All Episodes

Episode 65 Laila’s Story told by refugee activist author and poet Mij Tanith

Episode 63 - Meet Vikings and murderers in two very different books

Episode 52: “Delirious” by Damien Wilkins + how to style a second hand bookshop

Episode 51: “High Wire” by Candice Fox + new literary journal, “Splinter”

Episode 50: “The Burrow” by Melanie Cheng + “Alias Grace” by Margaret Atwood

Episode 49: To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon + remembering Beryl Bainbridge

Episode 48: Robbie Arnott + Hannah Ferguson + Tsundoku’s best books of 2024

Episode 47: Markus Zusak’s “Three Wild Dogs and the Truth” + revisiting Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women”

Episode 46: Sean Williams; guru of speculative fiction and fantasy + Kylie Cardell dissects the “gloriously unhinged” work of Miranda July and Rachel Yoder

Episode 45: The Romance Edition

Episode 44: Amy Stewart’s tales of arboreal obsession in “The Tree Collectors” + Don Binney, New Zealand’s favourite bird artist remembered in “Flight Path”

Episode 43: “The End And Everything Before It” by Finegan Kruckemeyer + “Don’t Tell Alfred” by Nancy Mitford

Episode 42: “This Devastating Fever” by Sophie Cunningham + The Jewish Men’s Book Club

Episode 41: “The Work” by Bri Lee + “The Radio Hour” by Victoria Purman

Episode 40: “The Accident” by Fiona Lowe + “Suddenly Single at Sixty” by Jo Peck

Episode 39: Tension builds in Miranda Darling’s "Thunderhead" + Bel Schenk portrays teen angst in "The Most Famous Boy in Town"

Minsode 38.5: Thrilling Australian crime with debut novelist Louise Milligan

Episode 38: Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens + Storyland; A new mythology of Britain

Episode 37: Dive into the world of poetry with Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton + veteran poet and broadcaster Mike Ladd on ‘why be a poet?’

Minisode 36.5: Molly Schmidt’s "Salt River Road"

Episode 36: “The Disorganisation of Celia Stone” + the secret life of a romance writer

Episode 35: Paddy O’Reilly’s “Other Houses” + The timeless Anne of Green Gables

Episode 34: Sarah Smith’s “12 Steps to a Long and Fulfilling Death” + Is book translation an art or science?

Minisode 33.5: Trent Dalton’s new novel "Lola in the Mirror"

Episode 33: Fashion, feminism and war with Natasha Lester + a rock’n’roll mystery from Dave Warner

Minisode 32.5: Discovering the unwritten histories of women with Pip Williams

Episode 32: Justin Cronin’s latest dystopian thriller will grip you from the first page to the last + PhD candidate, Georgia Nicholls, reveals the romance titles sweeping young women off their feet.

Episode 31: Meet Leslie Bird, fiction’s most abrasive woman + the First Nation men who started an arts movement

Episode 30: Chris Hammer thrills in “The Tilt” + Aldous Huxley; perennially prescient

Episode 29: Three successful authors share their tips on How to Get Published!

Episode 28: Crack the case in Garry Disher’s “Day’s End” + The distinct style and tone of literary journalism

Episode 27: “The Sun Walks Down”, an Australian classic in the making + the curious legacy of Barry Humphries

Episode 26: Troubled love in Louise Kennedy’s “Trespasses” + the 18th Century “cancelling” of Captain Cook

Episode 25: Shannon Burn’s literary salvation + Greek myth-busting with “Pandora’s Jar”

Episode 24: Vikki Wakefield’s thrilling adult debut + a brilliant memoir of Andy Warhol

Episode 23: How to be Stoic in Modern Times + "The Bloody Chamber"

Ep 22: The Last Days of Roger Federer + Unforgettable Iris

Ep 21: Gracie Flynn may be dead, but she’s not gone + Louise Adler’s Adelaide Writers’ Week

Ep 20: A female mortician meets a bloke from the bush in Fiona McIntosh’s “The Orphans” + why an Excel spreadsheet is invaluable when writing historical fiction

EP 19: Black comedy in aged care in “The Castaways of Harewood Hall” + Are librarians romance snobs?

Minisode 18.5: A Personal Journey Of Spiritual Discovery in 'Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here'

Ep 18: Holiday reads

Ep 17: Grace Chan’s speculative fiction “Every Version of You” + the shocking genius of Philip Roth

Ep 16: Adventures in Paris in "My Sweet Guillotine" + 20th century women writers get their own showcase

Minisode 15.5: A world quest for a religion where women have power in "Holy Woman"

Ep 15:  Victoria Hannan’s Marshmallow  + John Wyndham’s 1950’s novel The Midwich Cuckoos

Ep 14: Chilling out with crime writers new and old; Vikki Petraitis + Agatha Christie

Ep 13: In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World + the healing power of bibliotherapy

Ep 12: Psalms for the End of the World + My Extraordinary Mum

Minisode 11.5 Facing death with a To-Do list in The Very Last List of Vivian Walker

Ep 11: Rattled explores the subtle terror of being stalked + Why Viking tales never lose their mystique

Minisode 10.5 Scottish noir with a fairytale edge in Charlotte McConaghy’s “Once There Were Wolves”

Ep 10: Ghost Tattoo tells the hidden story of one man’s Holocaust + The mercurial nature of the memoir

Ep 09: "Basin" by Scott McCulloch journeys through the apocalyptic and surreal + An early 70s fantasy classic from Ursula Le Guin

Ep 08: The latest masterpiece from Geraldine Brooks + a poetic classic from Joe Brainard, one of the art world’s most original creators

Ep 07: Twenty-four seasons of love, loss and food in Japan + the ever-changing allure of the recipe book

Ep 06: A wild woman of 19th century Australia + the classic books that still keep the cash registers ringing

Ep 05: A crime thriller about the devil you know + family dysfunction 1930s style still hits a nerve

Ep 04: Finding utopias and dystopias in mystic India + a darker side to Jane Eyre's man Rochester

Ep 03: Faith, love and a flight to freedom + immersion in a Woolfe classic

Ep 02: A road trip into America’s dark heart + travelling in the footsteps of heroes

Ep 01: A Muslim father’s love letter + revisiting an Australian gothic classic

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