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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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Nell Pierce and Sam Wallman

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2022/07/14

How well can we remember events from our past? Matilda agonises over things said and unsaid, looking for the truth in ‘A Place Near Eden’. The Australian/Vogel Literary award winner for 2022 by Nell Pierce.'Our Members Be Unlimited' is Sam Wallman's account of the rise and significance of unionism. As a graphic artist, the message is conveyed pictorially which has as much impact as the words making this a unique insight into the evolution of the worker's movement.

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Claire Coleman Matthew Ryan Davies

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2022/06/30

Claire Coleman explores the bubbles of thinking and attitudes within society and the dangers of living within gated expectations in her latest novel, "Enclave".Their father's car accident brings adult siblings home and they question what they know about their father and what they know about each other and themselves in Matthew Ryan Davies, "Things we Bury".

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Maree Roberts and Brendan Colley

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2022/06/23

What happened inside the Russian Revolution and what were its effects on Melbourne in the 1950's? Maree Roberts has given us Olga and a light hearted, well researched look in 'The Impossible History of Trotsky's Sister'.Brenda Colley takes us on a phantom train journey in 'The Signal Line'. A mystery train appears in Hobart on rail lines that no longer exist.

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Justine Sless

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2022/06/16

The history and the how of doing standup comedy along with the difficulty it has been for women, are written about by Justine Sless as she takes us around a department store and on to the stage in 'Mistress of Mirth’s Comedy tour'.

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Lucy Christopher and Jared Thomas

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2022/06/09

A different court case, ten years apart and both involving kidnapping, but who was the perpetrator and who was the victim in ‘Release’, Lucy Christopher’s psychological drama. Jared Thomas challenges stereotypes in his coming of age novel, ‘My Spare Heart’, whose antagonist, Phoebe, comes to terms with her indigenous heritage.

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Gabrielle Wang and Amra Pajalic

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2022/06/02

Zadie Ma is 11 years old with the super power of having her stories come alive. Will this help her to get a dog and be allowed to keep it? Gabrielle Wang is Australia’s Children’s Laureate and ‘Zadie Ma and the Dog who Chased the Moon’ is her latest book.Establishing an identity and fathoming the challenges of different cultures as a young girl lie at the heart of ‘The Cuckoo’s Song’ by Amra Pajalic.

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Jon Faine and Edwina Preston

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2022/05/26

‘Apollo and Thelma’: he was constantly seeking fame as the world’s strongest man and his sister owned a pub in remote Northern Territory. Jon Faine writes about his links to them through his own legal and media background and what it taught him about Australia’s colonial history. In ‘Bad Art Mother’, Edwina Preston profiles the life of a troubled poet and the relationship she has when her art and maternal responsibilities collide. While the account is fictional, the premise is based on an

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Steve Told, Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta

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2022/05/19

Steve Tolz explores a fictional afterlife constrained by similar concerns to that which we would find on earth in his comic and confronting novel, ‘Here Goes Nothing’. ‘The View Was Exhausting’ is an inside look at how the rich and famous may live and perhaps an insightful look at the control the publicity plays in their lives, co-written by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta.

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Ashley Goldberg and Scott Pearce

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2022/05/12

Hidden within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community lies dark secrets that have a profound influence on the lives of those whose world is determined by the religious beliefs that give them a sense of belonging in Ashley Goldberg’s novel, ‘Abomination’. Scott Pearce has written about two very different families in The Rider on the Bridge, a boy finds his in a share house of drug addicts in Fazed Yellow by the Winter a loving supportive family has to make a decision about leaving its community.

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Tosh Greenslade and Cathy Koning

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2022/05/05

Tosh Greenslade applies his satirical eye in 'The Scomo Diaries' revealing that elections are more a marketing campaign than true politics. Cathy Koning writes about her experience with cancer in ‘Life Blood’ and also talks about how she became a self publisher of this and other books.

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Fiona Wood and Hilde Hinton

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2022/04/28

Grade 6 is a year of growth and change, with puberty happening to climate awareness. Fiona Wood has also included blending families and humour in ‘How To Spell Catastrophe’.In Hilde Hinton’s, ‘A Solitary Walk on the Moon’, we find behind ordinary people and events, lies the majesty and the pathos of life. Evelyn creates a family of misfits who each have a weakness but will that family hold together?

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Jane Caro and Toni Jordan

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2022/04/21

In ‘The Mother’ Jane Caro has written a story about the difficult and sensitive area of coercive control, how a relationship can become toxic and what a mother will do to protect the family she loves..Toni Jordan highlights the humour and pathos of a man struggling to cope with his altered circumstances after going bankrupt and the challenges of facing a contemporary world of digital influencers and new age jargon in ‘Dinner with the Schnabels’.

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Eliza Reilly and Sisters-in-Crime

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2022/04/14

‘Sheilas: Badass women of Australian History’ is researched and written by Eliza Reilly, with just as much determination and innovation as the woman had in their defying the rules and norms of their times.Carmel Shute relates the history of ‘Sisters-in-Crime’ and what is happening to celebrate its 30th year.

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Ed Coper and Josh Kemp

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2022/04/07

‘Facts and Other Lies’ gives background information about why fake news spreads and how politicians, especially right wing conservatives have exploited it so successfully. Ed Coper uses extensive research but writes cleverly with specific examples and humour and even explains how individuals can defuse disinformation. Josh Kemp distorts perceptions with a drug addled protagonist and a ten year old girl he is trying to rescue whose perspective is plagued by nightmares as they search the outback for

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Aoife Clifford and Sean Rabin

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2022/03/31

In ‘When We Fall’ a mother has moved back to the small town she grew up in. Her daughter, Alex, wants to know who her father is, but finds that she is involved in a murder mystery instead, and there is a possibility that she could be murdered too! Sean Rabin takes us into the not too distant future where radical environmentalism is required to save the planet in, ‘The Good Captain’

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Jane Cockram and Rhett Davis

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2022/03/24

Twenty years after a younger, impulsive sister returns from a summer overseas, she dies. She has left her reliable older sister instructions of where to scatter her ashes with letters to read of explanation. There are hidden secrets and undisclosed truths that connect very different families in Jane Cockram’s ‘The Way From Here’. The dislocation the characters feel in Rhett Davis’ novel, ‘Hovering’, can be extrapolated into the dispossession one would feel on losing everything familiar to them. The

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Nicole Alexander and Robert Lukins

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2022/03/17

The Dalhunty family have only their prestigious name after generations of pastoral wealth. Their downturn is also reflected in the demise of the riverboat trade on the Darling. ‘The Last Station’ is written with detailed depictions or rural life, action and humour by Nicole Alexander.We inherit property but we can also inherit the past. Robert Lukins grapples with these notions in ‘Loveland’ as May journeys to claim the property left to her by her grandmother and we discover just how similar their

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Ennis Cehic and Dominque Wilson

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2022/03/10

Insight and satire abound in short stories about The advertising industry in ’Sadvertising’ by Ennis Cehic.Dominique Wilson traverses one hundred years of Australian history in her novel, ‘Orphan Rock’, giving us a glimpse at the attitudes and mores that have changed and those things, like pandemics, that have stayed the same.

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Keren Heenan and Mandy Beaumont

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2022/03/03

Australia is diverse, Keren Heenen is one of the sixteen writers who surprise you, as they take you to places you know, or think you know, in ‘The Furphy Anthology’, selected stories from the Furphy Literary Award in 2021. Far from being about an isolated case of abuse, Mandy Beaumont’s, ‘The Furies’, speaks to the endemic victimization of women in society and one doesn’t have to look too far beyond the fictional page to find parallels within ‘respectable’ institutions like our own parliament.

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Katherine Collette and Megan Albany

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2022/02/24

Most people have obsessions, Katherine Collette has written about those who take on speech making in ‘The Competition’. This delightful read has a mixture of memorable characters who find happiness despite themselves.Megan Albany’s account of someone dying of cancer balances both the tragic and comic in her novel,' The Last List of Vivian Walker', where the mundane and ordinary in characters’ lives are celebrated.

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