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The Joys of Binge Reading

Jenny Wheeler

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Kirsty Manning – WWII Dual Time Saga

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2021/06/29

Kirsty Manning’s lush dual timeline stories, dealing with family secrets and female friendships in international settings, have drawn favorable comparison with blockbuster authors like Penny Vincenzi. Her latest book, The French Gift, is a tale of loyalty and betrayal in World War II Germany and Paris today. It is based on the true story of an iconic French Resistance fighter and won’t disappoint. We've got three E-book copies of The French Gift to give away in our All New Aussies

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29:12

Polly Phillips – Friends to Frenemies

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2021/06/22

Polly Phillips’ debut thriller, My Best Friend's Murder, deals with frenemies Bec and Izzy, who have been best friends forever. But there is a darker side to their friendship, and Bec is about to reach breaking point. Hi there, I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler, and in Binge Reading today Polly talks about the uncomfortable reality of intimate friendships that turn toxic, and the challenges of plotting a suspenseful domestic thriller. And we're giving away three e-books of My Best Friend's Murder

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Jenny Ashcroft – From Blitz to Outback

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2021/06/14

Jenny Ashcroft’s historical fiction reflects her many years living and working abroad. She does captivating romances that have been compared to the big names of popular fiction, people like Lucinda Riley and Kate Furnivall. Stories of family secrets and love doomed by misunderstandings of war set in Bombay, Singapore, Australia, and Egypt. Hi there, I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler, and in Binge Reading today Jenny Ashcroft talks about her latest book, Under the Golden Sun, set against the epic

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41:08

Monica McInerney – Warm Family Dramas

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2021/06/07

Monica McInerney’s best-selling and award-winning books explore the resilience and fragility of family bonds, whether in a single-mother family as in her latest book, The Godmothers, or in earlier ones like the hugely popular The Trip of a Lifetime. This one introduced, as one critic put it, “a huge-hearted and colorful family you’ll want to call your own”. Australian born and Dublin based when we’re not in pandemic, Monica tops reader popularity polls for warm family stories packed with

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Chanel Cleeton – Gilded Age Celebrity

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2021/06/01

Chanel Cleeton’s latest Cuban historical, The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba, covers the remarkable real-life story of Evangelina, a young Cuban noble woman who became an “overnight celebrity” in a bitter New York circulation war that birthed the world of newspaper tabloid journalism we see today. Hi there, I'm your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Chanel talks about the birth of yellow journalism and the role the Cuban War of Independence in the 1890s played in its creation. It's a colorful story,

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32:59

Karen White – Hope In Darkness

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2021/05/24

Karen White is best known as the top selling author of so-called “Grit Lit” – the mysteries with a paranormal twist set in the South, like her Tradd Street series set in Charleston, South Carolina, or family sagas in Georgia. Her latest book, in contrast, The Last Night in London, is, as the title suggests, a departure – the first book she has set outside of the South. Hi there, I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler, and in Binge Reading today Karen talks about why she wants the full gamut of human

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35:55

Nicola Moriarty – Family Secrets

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2021/05/17

Nicola Moriarty's latest book You Need To Know centers on a family of three brothers, all writers, caught up in a traumatic Christmas Eve road smash. It's Nicola’s way, perhaps of having a bit of a laugh at herself because she's from a well-known Australian writing family and has two sisters, Liane and Jackie who are also best-selling authors. Hi there. I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler. And in Binge Reading today, Nicola talks about learning to accept the rough with the smooth, finding her niche

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37:09

Sarah Penner – Serial Poisoner

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2021/05/11

Sarah Penner’s debut novel The Lost Apothecary shot to the top of the New York Times best seller lists in its first week, and overnight became one of the most anticipated books of 2021, with everyone from CNN to Oprah giving it favorable mentions. Her lead character, Nella, is a skilled healer who uses poison for dark purposes. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in Binge Reading today Sarah talks about writing a book that stands out from all the others, how Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic

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31:53

Madeline Martin – The Power of Story

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2021/05/03

Madeline Martin is a USA Today bestselling author who writes historical fiction and historical romance, usually set anywhere between the 14th century and the Regency period. Her romance is full of adventurous twists and turns, empowered heroines and men who are strong enough to love them. But with her latest book, The Last Bookshop in London, she's taken a new path into World War II Europe. Hi there, I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler and in today's Binge Reading episode Madeline talks about the

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Katherine Hall Page – Faith Fairchild Mysteries

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2021/04/26

Agatha Award winning mystery author Katherine Hall Page celebrates a special anniversary with the 25th book in her Agatha Award winning Faith Fairchild Mysteries Series, The Body in the Wake. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in today’s Binge Reading episode Katherine talks about how a decision to sit down and write a mystery novel while on holiday in France years ago led to a remarkable second career, how the pandemic is affecting her stories, and about the cookbook that won an Agatha

