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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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Katherine Brabon and Charlie Donlea

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2021/08/19

Japanese life is steeped in traditions, but four interconnected characters tell of how a different life can be lived in ‘The Shut Ins’ by Katherine Brabon. Charlie Donlea uses the Twin Towers collapse as the source of a cold case that must be solved in ‘Twenty Years Later’ but there is still intrigue in the present day. The FBI spy on the investigative journalist whose past could be embarrassing if revealed, but she may yet uncover the truth behind the gruesome murder at the centre of that cold

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Briohny Doyle and Tania Chandler

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2021/08/12

Things are falling apart: the lake is drying up, the town is changing and who you are in a marriage and a broader family is under scrutiny, in ‘Echolalia’ by Briohny Doyle.Tania Chandler exposes the fractures in social behaviour that lead her protagonist, Sidney, to question her own mental stability. The novel, ‘All That I Remember About Dean Cola’ creates a complex scenario where memory and emotional development intermingle and stereotypes about such illnesses are challenged.

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Michelle Wright and Simon Rowell

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2021/08/05

Murder can be opportunistic or professional planned. Simon Rowell has Detective Sergeant Zoe Mayer investigating against time in 'The Long Game'. In Michelle Wright’s, ‘Small Acts of Defiance’, little gestures come to mean a great deal and such is the case for Australian girl Lucie living in occupied France during world War Two.

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Brendan Murray and R. W. R. McDonald

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2021/07/29

Brendan Murray takes us back to school highlighting the challenges and rewards in his book, “The School”, where he covers the academic yearly cycle of tests, bullying and the kindness of students.Tippy and her flamboyant uncles help to solve murders in a Nancy Drew way, but with a lot more inappropriate humour and alcohol in ‘Nancy Business’, a cosy queer crime novel by R.W.R. MDonald.

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Amy Suiter Clarke and Laura Elizabeth Woollett

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2021/07/22

Elle has a popular true-crime podcast, her investigation into a cold case serial killer has more murders happening in this thriller, ‘Girl, 11’ by Amy Suiter Clarke.‘The Newcomer’ plays on the murder mystery genre. Laura Elizabeth Woollett gives voice and agency to the victim who is a damaged individual but, none the less, deserving of the reader’s sympathy.

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Amy Rudder and Anna Ciddor

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2021/07/15

'By chance the Future' by Amy Rudder blends the philosophy of why we travel, with politics and comedy with the big question what did we learn on the way? There’s no better way to appreciate how the ancient Roman’s lived than to read Anna Ciddor’s adventure of ‘The Boy Who Stepped Through Time’ where Perry finds himself living an authentic Roman lifestyle.

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Melissa Manning and Jacqueline Bublitz

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2021/07/01

Melissa Manning has created resilient characters who live in the small communities of southern Tasmania, in the linked stories of ‘Smokehouse’.Jacqueline Bublitz merges the lives of Alice and Ruby in her novel, “Before You Knew My Name” and highlights the shared experience of women as Ruby tries to account for and solve Alice’s murder. Intriguingly, the narrator is Alice.

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Madeleine Ryan and Michael Ahmad

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2021/06/24

Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s protagonist, Bani Adam, is encouraged to marry but must negotiate the customs and traditions inherent within his Lebanese Alawite community while simultaneously establishing where he stands in current day Australia as a young Muslim man. ‘The Other Half of You’ continues the saga that began in ‘The Lebs’. A Room called Earth takes place in just 24 hours but Madeleine Ryan has given us a universe of thoughts of how men and women live with each other and themselves. Is it

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Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist

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2021/06/17

Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist wrote about fictional walkers, learning about themselves and others on the Camino, in 'Two Steps Forward'. Another book, with another walk and more humour. 'Two Steps Onward' has fictional friends and family walking the Way of St Francis of Assisi. One friend has health difficulties and a lie she only wants to share with the Pope.

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Kirsty Manning and Alice Pung

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2021/06/10

‘The French Gift’ could be the unpublished manuscript of a crime novel or the bond of friendship between two unlikely women, one a French Resistance fighter and the other, a murderer. Historical fiction at its best by Kirsty Manning.Alice Pung highlights the travails of a pregnant teenager looking for agency and independence in her life against the backdrop of a cultural divide, a controlling parent and her own divided sense of self in her latest novel, ‘One Hundred Days’.

