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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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Garry Disher

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2022/12/01

In "Day's End", Garry Disher, once again, develops the case load of Paul Hirschhausen in the rural South Australian town of Tiverton where isolation masks a myriad of social ills; a disappearance, a body in a suitcase, drugs, cybercrime, nationalism and the public reation to Covid.

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The Furphy Anthology 2022

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2022/11/24

This is the third year that this fine collection of short stories has been handsomely published. Three of the authors Cate Kennedy, Lisa Moule and Scott Limbrick talk about their entries in ‘The Furphy Anthology 2022’

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Allen C. Jones and Katherine Hore

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2022/11/17

We are floating along in the universe between the horizon and the stars after an epic inundation in Allen C. Jones' novel, 'Her Death Was Also Water'.'The Stranger' is what every closed patriarchal community needs and Katherine Hore has written a whip-cracking, smart feminist Western.

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Mariam El Houli and Inga Simpson

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2022/11/10

When a feisty Palestinian girl befriends a Zionist the consequences are dire in The Olive Tree by Miariam El Houli.(Dean Publishing)The centrality of cricket to the well being of not just individuals but society in general is at the heart of Inga Simpson's novel, 'Willowman'. (Hachette)

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Alex Miller and Heather Rose

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2022/11/03

Alex Miller explores those inner voices that sustain us in his latest novel, 'A Brief Affair' where Fran learns of the person who previously occupied her office when it was an asylum cell. A lost notebook speaks of a life nearly lost but brought to life again.‘Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here’ is deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity, and healing, dealing with courage and joy from Heather Rose, the award-winning author of ‘Bruny' and 'The Museum of Modern

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Sean Wilson and Nina Kenwood

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2022/10/27

Sean Wilson’s novel, ‘Gemini Falls’, is set in the Great Depression era of the 1930’s where a murder has been committed. Thirteen year old Morris and his friends investigate going behind the scenes where his detective father cannot go, discovering parts of the family history as well as who perpetrated the crime. Brooke has many anxieties about her own abilities and over thinks other people‘s actions but good friends and embarrassing circumstances lead to much humour in ‘Unnecessary Drama’ written by

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Phillip Salom and Peggy Frew

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2022/10/20

Philip Salom challenges us to re-evaluate notions of identity in an age where algorithms predominate in his latest work, ‘Sweeney and the Bicycles’.Three sisters are aware of their frailties, addictions and bossiness, but will they reconnect if they could control or even value these characteristics in each other, in Peggy Frew’s ‘Wildflowers’.

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Craig Silvey and Petronella McGovern

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2022/10/13

Craig Silvey takes us on a delightful journey of identity and friendship as Annie and her stray dog take on the world in 'Runt'. Petronella McGovern has linked many issues such as teenage activism, toxic masculinity, female ambition and whales into ‘The Liars’, part crime novel part history book but all round very good read.

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Sophie Cunningham and Angela Meyer

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2022/10/06

A novelist is thinking about environmental damage, but in researching and writing about Leonard and Virginia Woolf, she sees the parallels between their lives with wars, pandemics and politics getting more right wing and what is happening now. ‘This Devastating Fever’ is the book the novelist wants to write, Sophie Cunningham did. When Josh disappears, Mila and Kyle have their own reasons for trying to find him but the search leads to some very unusual discoveries in Angela Meyer’s,

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Else Fitzgerald and Jock Serong

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2022/09/29

Else Fitzgerald has written over 20 connected short stories through the grief of drought, fire and floods and into the uncertain future where humans have become genetically adapted to cope, but what about their own desires and hopes in ‘Everything Feels Like the End of the World’. ‘The Settlement’ is Jock Serong’s fictional account of true historical events when George Augustus Robinson attempted to resettle Tasmanian aborigines on a remote island. It is testament to colonial practices that

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Vikki Petraitis and Thuy On

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2022/09/22

Sexual assault can happen anywhere, but in a small town how hard is it to prove and to get justice. Vikki Petraitis won the Allen and Unwin Crime fiction Prize with her book ‘The Unbelieved’. ‘Decadence’ demonstrates Thuy On’s delight in playing with language, words and even grammar in poems that are both playful and, at times, evocative.

