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The SBS Book Club
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Grab your favourite nibbles and take a seat for the SBS Book Club, hosted by Sarah Malik. Read and listen along as we delve into the year’s best novels - chatting with some of the biggest names in Australian publishing including Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko, Shankari Chandran, Mirandi Riwoe and more. We’ll discuss the book characters you love, hate, and love to hate. We'll dive into portrayals of what Australia was, is and could be. And we'll explore themes of war, race, family, friendship, love and the power of a great story. Get ready for some book club brawls and good times.
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Debra Dank’s stories of outback Aboriginal life are an ode to Country
Gudanji-Wakaja author Dr Debra Dank talks to SBS Book Club host Sarah Malik about her debut book 'We Come With This Place', which has been labelled a jewel to rival Australia's great desert memoirs.
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Mirandi Riwoe writes about love and war through the eyes of Eurasian women
In this episode of the SBS Book Club, author Mirandi Riwoe talks to Sarah Malik about writing the historical novel ‘Sunbirds’, and her fascination with exploring the Eurasian experience and cross-cultural relationships. Riwoe won the 2020 Queensland Literary Prize and the ARA Historical Novel Prize for her first book 'Stone Sky Gold Mountain'.
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Yumna Kassab explores love across social divides in ‘The Lovers’
Miles Franklin shortlisted author Yumna Kassab talks to Sarah Malik about her poetic novel 'The Lovers'. It's an unlikely romance between characters Jamila and Aamir, inspired by Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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Tony Birch tackles the culture of silence around family violence in 'Women & Children'
Author Tony Birch’s latest novel 'Women & Children' is an exploration of family dynamics and domestic violence in working class Melbourne in the 1960s. Told through the eyes of eleven-year-old Joe Cluny, the story is a complex and sensitive picture of a family struggling within a culture of inertia and silence.
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Melissa Lucashenko on busting colonial myths in her sweeping novel 'Edenglassie'
Edenglassie is the latest novel from acclaimed Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko. It tells an epic story about white settlement from a First Nations' perspective. The author chats with Sarah Malik in this episode of The SBS Book Club.
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Shankari Chandran on telling Sri Lankan stories in 'Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens'
After being told her work "wasn't Australian enough" to get published, author Shankari Chandran was thrilled when her novel 'Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens' won Australia's top literary prize, the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award. The author sits down with Sarah Malik in this first episode of The SBS Book Club podcast.
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Introducing The SBS Book Club
Grab your favourite nibbles and take a seat for a new podcast from SBS Audio, the SBS Book Club. Read along with host Sarah Malik every week as she chats with some of the biggest names in Australian publishing.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Grab your favourite nibbles and take a seat for the SBS Book Club, hosted by Sarah Malik. Read and listen along as we delve into the year’s best novels - chatting with some of the biggest names in Australian publishing including Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko, Shankari Chandran, Mirandi Riwoe and more. We’ll discuss the book characters you love, hate, and love to hate. We'll dive into portrayals of what Australia was, is and could be. And we'll explore themes of war, race, family, friendship, love and the power of a great story. Get ready for some book club brawls and good times.
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Grab your favourite nibbles and take a seat for the SBS Book Club, hosted by Sarah Malik. Read and listen along as we delve into the year’s best novels - chatting with some of the biggest names in Australian publishing including Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko, Shankari Chandran, Mirandi Riwoe and...
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