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Amanda Hampson and Kelly Rimmer

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2021/06/03

In their youth, lovebirds Elizabeth and Ray had to fight to be together. Conscription altered their happiness and Lizzy now has to fight her own stubbornness on a bizarre road trip to reunite her family in Amanda Hampson’s 'Lovebirds'.Hope lies in the resourcefulness and resilience of children in Kelly Rimmer’s novel, 'The Warsaw Orphan', set against the backdrop of war torn Warsaw.

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L. P. McMahon and Christopher Hawkes

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2021/05/27

Could a successful female Melbourne doctor be as vulnerable as an orphaned girl from remote Pakistan? L. P. McMahon takes us on a remarkable read through the circumstances of life and surgery in 'As Swallows Fly'.We can often drive ourselves to the edge in our search for identity and meaning. Both Ethan and Harry, half-brothers, find themselves on the brink of emotional, moral and physical crisis in Christopher Hawke’s novel, “The Miscreants’.

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John Kinsella and Ella Baxter

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2021/05/20

John Kinsella's evocation of the Australian landscape and the voices of the ordinary people speaks eloquently of the emotions, concerns and feelings with which we can all identify in his anthology of short stories, "Pushing Back".From the formalities of a funeral home to the inside working of a kink club, death, sex and make-up are all parts of "New Animal" by Ella Baxter.

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Belinda Lyons-Lee and Emma Batchelor

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2021/05/13

Belinda Lyons-Lee touches on the macabre history of Madame Tussaud, the lifelike images of wax and how they excited the likes of the necromancer, Philidor, and the His Grace William Cavendish in her gothic tale, 'Tussaud'.'Now That I See You' is a story of complicated love when a partner becomes transgender. Emma Batchelor tells this through letters and journal entries over an eighteen month period.

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Emily Maguire and Sandi Scaunich

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2021/05/06

Emily Maguire has written about ‘Love Objects’. Things that are personal becoming public and the deep hurt associated with it especially if those things are sex and hoarding. One person’s trash is another’s treasure in Sandi Scaunch’s novel, 'Chasing the McCubbin', where the world of garage sales provides hope and opportunity for those seeking direction.

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Robin Gregory and Stuart Everly-Wilson

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2021/04/29

Private Investigators have to use discretion, spy craft, endless patience and self preservation to get results. Sandi Kent needs all of these to crack cases of sexual slavery in the suburbs of Melbourne in Robin Gregory’s ‘Traffic’.Disability shouldn’t be a hindrance. Indeed, it often hides a remarkable intelligence as Stuart Everly-Wilson shows in his debut novel, ‘Low Expectations'.

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Lyn Yeowart and Ben Sanders

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2021/04/22

Can one person be a model citizen as well as a feared monster? After 20 years a small rural community hasn’t solved the disappearance of a young girl. ‘The Silent Listener’ by Lyn Yeowart is so much more than just a crime novel. In ‘The Devils You Know’, Ben Sanders takes us into the violent world of drug running cartels and confronts us with the notion of violence as a necessity on the personal and political front.

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Emily Spurr and Kathryn Barker

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2021/04/15

Both 10 year old Rae and next door neighbour Lettie have secrets and houses but not homes. Emily Spurr has written about isolation, Splinter the dog and love in ‘A Million Things’.Shakespeare is timeless and in Kathryn Barker’s, ‘Waking Romeo’, we find that time travel had much to do with the Bard’s writing of Romeo and Juliet.

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Anna George and Roland Perry

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2021/04/08

Can the attitudes within school, work and marriage be changed? Can society become fairer? Anna Geoge has a very hopeful and insightfully humorous book about all of this happening in 'Tipping'.‘The Shaman’ is Roland Perry’s latest novel about the personal and political repercussions when wealthy companies and self interested states vie for control of the oil industry and the elusive key to controlling cold fusion.

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Kavita Bedford and Allie Reynolds

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2021/04/01

‘Friends and Dark Shapes’ by Kavita Bedford has short sharp observations of emotions, memories, landscapes and the difficulties of being a mature adult, or whatever that is.In the best traditions of Agatha Christie, Allie Reynolds’ murder mystery, 'Shiver,' leads the reader on an intriguing journey to determine ‘who done it’ with the characters all implicated but confined to a chalet close to a glacier in the alps.

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