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41:50

Katharine Pollock’s Starry Eyed

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/11/20

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Dr Katharine Pollock (PhD) is the author of Her Fidelity. Her new novel is Starry Eyed. To say that Scarlett Fever is the centre of Addilyn’s universe would be to imply that there is only a finite number of universes and that Scarlett

35:12

Sally Hepworth’s Mad Mabel

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/11/17

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Sally Hepworth is a New York Times bestselling author of ten novels. Her novels have been translated into over 30 languages. Sally’s novel The Family Next Door has recently been adapted for television. Sally joins us today with her new

3:55

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

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/11/11

33:22

Luke Johnson’s King Tide

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/11/07

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Luke Johnson is a physiotherapist and writer from Victoria. He’s joining us today with his debut novel King Tide. When you’re young in a small town it can feel like there’s not much to do. So you make your own fun. Maybe it’s footy,

42:00

Mark Mupotsa-Russell’s The Wolf Who Cried Boy

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/11/03

3:48

Book Club - Rhett Davis’s Arborescence

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/10/31

Rhett Davis is the author of Hovering. Today we’ve got his new novel ArborescenceArborescence is the state of having the root and branch like structures of a tree. Importantly it’s a noun, but Rhett Davis asks us to imagine if it were a verb… Caelyn is at a loss. She’s bouncing between jobs that she quickly loses, like when she gets fired from a nursery for taking home the dying plants (they considered it stealing!). She hates that we’re destroying the world but feels powerless to stop it. When

20:32

In Conversation - Maeve Marsden - Artistic Director...

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/10/27

Andrew is joined In Conversation by Maeve Marsden. Maeve is the Artistic Director of Blue Mountains Writers Festival and the two explore programming a festival and exploring ideas that not everyone agrees with. The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Final Draft is produced

30:38

January Gilchrist’s The Final Chapter

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/10/25

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. January Gilchrist is Brisbane based author. Her debut novel is The Final Chapter Writers’ retreats are supposed to be about creativity. In the gardens of Thorne House and the surrounding bush writers, poets and creatives search for

3:53

Book Club - Sally Hepworth’s Mad Mabel

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/10/22

Sally Hepworth is a New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, with her novel The Family Next Door having recently been adapted for television. Today I’ve got for you her new novel Mad Mabel. Elsie just wants a quiet life. She’s been more than thirty years in her quiet little Melbourne lane and she’d happily stay thirty more if she thought she had that much time left. Unfortunately for Elsie her elderly neighbour Ishaan has to go and die. Nothing suspicious of course and poor Elsie is the

35:43

Brandon Jack’s Pissants

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/10/19

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Brandon Jack is the author of the acclaimed memoir 28. Brandon’s debut novel is Pissants. Brandon’s also a footballer, who played for the Sydney Swans but on this this show I think we’ll celebrate his writing achievements At the [Name

44:15

Natalia Figueroa Barroso's Hailstones Fell Without Rain

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/10/13

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Natalia Figueroa Barroso is a Sydney author of Uruguayan descent Today we’ll be discussing her debut novel Hailstones Fell Without Rain. Hailstones Fell Without Rain spans fifty years and three generations of women of the Ferreira

31:47

Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Discipline

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/10/09

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Randa Abdel-Fattah is a researcher whose writing covers Islamophobia, race, Palestine, and social movement activism. Her books include Coming of Age in the War on Terror, When Michael met Mina, and 11 Words for Love. Her new novel is

47:17

Naima Brown’s Mother Tongue

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/08/29

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.Naima Brown’s essays have appeared in Vogue, the Guardian, and more. She wrote, along with Melissa Doyle, the non-fiction book How to Age Against the Machine and is the author of The Shot. Mother Tongue is her second novel. Ever since the birth of her daughter Jenny, Brynn’s life

36:51

Jessica Dettmann’s Your Friend and Mine

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/08/27

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Final Draft is produced and presented by Andrew Pople Want more great conversations with Australian authors? Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week.

43:07

Omar Sakr’s The Nightmare Sequence

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/08/22

Omar Sakr’s The Nightmare SequenceOmar is an award winning poet and writer from Western Sydney. His works include the novel, Son of Sin and the poetry collection The Lost Arabs, which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Omar joins us with his new collection The Nightmare Sequence, illustrated by Dr Safdar Ahmed

40:15

Thomas Vowles’s Our New Gods

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/08/17

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Final Draft is produced and presented by Andrew Pople Want more great conversations with Australian authors? Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week. Get in touch with Andrew and Final Draft. We love to hear

3:55

Book Club - Brandon Jack’s Pissants

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/08/15

Brandon Jack is the author of the acclaimed memoir 28. He’s also a footballer, who played for the Sydney Swans and in his debut novel Pissants he combines his sporting prowess and literary flare into a unique and memorable narrative. At an unnamed footy club the reserves team are waiting for the call up to the big leagues. Calling themselves the Pissants, they train at least as much as they complain, honing the skills that keep them nominally in the club’s good books. In the meantime they will

26:40

First Nations Classics - Paul Collis’s Dancing Home

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/08/11

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Samuel Wagan Watson is a poet of Munanjali, Birri Gubba, German, Dutch and Irish descent. He’s won the 1999 David Unaipon Award for Emerging Indigenous Literature, and The Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize amongst others. Paul Collis is a

3:11

Book Club - Thomas Vowles’s Our New Gods

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/08/05

Thomas Vowles is a screenwriter and novelist. Today we’ll be discussing his debut novel Our New Gods.Ash has recently arrived in Melbourne. Like so many who’ve come from a regional town he’s looking to define himself whilst feeling wary of being . When he meets James it’s love-at-first-sight, at least for Ash. James is gorgeous and seems to have everything; great apartment, cool friends, hot boyfriend. James may not want Ash for a lover but his friendship gives Ash entry to a cool new world,

37:59

Matt Rogers’s The Forsaken

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/08/01

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Matt Rogers is the best selling author of more than thirty novels and is joining us today with his new novel, inaugurating his Logan Booth series, The Forsaken. You never know who your neighbours are behind closed doors. Logan Booth is

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