Fully Lit

What makes a novel uniquely Australian? How do our stories stack up on the world stage? Writer, critic and former diplomat Nick Jose joins Lynda Ng—Oz Lit scholar and literary critic—for a deep dive into the Australian novel and its shifting place in global literature. Through powerful readings from literary giants like Patrick White, Peter Carey, Alexis Wright, and Christina Stead, we ask: How has fiction shaped the idea of ‘Australia'? How has that idea changed from the nineteenth to the twentieth