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3:39

Book Club - Catherine Jinks’ Panic

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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

4:28

Book Club - Holden Sheppard's Invisible Boys

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2025/02/18

This week we've checked out the first episode of Holden Sheppard's Invisible Boys.Invisible Boys is the award winning debut novel from Holden Sheppard and is now a smash hit series on Stan. Holden even pops by to talk about pioneering queer storytelling and adapting his show for the screen. 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 and discover your next favourite read! Book Club is

21:54

Ashley Kalagian Blunt's Cold Truth

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2025/02/15

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. Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the author of Dark Mode, shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year. Her new novel is Cold Truth. Ashley is in conversation with Felix Shannon Harlow Close has made a career as an influencer

21:21

Welcoming Felix Shannon to Final Draft

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2025/02/13

In a special, bonus episode, Andrew welcomes Felix Shannon as a regular on the Final Draft podcast. Felix is the renowned host of Death of the Reader and joins us with fresh ideas and a unique way of reading and discovering books.

34:38

Karina May’s That Island Feeling

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2025/02/06

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. 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

4:12

Book Club - Sean Wilson's You Must Remember This

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2025/02/04

Sean Wilson is the author of Gemini Falls. He has been shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights Award by Sydney Theatre Company. Sean’s new novel is You Must Remember This. On a warm autumn evening Grace decides to go for walk. It must be autumn judging from the temperature, and Grace was going to… she’s well, surely it will come back to her. Hours later, and with her family panicked Grace will be helped home by the police. Grace's daughter Liz assures her she’ll like her new room, but nothing

48:35

Lech Blaine’s Australian Gospel

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2025/01/31

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. Lech Blaine is the author of the memoir Car Crash and the Quarterly Essays Top Blokes and Bad Cop. His new work is Australian Gospel. Australian Gospel is a family saga, it’s Lech's family saga, detailing the lives of his mum & dad, and his

40:27

Esther Campion’s The Writing Class

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2024/12/20

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. Esther hails from Cork, Ireland and lives in the North West of Tasmania. Esther is the author of Leaving Ocean Road and The House of Second Chances. She’s joining us today with her new novel The Writing Class. We’d all like to believe we’re

6:59

Book Club - End of Year Picks and Xmas Gift Guide 2024

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2024/12/18

Here are my End of Year Picks and a few recommendations for buying Xmas Gifts for the book lover in your life!Lech Blaine’s Australian Gospel ‘A Family Saga’. Australian Gospel tells the story of Lech’s siblings. It’s a big family and Lech’s mum and dad Tom and Lenore fostered five children in the years before Lech was born. Three of those children, Lech’s brothers and sisters, happen to be the biological offspring of Michael and Mary Shelley. Buy it for - Anyone looking for a good Aussie

35:17

Emma Grey’s Pictures of You

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2024/12/13

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. Emma Grey is a writer, novelist and photographer. Her novel the Last Love Note was a global bestseller and today she’s joining us with her new novel Pictures of You. At sixteen years old Evie Hudson feels too young to be married, let alone

4:14

Book Club - Lech Blaine’s Australian Gospel

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2024/12/11

Lech Blaine is the author of the memoir Car Crash and the Quarterly Essays Top Blokes and Bad Cop. His new work is Australian Gospel.Australian Gospel has the subtitle ‘A Family Saga’. It takes only a cursory glance at the back cover synopsis to understand why Australian Gospel works to reassure readers that this is a very real, very true story. The story contained between the covers and the ride Lech Blaine is about to take you on, well if it wasn’t true, you absolutely would not believe it. Lech

43:59

Peter FitzSimon's The Legend of Albert Jacka

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2024/12/06

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. Peter FitzSimons is a journalist and writer, former Wallaby and a member of the order of Australia. Peter is celebrated for his history and biography writing and today he's joining us with his new book The Legend of Albert Jacka. Final

4:09

Book Club - Esther Campion’s The Writing Class

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2024/12/04

Esther Campion hails from Cork, but has made the North West of Tasmania her home. She is the author of Leaving Ocean Road and The House of Second Chances. Esther’s new novel is called The Writing Class. --------- We’d all like to believe we’re the authors of our own story, but when Vivian’s husband Dave abandons her, she learns the hard way there are some twists she wouldn’t have plotted for herself. Back home in Tasmania, Vivian is at a loss for what to do with herself until a chance encounter

37:57

Emily Tsokos Purtill's Matia

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2024/12/01

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. Emily is a lawyer and writer of Greek heritage based in Western Australia. Her writing has been published in Westerly, Griffith Review and Science Write Now. Emily is joining us with her debut novel Matia. When Sia emigrates from her

3:46

Book Club - Emma Grey’s Pictures of You

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2024/11/22

Emma Grey is a writer, novelist and photographer. Her novel the Last Love Note was a global bestseller. Her new novel is Pictures of You.At sixteen years old Evie Hudson feels too young to be married, let alone a widow. And that’s the problem, Evie’s not sixteen but the accident that killed her husband Oliver also stole her memory. Now she believes she’s a teenager. Thrown back to a time when she felt safe. But safe from what? Evie’s lost her memory, which throws up more than a few problems. The

35:56

Mike Barry's Action Tank

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2024/11/17

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. Mike Barry is an award winning writer and artist. His Action Tank series has won the Comic Arts Award of Australia and has been shortlisted for a slew of awards including the NSW Premiers Literary Award and the Aurealis. Mike’s joining us

3:34

Book Club - Emily Maguire’s Rapture

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2024/11/15

Emily Maguire is the author of seven novels and has been shortlisted for the Stella, the Miles Franklin and many more awards. In Emily Maguire’s new novel Rapture, the life of a young woman in ninth century Europe is fraught at best. Under her father’s roof Agnes is indulged in her reading and stands out for her intelligence and wit. But this is no life for a girl, let alone a woman and Agnes must soon face the prospect that she will be married off. Rejecting this fate Agnes implores her father’s

35:05

Ann Liang's A Song to Drown Rivers

Final Draft - Great Conversations ·

2024/11/10

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. Ann Liang is a New York Times bestselling author of YA novels This Time It’s Real, If You Could See the Sun, and I Hope This Doesn't Find You. She’s joining us today with her new novel A Song to Drown Rivers. In the fractured kingdom of

4:14

Book Club - Tigest Girma’s Immortal Dark

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2024/11/08

Tigest Girma is an Ethiopian writer based in Melbourne. Her debut novel is Immortal Dark. ----- Kidan Adane has been living a half life since the disappearance of her sister. Ever since Kidan and her sister June were rescued as children they have lived in fear that they will be discovered by the dranaics, immortal creatures who live on the blood of humans. The dranaics power has been tempered somewhat by their bond to specific human bloodlines. Unfortunately Kidan’s family is one such

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