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29:59

Kayte Nunn – Desire Revenge & Courage

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2021/04/18

Kayte Nunn is an international bestselling author of historical fiction whose latest book, The Last Reunion, tells the story of five women buddies who served in the Australian Auxiliary Service in the Second World War in Burma. They meet up at a New Year’s Eve party after decades apart, and a thrilling tale of desire, revenge and courage unfolds. This unit was a ‘forgotten’ women’s unit, attached to the Fourteenth Army, and serving closer to the front than any other women’s unit in the Second

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35:01

Michele Scott – Wine Lover Mysteries

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2021/04/12

Over a writing career spanning more than 30 mysteries and thrillers, Michele Scott has seen both the highs and lows of publishing. She enjoyed “instant success” with her first thriller, Daddy’s Home, after weathering years of rejection letters, and she’s now riding high again with her Wine Lover’s Mystery series, book nine, A Killer Margarita, recently published, set for a future on Netflix. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in today’s Binge Reading episode Michele talks about

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40:09

J. T. Ellison – Gothic Spine Chiller

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2021/04/05

J T Ellison has sold millions of psychological thrillers all round the world in nearly 30 countries. Her latest book, Her Dark Lies, is a Gothic spine chiller featuring international billionaires and a mysterious first wife. Does that sound familiar? It should do because it’s a re-telling of Daphne du Maurier’s classic page-turner, Rebecca. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in Binge Reading today J.T. talks about writing Her Dark Lies, about the Nashville thriller series with homicide

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37:24

Jill Eileen Smith – Miriam’s Story

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2021/03/29

Jill Eileen Smith has made a career out of re-telling the lives of Old Testament women for a contemporary audience, and fifteen or more books later she’s still going strong, a best selling and award winning author with an appreciative following. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and to mark this coming Easter weekend we’re doing something a little different. We talk to Jill about searching the biblical and other secular records to make the women, who were originally little more than shadows

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45:09

Olivia Hayfield – Elizabeth I – Media Mogul

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2021/03/22

Olivia Hayfield had a crazy idea in the shower and then she turned it into a blockbuster book. And then she wrote a sequel. Why not, she said, re-tell the story of Henry VIII as a 20th century media mogul? The end result was first, Wife After Wife, the tale of Harry Rose, a Richard Branson style magnate who’s a lot more likeable than Henry VIII but does manage to notch up multiple wives. One reviewer described it as “rich people behaving badly”, and now there’s the sequel. Hi there, I’m your

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40:26

Alexandra Joel – Fleet St to Palace

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2021/03/14

Alexandra Joel’s latest book The Royal Correspondent is one for fans of The Crown TV series – revisiting as it does swinging London in the 60s, seen through the eyes of a young Australian journalist, coming from the wrong side of the tracks, promoted to covering the British royal family. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in today’s Binge Reading episode Alexandra talks about the scandalous family story – one from her own family – that got her started in fiction, her father’s rags to

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45:47

Allison Pataki – World-Changing Women

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2021/03/07

Allison Pataki has made it her specialty to discover the relatively unknown women of history whose lives changed the course of empires, whose names have largely been forgotten. Women like Désirée Clary, the first love of Napoleon’s life. She might have ended up as Empress if he hadn’t met Josephine, but she went on to found a famous royal house which still exists today. In The Queen’s Fortune, Allison’s latest book, she tells us the story of this fascinating historical figure. Hi there,

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43:26

Lauren Willig – Love, Lies & Rebellion

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2021/02/28

A Women's History Month Special: Lauren Willig’s latest book, A Summer Country, is an epic family saga simmering with secrets, set in 19th century Barbados. It’s quite a departure from her World War I and II historical fiction and the Napoleonic era “Pink Carnation” mysteries that are so popular. But Lauren – author of more than 30 award-winning bestselling books – says being adaptable is a key if you want to have a long-standing career as an author. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and

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44:02

Rachael Treasure – Inspired By Nature

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2021/02/22

Rachael Treasure is one of Australia's most popular authors of women's fiction, credited with sparking a whole new sub-genre of rural fiction with her groundbreaking romance, Jillaroo, a book that opened the flood gates for dozens more authors and readers of rural romance and country fiction to follow. In her latest book, White Horses, nearly 20 years later, Rachael continues to smash conventions, blending her vision for a vital and thriving Australian agricultural sector with a young woman's

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37:32

Roselle Lim – Fabulist Rom Coms

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2021/02/15

Roselle Lim’s first fabulist-romcom, called Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune, was picked up for TV and it looks like the second, just out, Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop, could well find its way to the small screen as well. That’s wonderful success for a writer early in her career, but Roselle put in a dedicated apprenticeship to achieve her “overnight success”. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in today’s Binge Reading podcast Roselle talks about what it took to strike

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