilly, Patrick Gale and Norman Erikson Pasaribu

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The Book Club: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad & The Candy House

257

A moon colony, T S Eliot, Shakespeare and pain: new fiction from Emily St John Mandel, Steven Carroll and Mona Awad

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A Glasgow teenager, a Roman emperor and a sneaky revolutionary: new books by Douglas Stuart, Julian Barnes and Charmian Clift

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A snowy Tokyo, a haunted house and a cracked swimming pool: books by Jessica Au, John Darnielle and Julie Otsuka

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The Book Club: reading New Zealand through Keri Hulmes' The Bone People + Lloyd Jones' The Fish

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Mexico, dystopian exile, and Oz suburbia: new fiction from Fernanda Melchor, Toni Jordan and Tom Watson

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Iceland, Nebraska and the Sunshine Coast: new fiction from Robert Lukins, Kári Gíslason and Harlan Coben

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New fiction from Ireland and New Zealand

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The Book Club: Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Love Marriage

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New fiction from Omar Sakr, Karen Joy Fowler and Aoife Clifford

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Reading Korean history, fierce Italian parents and a theme park of funerary futures

267

Reading our way to islands, monsters, balloons, snowscapes, heroes and more

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The Book Club: Rebecca and Rebecca

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Reading Hanya Yanagihara, Gary Shteyngart and Nikki May

270

Pip Williams and The Dictionary of Lost Words

271

Summer Reads: Hannah Kent, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Sunjeev Sahota and Aravind Adiga

272

The Bookshelf that Made Me: Siri Hustvedt & Jennifer Mills

273

Summer Reads: Patricia Lockwood, Ann Patchett, Simon Winchester, Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Jay Kristoff

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The Bookshelf that Made Me: Tilly Lawless & Jon McGregor

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Summer Reads: James Ellroy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Guillermo Martinez and Charlotte McConaghy

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The Bookshelf that Made Me: R W R Mcdonald & Jacqueline Bublitz

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Summer Reading: a wild party, Beowulf, and Gillian Mears

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The Bookshelf that Made Me: Colm Tóibín and Emily Gale

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Summer Reading: Jane Austen, Joan Silber, Kevin Barry and Elizabeth Strout

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The Bookshelf That Made Me: Sarah Winman and Nick Earls

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The Bookshelf That Made Me: Ken Follett, Rose Tremain, Amie Kaufman & Jaclyn Moriarty

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Best Reads 2021 Part 2: General Adult Fiction

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Claudia Karvan and the Books that Made Us: Pod Extra

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The Book Club: John Hughes' The Dogs + Kate Grenville's The Secret River

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Classic Australian Novels - Alexis Wright's Carpentaria

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Classic Australian Novels - Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang

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Classic Australian Novels - Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish

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Classic Australian Novels - Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel

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Classic Australian Novels - Helen Garner's Monkey Grip

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Classic Australian Novels - Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance

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Classic Australian Novels - Kate Grenville's The Secret River

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Best Reads 2021 Part 1: Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

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On Christos Tsiolkas' 7 ½, Vietnamese smoky ghosts & a helluva book

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Behemoths, Novellas and Essays: reading recommendations

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The Book Club: Amor Towles' The Lincoln Highway + Cormac McCarthy's The Road

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Adam Liaw and Hannah Kent: Star Reviewers #4

297

Geraldine Hakewill and Graeme Simsion: Star Reviewers #3

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Tim Rogers and Pip Williams: Star Reviewers #2

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Marta Dusseldorp and John Safran: Star Reviewers #1

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The Book Club: George Eliot's Middlemarch + Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle