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Jan Goldsmith, David McLean and Lisa Moule

Australian and international authors talk about their books and how they got published or how they self-published. Listeners, writers and readers will also hear about what"s going on in our local writing community.

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Tom Valente and Geoff Rollsand and Natasha Lester

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2023/10/19

Tom Valente and Geoff Rolls talk about their written and artistic contributions to 'Synergy' - an anthology of works produced by the Bayside University of the Third Age. Natasha Lester’s historical fiction is of the male dominated fashion industry and the difficulties of three women over three generations wanting acknowledgment of their creativity while also wanting to be a better mother than their own, in ‘The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard’.

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Laura Jean MacKay and Darren Mort

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2023/10/12

Short stories are like a bag of mixed lollies there’s going to be something that sparks interest. Laura Jean McKay has given us just that with ‘Gunflower’, especially as they are grouped into Birth, Life and Death. Darren Mort takes us into the challenging world of child custody when parents separate in his novel, ‘Isla’s Song’.

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Emily Spurr and Ross McMullin

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2023/10/05

Emily Spurr has researched brains, parasites, chat bots, psychological health and perimenopause and given us this humorous fictional relationship in ‘Beatrix and Fred’.The lives or three servicemen who died in World War One are cast against a backdrop of their heritage and their potential in Ross McMullin's latest historical biography, 'Life So Full of Promise'. Their loss is set against the experience that shaped them and the future to which they could have so readily contributed.

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Louisa Bennet and Hugh McGinlay

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2023/09/28

Detectives with a difference, especially as one has a particularly good sense of smell, and that’s Monty the golden retriever in Louisa Bennett’s crime novel ‘The Nosy Detectives’. Murder and Melbourne seem to go hand in hand in Hugh McGinlay’s, ‘Silks’, where a circus aerialist is throttled at the end of a silk performance rope. Can milliner and part-time detective, Catherine Klint, establish if this was an accident or a gruesome murder?

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Jessica Dettman and Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

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2023/09/21

Willa watches the dramatization of Shakespeare’s Much To Do About Nothing and wants the same stirring in her heart and loins. She finds zing in the romance e-books she publishes but not in her real life. Jessica Dettman has written a comedy of modern love in ‘Without Further Ado’.Living up to the expectation of your parents along with years of racism and sexism influence the health, the writing and the maturation to womanhood in Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel, ‘But the Girl’.

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Anna Kate Blair and Scott Bennett

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2023/09/14

Anna Kate Blair writes insightfully and amusingly while exploring the issues of social conformity, desire, sexuality and a career in art through her debut novel, ‘The Modern’.The scarred and psychologically damaged platoon of the graves retrieval unit attempt to form a New Eureka in France after World War One but the utopia they strive for is soon compromised in Scott Bennett’s debut novel, ‘Night in Passchendaele’.

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Allee Richards and Eva Collins

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2023/09/07

Allee Richards has written ‘A Light in the Dark’, a story of ambition, envy, and disappointment. The title can refer to the theatre world or hopefully the way forward from secrets and grief.The migrant experience and its impact echoes through Australia. Eva Collins has captured some of that sensibility in her poetry collection, ‘Ask No Questions’

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Rachel Matthews

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2023/08/31

Our lives, influenced as they are by our upbringing and past relationships, are both comic and even tragic. Such is the case in Rachel Matthews' novel, Never Look Desperate, as the central characters look for understanding as well as intimacy.

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Megan Rogers and Eugen Bacon

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2023/08/24

'The Heart is a Star' by Megan Rogers is a lyrical story about how we can uncover our true selves when we are forced to face the myths that make us.'Serengotti' sees not just characters but the very reader dislocated as we question the values and narratives we create. Eugen Bacon's narrative style is energetic and intriguing as her displaced characters face the challenge of survival.

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Kate Mildenhall and Silvia Kwon

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2023/08/17

‘The Hummingbird Effect’ by Kate Mildenhall. A kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread.Was Vincent van Gogh a good Samaritan or self centred artist? In ‘Vincent and Sien’ Silvia Kwon has written about a prostitute who became his model and lover during the time of his own artistic development.

