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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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Jock Serong and Alex Miller

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2020/10/08

Jock Serong, in 'The Burning Island', takes us on an epic journey into Australia’s early days; the shipwrecks, the eccentric individuals and odd communities found on the islands in Bass Strait.The how and why of Alex Miller's search into finding the facts about his friend Max Blatt, a Nazi-resistance figure, make for an interesting read of connections in 'Max'.

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Monica McInerney and Barry Lee Thompson

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2020/10/01

Eliza's godmothers are her mother's best friends. Will they be able to help her find her father? Friendships and truths are at the heart of 'The Godmothers' by Monica McInerney.The stories in Barry Lee Thompson’s collection, ‘Broken Rules and Other Stories’ are united by the universal elements of the unspoken and unstated especially where the question of one’s sexuality is involved.

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Jane Harper and Sam Coley

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2020/09/24

No one had come through the storm unscathed. Twelve years later, and with another death, blame and guilt rise to the surface again in 'The Survivor' by Jane Harper.‘State Highway One’ is Sam Coley’s road trip narrative of a protagonist taking on the physical, emotional and psychological challenges associated with the loss of his parents, his sexuality and his twin sister’s betrayal.

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Deborah Challinor and Lili Wilkinson

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2020/09/17

Kings Cross in the 60's is a place to swing, or a place to hide. There is a collection of friends who are trying to find their own identities while helping each other, in Deborah Challinor's 'The Jacaranda House'.Memory and identity collide in Lili Wilkinson’s adolescent psychological thriller, The Erasure Initiative.

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Meg Keneally and Paul Dalgarno

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2020/09/10

Rebellion and dissent were bubbling just below the surface in the early Australian colony which Meg Keneally explores in her latest historical fiction, 'The Wreck'. 'Poly', by Paul Dalgarno, is a funny and moving story of a man who wants it all in the normality of a not-so-normal modern family.

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Kathleen Jennings and Ewa Ramsey

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2020/09/03

Kathleen Jennings takes us behind the fairytale face of a country town to something a little more darkly mythic as her central character searches for her lost father and brothers in ‘Flyaway’.'The Morbids' by Ewa Ramsey is an uplifting book about anxiety, the depth of friendship and how different people and a variety of strategies can help in hurtful siturations.

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Christie Nieman and Melissa Davey

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2020/08/27

A mother is too full of shame and a daughter is too full of anger. When the past secrets meet the secrets of the present, will there be any forgiveness in 'Where We Begin' by Christie Nieman.Melissa Davey undertakes a forensic examination of all the court proceedings in ‘The Case of George Pell’.

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Peter O'Brien and Fin J Ross

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2020/08/20

Peter O’Brien takes us back in time in ‘Bush School’ highlighting the primitive living and learning conditions of a single-teacher classroom in rural New South Wales in 1960.Using big words may show scholarship but for a young girl in Early Melbourne they lead her into a propinquity in 'Billings Better Bookstore and Brasserie' by Fin J. Ross

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Pip Williams

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2020/08/13

Pip Williams has written a most engaging story of why a word may have been lost and how a woman engages in society in the early 1900's in 'The Dictionary of Lost Words'.

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Tom Keneally and Sisters in Crime

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2020/08/06

'The Dickens Boy' by Thomas Keneally looks at not just the life of Edward (Plorn) Dickens, the son of the great author sent to Australia when he was sixteen, but at the social landscape of a continent transforming itself in a new age. 'Sisters in Crime' is an open community of crime writers and readers. Carmel Shute explains how they are connected and what events are coming up in their on-line presence for everybody.

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Kyle Perry and Victoria Hannan

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2020/07/30

Crime fiction with more twists and surprises than the bush tracks through the atmospheric landscape of rugged Tasmania. Is it just bad choices or something worse that casuses the death of teenage females in 'The Bluff 'by Kyle Perry.Victoria Hannan has used the Beach Boy’s song, 'Kokomo', as the title of her novel where the protagonist, Mina, discovers the hidden secret that has kept her mother inside the family home for twelve years.

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Robbie Arnott and Rita Therese

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2020/07/23

Robbie Arnott in creating the myth of ‘The Rain Heron’ speaks eloquently about some of the attitudes and concerns we face today as a society. Bold, brave and darkly funny, Rita Therese writes about her life as an escort in 'Come, a memoir'

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Leonie Kelsall and Keith Banks

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2020/07/16

A traumatic past and an unexpected inheritance bring heart, humour and hope in 'The Farm at Peppertree Crossing' by Leonie Kelsall.Working as an undercover cop can be lonely and dangerous work. Keith Banks recounts his time in the corrupt Queensland years of the 70’s infiltrating the drug trade in ‘Drugs, Guns and Lies’

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Jessie Tu and Luke Horton

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2020/07/09

Jena Lin had a public life as a celebrated violinist and a private life as a raging sex addict. The how and why is fearlessly told in Jessie Tu's 'A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing'. Anxiety can be like a fog undermining relationships and making communication difficult. Such is the case in Luke Horton’s novel, 'The Fogging'.

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Kate Grenville and Patrick Mullins

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2020/07/02

Was Elizabeth Macarthur the demure woman history may have her to be? Kate Grenville has turned biographical fiction inside out in 'A Room Made of Leaves'. Patrick Mullins explores the absurdity of Australia’s past censorship laws in his account of the case against Philip Roth’s novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, in his work, ‘The Trials of Portnoy’.

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Patrick Allington and Dani Powell

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2020/06/25

Dystopian novels can be a little unsettling given the current global climate but Patrick Allington provides an insight into what we will consume in the future and how we will sate our appetites in his novel, Rise and Shine. Where there is life there is death, but how do different communities and individuals handle grief? Dani Powell has set 'Return to Dust' in and around Alice Springs.

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Imbi Neeme, Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick

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2020/06/18

When things happen in a family as they do in 'The Spilt' by Imbi Neeme, blame can be apportioned unfairly, this leads to moments of regret for things said to hurt, or things not said at all. What would have happened had Captain Cook been shipwrecked on the shores of a new continent instead of bumping into a reef? Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick explore this interesting notion in their novel, 'On a Barbarous Coast'.

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Fiona Harris, Mike McCleish and Dan Kaufman

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2020/06/11

Coffee and kids connect three parents until they are forced out of their respective comfort zones. They learn more about each oher and themselves than they thought possible in 'The Drop-off' by Fiona Harris and Mike McCleish. There is also a web series - what a laugh! Are men shallow or is it the society in which we live? Dan Kaufman explores how journalist and educator, David, handles middle age in ‘Drowning in the Shallows’.

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Anne Buist and L.A. Larkin

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2020/06/04

Is Isobel a better detective than she is a pscycholigist? She needs to solve the mystery of a baby's murder and prevent another possible tragedy in Anne Buist's ' The Long Shadow'.‘Prey’, by L A Larkin, takes us into the murderous world of poaching where political intrigue and corporate influence abound. Once again, Olivia Wolfe must solve a series of gruesome murders.

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Darleen Bungey and Hilde Hinton

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2020/05/28

Who can truly know their parents? Darleen Bungey writes about her celebrity father with a truthful eye and loving heart in 'Daddy Cool'.Hilde Hinton’s, ‘The Loudness of Unsaid Things’ highlights the evolving struggle children face when confronted with mental instability.

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