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Geraldine Brooks and Miles Allinson

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2022/09/15

Geraldine Brooks provides a sweeping account of America’s past by following the horse, Lexington, in a book simply titled, ‘Horse’. What is revealed are links to slavery, the art world and how history is preserved today but there are also echoes of the past in the current day attitudes of its citizens.Three generations are looking for inspiration and guidance to find out how to love and live. From the Indian ashram in the 70’s to closed societies of the future, the outcomes for these three

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Eliza Henry-Jones and Paul Daley

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2022/09/08

The past of witches and the present of beached whales, male violence and grief affect all those on a Scottish island in Eliza Henry-Jones, ‘Salt and Skin’.Paul Daley examines the question of indigenous dispossession in ‘Jesustown’ looking closely at the changing European attitudes over several generations and the need to alter the discourse.

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Jess Ho and Kirsty Manning

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2022/09/01

Food and culture come together in unexpected ways in Jess Ho’s memoir, ‘Raised By Wolves’. Parisian society, pre WW2 with sumptuous parties, couture fashion, bohemian wine bars, plenty of secrets and a murder. ‘The Paris Mystery’ is the start of a new crime series by Kirsty Manning and an introduction to Charlie James, foreign correspondent for The Times.

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John Kinsella and Neela Janakiramanan

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2022/08/25

John Kinsella has begun a retrospective of his collected poems. Volume 1, ‘The Ascension of Sheep’ covers the period from 1980 to 2005 and details his engagement with landscape, fauna and Australian identity.Is medicine a caring profession or a cut throat culture? Neela Janakiramanan has a woman, facing many obstacles, while training to become a surgeon in ‘The Registrar’.

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Christine Balint and J.P. Pomare

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2022/08/18

Christine Balint won the 2021 Viva La Novella Prize with ‘Water Music’, about the possible life choices for a female violinist in eighteenth century Venice. J. P. Pomare provides us with a fatal car accident, a jaded private investigator and several spurned women who all have a grudge against the deceased who was one of the last people to have contact with two missing girls in ‘The Wrong Woman’. The outcome is not what you’d expect as all the multiple lines of inquiry converge.

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Pirooz Jafari and Jay Carmichael

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2022/08/11

Pirooz Jafari has written an interwoven saga spanning Australia, Iran and Sweden in ‘Forty Nights’. It explores love, loss, migration and dispossession across centuries.Jay Carmichael details the journey of a young homosexual man as he comes to terms with his identity and relationships. Set in the 1950’s, the novella, ‘Marlo’, details some of the impositions and assumptions of a society that hadn’t yet addressed gender diversity.

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Ellie O'Neill and James McKenzie Watson

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2022/08/04

Set in Ireland ‘Family Matters’ has the importance of family, sisterhood and motherhood at its heart and Ellie O’Neill has written with humour about the age old desire for matchmaking .‘Denizen’ explores the psychological landscape of truth as Parker confronts his childhood in a remote NSW town when he returns to go camping with former school friends. Only when an accident occurs does the reality of his past and the challenges of the present become all too real and troubling.

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Scott McCulloch and Matthew Spencer

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2022/07/28

Scott McCulloch's 'Basin' is a dystopian novel a character known as Figure is revived after a suicide attempt and has to taransverse a bleak landscape and his own sense of identity.Matthew Spencer's 'Black River' is a murder mystery thriller where the potential psychyopathy of a possible serial killer is explored before he kills again. The interplay between Adam Bowman, a struggling journalist, and the police lead to revealing insights about the ethics of such investigations.

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Adriane Howell and Anna Mandoki

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2022/07/21

Like a hydra with nine heads, our own demons can get the better of us and such is the case in the novel ‘Hydra’ by Adriane Howell where Anja, the narrator, has to face the character flaws that have brought about her undoing. Anna Mandoki has written about a slightly futuristic Melbourne, of human connection in an increasingly fragmented world and where three very different women’s lives become entwined in ‘Random acts of Unkindness’.

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