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4:20

Book Club - Vijay Khurana’s The Passenger Seat

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/05/20

Vijay Khurana is a writer and translator from German. His debut novel, The Passenger Seat, was shortlisted for the Novel Prize.Content warning for mentions of violence. On the verge of their final year of high school, Adam and Teddy are looking for adventure. On a whim they pack some camping gear and drive north. Adam’s got a drivers license and a truck. Teddy has a gun license and on their way out of town the boys stop at a camping goods store and buy a rifle. They’re not sure what they’ll

4:38

Book Club - Chris Flynn’s Orpheus Nine

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2025/05/13

If I’ve learned anything in my time covering Australian writing it’s to never underestimate Chris Flynn.Chris is the award winning author of Mammoth - the story of a loquacious fossil, The Glass Kingdom - a drug fueled romp through outback Australia and perhaps the strangest of all Here Be Leviathans - a collection of Monkey’s, Platypuses and Sabretooth Tigers working well outside their pay grade. Chris is back with his new novel Orpheus Nine and he’s going to hold up the mirror once again

47:48

Jane Caro's The Lyrebird

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/05/09

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Final Draft is produced and presented by Andrew Pople Want more great conversations with Australian authors? Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week. Get in touch with Andrew and Final Draft. We love to hear

3:55

Book Club - Ann Dombroski’s After the Great Storm

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2025/05/07

Ann Dombroski’s prize-winning short fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Her debut novel is After the Great Storm In the near future, Sydney is dominated by seemingly monolithic corporate structures. From prisons to transport and even medicine, the city skyline is overcome by these enormous structures that obscure the sky and channel the increasingly destructive storms that swamp the city.. Alice’s husband is locked in one of these high-rise prisons. Jailed for a crime he

51:07

Chris Flynn’s Orpheus Nine

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/05/04

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Chris is the award winning author of Mammoth - the story of a loquacious fossil, The Glass Kingdom - a drug fueled romp through outback Australia and perhaps the strangest of all Here Be Leviathans - a collection of Monkey’s, Platypuses

39:51

Caro Llewelyn’s Love Unedited

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/04/14

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Caro Llewellyn is the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted memoir Diving into Glass, and has worked with writers in publishing and as a Festival Director and human rights advocate. Her new novel is Love Unedited As an editor, Molly is

4:01

Book Club - Naima Brown’s Mother Tongue

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2025/04/10

Naima Brown’s essays have appeared in Vogue, the Guardian, and more. She wrote, along with Melissa Doyle, the non-fiction book How to Age Against the Machine and is the author of The Shot. Mother Tongue is her second novel. Ever since the birth of her daughter Jenny, Brynn’s life has been ruled by The Schedule; a clockwork routine that means Jenny will love her and Brynn will be the mother she know she can be. Her husband Eric works hard for the family and Brynn will too. Her best friend Lisa

50:44

Rachael Johns The Bad Bridesmaid

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/04/07

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Rachael Johns was an English teacher before making her dreams of becoming a novelist come true. Her book The Patterson Girls won the ABIA Award in 2016 for General Fiction and she has also won the prestigious Romance Writers of Australia

3:55

Book Club - Karina May’s That Island Feeling

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2025/04/04

The days are about to get shorter and the cold is already creeping in. So for today’s book club I’m taking us back to warmer times with Karina May’s That Island Feeling.Karina is the author of Duck a l’Orange for Breakfast (April 2023), which was longlisted in the Indie Book Awards for Best Debut Fiction, and Never Ever Forever. Karina, alongside her friend and author Clare Fletcher, is the founder and co-host of the successful That Rom Com Pod. Karina’s new novel That Island Feeling takes us to

48:55

Eileen Chong's We Speak of Flowers

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/03/31

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Eileen Chong is an award winning poet. You’ve met her on Final Draft with her last collection A Thousand Crimson Blooms and today she’s joining us with her new collection We Speak of Flowers. We Speak of Flowers comprises 101

