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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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Mark Brandi and Miriam Sved

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2019/03/28

Mark Brandi takes us into the drug sub-culture of Melbourne in his latest novel, 'The Rip'.The unsolved mysteries in the world of mathematics may cross all boundaries but will maths help to make or break a family in 'A Universe of Sufficient Size' by Miriam Sved.

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Peggy Frew

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2019/03/21

An island can be a holiday destination as well as a metaphor for social and family continuity, but it can also represent how isolated individuals can become. These actions are explored in Peggy Frew's 'Islands'.

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Alison Evans and Andy Muir

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2019/03/14

'Highway Bodies' is a young-adult zombie-apocalypse novel by award-winning author Alison Evans.Crime is a caper in which the individual is often powerless. Such is the case for Lachie Munro, in Andy Muir's novel, 'Hiding to Nothing'.

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Katherine Kovacic and Fiona Lowe

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2019/03/07

A cursed painting sets the tone for the latest murder mystery by Katherine Kovacic, 'Painting in the Shadows'. Will art dealer, Alex Clayton identify the clues that sets forgeries apart from the truth?Fires leave devasted bush land, burnt buildings and fractured relationships. 'Home Fires' by Fiona Lowe is set in the fictional community of Myrtle, before and after with the rebuilding and the ongoing hurt.

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Lilit Thwaites and Graeme Simsion

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2019/02/28

'The Librarian of Auschwitz' is a story of courage and hope, written in Spanish by Antonio Iturbe and translated by Lilit Thwaites.Don Tillman, the hero of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect, now confronts raising his eleven year old son and the labels applied to children and those on the autism spectrum. The author is, or course, Graeme Simsion and the book is 'The Rosie Rebuilt'.

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Karen Viggers and J P Pomere

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2019/02/21

Logging or tourism, parenting attitudes, control, good fiction and football all come into play in a small Tasmanian community with 'The Orchardist's Daughter' by Karen Viggers.Identity, memory and abduction form the thread of intrigue in 'Call Me Evie' by J P Pomere.

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Kirsten Alexander and Jane Carswell

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2019/02/14

A son is lost, a child is found and a trial ensues in Kirsten Alexander's 'Half Moon Lake' which questions if choice is prejudiced to the white and wealthy, set in America, 1913.Contemplative, Jane Carswell's work, 'Talk of Treasure' takes us on the journey of a book coming to fruition in a tale that is both mediative and thoughtful.

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Bren MacDibble and Kate Richards

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2019/02/07

Once again, Bren MacDibble takes us into the immediate future where food secuity is compromised. 'The Dog Runner' looks at what happens when all grasses are destroyed and ten year old Ella and her half-brother, Emery, have to survive.How do you find your own identity, especially if you have a disability. Twins, Sea and Serene are co-joined physically, but does this make them agree to everything? 'Fusion' by Kate Richards is fiction but immensely believable.

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Emily Brewin - Small Blessings

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2019/01/31

Two worlds converge in Emily Brewin's, 'Small Blessings'; the priviledged life of Isobel and Rosie's social poverty. Both, however, are blessed in ways they perhaps don't realize despite the challenges they face.

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Anne Elder - a poet's life

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2019/01/24

The Anne Elder Award has been bestowed annually since 1977 to recognize the best first book of poetry by Australian writers. The anthology, The Bright and the Cold, compiled by her daughter Catherine, and the biography, The Heart's Ground, written by Anne's niece, Julia Hamer, provide a perspective of a poetic voice and the creative spirit of an Australian poet who was the contemporary of such voices as Bruce Dawe, Judith Rodriguez and Les Murray. Copies of both works are available from Readings

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Holly Throsby and Margaret Morgan

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2019/01/17

Holly Throsby has another small town crime or mystery read. Two people come to 'Cedar Valley' on the same day, one to find out about her mother, the other to die.Australia is divided. Those effected by the virus have enhanced creativity but can't get into Cornucopia, a religous republic in the north. 'The Second Cure' is a fascinating read about scientific possibilities and political divides by Margaret Morgan.

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Bill Jenkins and Rosalie Ham

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2018/12/13

Bill Jenkins explores the frailties, quirks and contradictions of individuals in his poetry collection, We Carry the Cave. As a psychologist,pastor and scientist, his perspective is both telling and revealing.Rosalie Ham takes us through drought, infidelity and administrative corruption in her latest novel about life on the land. It's entitles The Year of the Farmer.

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Toni Jordan and June Laurie

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2018/12/06

Toni Jordan has written about a lost book and a secret love in 'The Fragments' which connects a literary mystery with the transitional times in politcs of 1936 and 1986.June Laurie's adolescent novel, 'into the air' is part of the Blake Collider series where we are taken into the strange world of the CERN laboratory and dimensional travel.

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Jadan Carroll and Jane Harper

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2018/11/29

'(Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time' is a charming and humorous gift book by Jadan Carroll with illustrations by Molly Dyson.A death on a remote cattle station, murder or suicide, but why? Jane Harper's 'The Lost Man' is a crime novel involving three brothers.

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Carrie Kablean and Chris Hammer

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2018/11/22

If you enjoyed Pride and Prejudice and wondered what happened to some of the characters, you will delight in 'What Kitty Did Next' by Carrie Kablean.Chris Hammer takes us through the scorching landscape of outback Australia in his psychological thriller, 'Scrublands' delving into an inexplicable atrocity in a country town.

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Markus Zusak

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2018/11/15

"The mystery of how boys and brothers love" is at the very core and a quote from Markus Zusak's 'Bridge of Clay'.

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About Clive James

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2018/11/08

The latest two poetry collections by Clive James - Injury Time and The River in the Sky - seemingly defy his terminal cancer diagnosis. He continues to write and the compulsion has led to evocative recollections of his life that are touching, insightful and memorable. His inevitable demise seems to have opened up new horizons for examination and discussion.

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Jock Serong and Katherine Collette

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2018/11/01

Jock Serong delves into an often overlooked chapter of early Australian history in his novel, 'Preservation' which addresses the puzzling riddle of The Sydney Cove wreck in 1797 and its cargo of rum.Would life be simpler if relationships were mathematical instead of emotional, perhaps so, but not near as much fun as Katherine Collette has written about in 'The Helpline'.

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Alec Patric and Ilka Tampke

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2018/10/25

Alec Patric delves into the impulses and desires driving individuals in his short story collection, 'The Butcherbird Stories'.A woman, learned in spirtual ways, helps to lead the tribes fighting against the Romans during the iron age in Ilka Tampke's 'Songwoman'.

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Claire Varley and Bridie Jabour

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2018/10/18

Claire Varley has interconnected five characters in 'The Book of Ordinary People' who by telling their own stories, or by hearing other's stories, learn more about themselves.It is always a perfect storm of comedy, tension and second thoughts when families gather for a wedding. Bridie Jabour fathoms these dedpths in her novel 'The Way Things Should Be'.

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