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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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Phil Copsey and George Ivanoff

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2018/06/07

Blue Justice is a gritty Melbourne crime novel that draws on Phil Copsey's four decades in the police force.Other Worlds is an intriguing series by Melbourne author, George Ivanoff, that invites the younger reader to let their imaginations run wild and visit impossible but plausible worlds.

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Megan Goldin and Enza Gandolfo

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2018/05/31

Megan Goldin’s novel, The Escape Room, delves into the murky world of finance where people are literally prepared to murder to make money. But what happens when some of those corrupt executives become caught in an elevator? A Penguin publication.The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo is a moving and poignant novel that revolves around Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge. Two tragic accidents four decades apart deeply affect the lives of families in and around Yarraville. A Scribe Publication.

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Sue Williams and Glenda Guest

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2018/05/24

Just how does a woman operating a fish and chip shop in rural Australia become a private detective influencing commercial development in Australia? Sue Williams shows us how in the amusing 'Live and Let Fry'.Glenda Guest takes us on a trans-Australian journey of both distance and memory in her novel, 'A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline'.

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Jay Kristoff and Yvonne Fein

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2018/05/17

Award-winning and NY Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff's latest riveting young adult sci-fi novel is LIFEL1K3 (Lifelike), published by Allen & Unwin.Yvonne Fein takes us into the layered intensity of Jewish culture in her absorbing collection of short stories, Choose Somebody Else, published by Wild Dingo Press.

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Peter FitzSimons and Vikki Petraitis

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2018/05/10

The orchestration of Monash's battle at Le Hamel in France is compellingly detailed in Monash's Masterpiece by Peter FitzSimons, published by Hachette Australia.Once A Copper: The Life and Times of Brian 'The Skull' Murphy is the latest gripping true-crime book written by award-winning author Vikki Petraitis, published by Wild Dingo Press.

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Jenny Ackland and Julie Prendergast

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2018/05/03

'Little Gods' by Jenny Ackland has a young girl on the cusp of womanhood who wants to find answers to a family secret but also learns that the truth doesn't always set you free.Family and social dysfunction feature heavily in Julie Prendergast's 'The Earth Does Not Get Fat'.

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Brendan Lawley and Fiona Lowe

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2018/04/26

'Bonesland' by Brendan Lawley, takes us on an adolescent journey full of testosterone trauma.An extended family is tangled together by a wealthy inheritance, secrets, simmering childhood rivalry and betrayal in Fiona Lowe's 'Birthright'.

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Michelle Scott Tucker and Robert Hillman

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2018/04/19

Michelle Scott Tucker has written the biography of an ordinagry English country woman who fell in love with a difficult man and came with him to New South Wales in 1790 in 'Elizabeth Macarthur; A life at the edge of the world'.Never say never is the maxim of Robert Hillman's latest work, 'The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted'.

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Michael Mohammed Ahmad

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2018/04/12

An extended interview with Michael Mohammed Ahmad about his novel, The Lebs, which illustrates the struggles of Bani Adam who is coming to terms with his sexual and cultural identity in the Australian Muslim community of Sydney's Punchbowl.

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S. A. Jones and Mira Robertson

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2018/04/05

S. A. Jones has cleverly written about the many and varied sexual encounters in 'The Fortress' where men have to be subservient to women.Emily's horizons are broadened after she is dispatched to the family property in Mira Robertson's, 'The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean'.

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Rodney Hall and Robert Lukins

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2018/03/29

Rodney Hall explores the self-imposed shackles and constraints of society in 'A Stolen Season'.'The Everlasting Sunday' by Robert Lukins has boys in trouble, learning about surviving, not just against a vindictive winter but for life.

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Katherine Kovacic and Ada Langton

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2018/03/22

Investigate the death of an aspiring writer in Katherine Kovacic's, 'The Portrait of Molly Dean'.The tragedy of war, the power of hope and all sorts of love are at the heart of Ada Langton's novel 'The Art of Preserving Love'.

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Mike McCoy and Gert Loveday

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2018/03/15

'What the Light Reveals' by Mike McCoy delves into identity and allegiances in the Cold War era of Australia's past.Gert Loveday is the author of 'Writing is Easy' and also the humourous invention of Gabrielle Daly and Joan Kerr.

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Debra Oswald and Judy Bierwirth

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2018/03/08

Debra Oswald's 'The Whole Bright Year' is a fiction about growing up. She chats with Judy Bierwirth as they both have writen for stage and screen.

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Craig Sherborne and Sally Hepworth

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2018/03/01

A novel for the modern male, Craig Sherborne's, 'Off the Record', skewers the male ego and current day journalism.How well do you know your neighbours? Sally Hepworth has interesting twists and turns in 'The Family Next Door'.

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James Phelan and Shokoofeh Azar

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2018/02/22

Intrigue, espionage and a global threat are at the heart of James Phelan's 'The Agency'.The revolution in Iran is combined with magic realism in 'The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree' beautifully written by Shokoofeh Azar.

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Lynette Washington

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2018/02/15

There are countless stories to be found behind each door of a single street as Lynette Washington discovers in 'Plane Tree Drive'.

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Richard Holt and Anna Snoekstra

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2018/02/08

Richard Holt's, 'What You Might Find', is an entertaining collection of micro-fiction with a poetic bent.What will an aspiring journalist do get out of her small country town? Anna Snoekstra has many twists and turns in 'Little Secrets'.

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Anne Buist and Penni Russon

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2018/02/01

Who should have custody? Author, Anne Buist, has used her own knowledge as a psychiatrist in the psychological thriller, 'This I Would Kill For'.A family relocating to a haunted house, riviving the spirits from the past and exposing family friction in Penni Russon's, 'The Endsister'.

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Nadia Wright and Kate Murdoch

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2018/01/25

Nadia Wright explores the myth of Raffles and the contribution of William Farquhar in her account, 'William Farquhar and Singapore'.Medieval Italy is the setting for Kate Murdoch's 'Stone Circle' with romance and the craft of geomancy, incantations and shape shifting in the plot.

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