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Amy Suiter Clarke and Mark Brandi

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2023/08/10

Another thought provoking crime novel by Amy Suiter Clarke. Instead of podcasts concentrating on cold case murders in ‘Girl, 11’ this time she has a cult-like church being exposed in ‘Lay Your Body Down’.A billycart race, a brother in jail and mum’s on again – off again friend all make life hard for Jimmy as he tries to make sense of the world while waiting for the Southern Aurora train to pass through his isolated country town. Mark Brandi, once again, captures the challenges of childhood in his

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Dennis Altman and Dennis Glover

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2023/08/03

‘Death in the Sauna’ by Dennis Altman is a murder mystery with an array of interesting characters who may all be suspects in this enjoyable story of politics, sexuality and secret lives. ‘Thaw’ is Dennis Glover’s account of Scott’s expedition to the Antarctic and the modern day consequences. More is trapped in the ice than we realize.

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Magdalena McGuire and Peter Hubbard

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2023/07/27

‘Born For You’ by Magdalena McGuire has written a luminous short story collection about the intensity of women’s lives and reveals the myriad of ways that women are compelled to reinvent themselves and to confront who they were, with who they become.Politics, money and power are usually behind terrorism, but what connection does this have with young refugee woman? ‘The Tears of Hope’ is the first book in a trilogy by Peter Hubbard.

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George Ivanoff and Pip Finkemeyer

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2023/07/20

‘Monster Island’, the latest children’s book by George Ivanoff, is populated by strange and unusual creatures that could well be real. Bernie and Ivy must prevent poachers from stealing these curious mythical and prehistoric animals. (Puffin)Is the purpose of life making the right choices when it comes to friends, family, relationships and especially your career. What if that career involves wanting to be an author. Pip Finkemeyer has a character trying to work it all our in ‘Sad Girl

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Gina Perry and Michelle Prak

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2023/07/13

Nine Year old Ruby and her father Mitch, had an itinerant lifestyle in Gina Perry’s debut novel ‘My Father the Whale’. Sixteen years later we see the repercussions of those lifestyle choices.In The Rush, Michelle Prak has the weather and her characters morph from friendly to violent in this tense and twisted thriller 65

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Libby Angel and Bora Chung

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2023/06/29

From boarding houses to share houses to tough accommodation on the streets, Libby Angel has written about a young women encountering like minded artists and activist in 1990’s Melbourne. ‘Where I slept’ has short colourful descriptions of these people and places.'Cursed Bunny' by Bora Chung was shortlisted for the Booker prize. Lisa speaks with her about her short story writing secrets and and what being shortlisted meant for her.

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Nina Wan and Michelle Jager

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2023/06/22

Primrose has problems. It’s not just her obsessiveness but her marriage, her journalistic career, her first love living over the road and her entitled brother-in-law coming to stay. Nina Wan writes humorously about golf perhaps not being the answer in ‘The Albatross’.Truth and reality are blurred in Michelle Jager’s, Bird Bones, as Vera’s narrative of her childhood, her marriage and affair are distorted by memory and the unreliable stories people tell.

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Lisa Moule with Danielle Binks

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2023/06/15

Lisa Moule talks with author, literary agent and creative writing teacher, Danielle Binks on our Radiothon program.

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Megan Rogers and Armando Lucas Correa

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2023/06/08

'The Heart is a Star' by Megan Rogers delves into a mother-daughter relationship against a backdrop of the untmed wilds of Tasmania's west coast.Three generations of women face the challenges of social, political and economic change in Armando Correa's novel, 'The Night Travellers'.

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Sofie Laguna and David Metzenthen

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2023/06/01

'The Glow' is a wonderfully spooky children's story (also for adults) by Sofie Laguna.'The Secret History of the Rainbow Trout Hotel' is a quirky novel about discovery where the protagonist, Andy Lightfoot, discovers new people, new ideas and new situatons. The author is David Metzenthen.

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