3:46

Book Club - Andrea Goldsmith’s The Buried Life

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2025/03/23

Andrea Goldsmith is the award winning author of novels including the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted The Prosperous Thief and the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature, The Memory Trap.Her new novel is The Buried Life. Adrian’s colleagues affectionately call him Doctor Death. As a renowned scholar of death in the modern age he has surprisingly little insight into the impacts death has wrought in his own life. Kezi is a young artist torn between the freedom of her life and the tug of the

30:05

Steve MinOn’s First Name Second Name

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/03/18

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Steve MinOn is the winner of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer 2023. First Name Second Name is his first novel Stephen Bolin lies in a coma in a Brisbane hospital. In the hours before his death Stephen awakens long

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Book Club - Diana Reid’s Signs of Damage

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2025/03/11

Diana Reid is the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist in 2022. Her debut, Love & Virtue, won the ABIA Book of the Year Award, and the ABA Booksellers’ Choice Fiction Book of the Year Award.Diana’s new novel is Signs of Damage. How could everything have gone so wrong? In the summer of 2008 the Kelly family are enjoying a holiday in the south of France. Bruce, Vanessa, their daughters Skye and Anika and Anika’s best friend Cass.The holiday seems something of an idyll until Cass goes

40:52

Zane Lovitt’s The Body Next Door

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2025/03/08

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Zane Lovitt is the award winning author of The Midnight Promise and Black Teeth Jamie’s back on Carnation Way. It was a mostly conscious decision, although the dissolution of his marriage wasn’t meant to be part of the move. It’s not so bad

4:03

Book Club - Steve MinOn’s First Name Second Name

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2025/03/06

Steve MinOn is the winner of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer 2023.Stephen Bolin lies in a coma in a Brisbane hospital. In the hours before his death Stephen awakens long enough to write a cryptic message to his sisters. They are to carry his body north to the town of their birth. Stephen’s sisters ignore this bizarre request and so some time later Stephen awakens in a mortuary, stiff with rigor mortis. His now dead brain animated by a single desire, to complete the trip north

33:54

Vanessa McCausland's The Last Illusion of Paige White

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/03/03

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Vanessa McCausland is author of DREAMING IN FRENCH and THE BEAUTIFUL WORDS. Paige White's beautiful life is documented closely for her thousands of followers: lakeside picnics with her daughter, sunny afternoons in the family van, and

39:44

Catherine Jinks’ Panic

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2025/02/28

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Catherine Jinks is the award winning author of more than forty books. You’ve met her on Final Draft when we discussed her novel The Attack… Catherine’s new novel is Panic. Bronte’s gone viral in the worst possible way. After being doxed by

4:24

Book Club - Eileen Chong's We Speak of Flowers

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/02/26

Eileen Chong is an award winning poet. You’ve met her on Final Draft with her last collection A Thousand Crimson Blooms and today she’s joining us with her new collection We Speak of Flowers.We Speak of Flowers comprises 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, attempting to make sense of grief in the face of great pain. Loved this review? You can get more books, writing and literary culture every week on the Final Draft Great Conversations podcast. Hear interviews with authors

3:39

Book Club - Catherine Jinks’ Panic

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/02/24

Catherine Jinks is the award winning author of more than forty books. Her new novel is Panic.Katoomba’s a small community. There’s not a lot of places to hide when people know your name and Bronte’s gone viral in the worst possible way. Getting social media drunk and angry is never a good idea and now Bronte’s been doxed by her YouTube famous ex and she needs to get out of town, fast. Fortunately the gig economy is full of jobs for people desperate enough to take them… Caring for an elderly woman

32:57

Sean Wilson’s You Must Remember This

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/02/20

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.These are the stories that make us who we are. Sean Wilson is a writer, playwright and communications professional. Sean is the author of Gemini Falls. He has been shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights Award by Sydney Theatre Company. Sean joins us today with his new novel You

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