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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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Alice Robinson and Louise Le Nay

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2024/07/25

‘If You Go’ by Alice Robinson, is a domestic sci-fi about motherhood and what we pass onto our children.Marnie’s daughter has a raging drug habit and a repellent boyfriend. She can see the danger for her grandchildren. Her determination to keep them safe means she has to trust some strangers who become friends in ‘’Edenhope’ by Louise Le Nay.

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Tim Ayliffe and Anna Johnston

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2024/07/18

Tim Ayliffe weaves a web of intrigue in 'The Wrong Man' where deaths of young women two years apart have a mysterious connection linked to a serial killer. The corruption within the police force impedes the investigation and there is a suggestion a not so innocent man has been framed.Fred is kind and has so much love to give, but no one to give it to. Mistaken identity gives him not only security and friends, but also immense guilt in Anna Johnston’s ‘The Borrowed Life of Frederick

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Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion and Jane Sullivan

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2024/07/04

‘The Glass House’ by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion delves into the challenges faced by both psychiatric patients and clinicians as they seek diagnoses and an equitable path forward with their lives. ‘Murder in Punch Lane’ has well known people as suspects in Jane Sullivan’s gothic crime novel set in the laneways of 19th century Melbourne.

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Lauren Draper and Robert Gott

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2024/06/27

Before mobiles there were letters and that’s how three friends from the past communicated. The letters were found and three friends from now want to solve the mystery of who they were and what happened to them. In solving the mystery they also learn about themselves in 'Return to Sender' by Lauren Draper.'Naked Ambition' is Robert Gott's hilarious look at politicians, the Archibald Prize and Christian fundamentalism. A politician sees no problem being painted in the nude but the repercussions

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Lia Hills and W H Chong

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2024/06/20

A child walks out of the Wimmera desert in Lia Hills' novel, The Desert Knows Her Name'. She is an enigma that others, all with their own agends, try to solve.'Portraits' by W. H. Chong is a collection of more than 300 drawings of artists, writers, musicians and thinkers.

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Radiothon with Clan Destine Press

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2024/06/13

Lindy Cameron, Hugh McGinlay, Narrelle Harris and Robert Gott talk all things crime while constantly being interrupted through the Radiothon Program.

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Helen Brown and Jenny Ackland

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2024/06/06

The changes that happen from primary school to high school with friends, family and your own body can be difficult. Helen Brown has the love of ‘Mickey’ to help her and writes about this cat and these incidents with humour and understanding. Jenny Ackland explores a dystopian future in her latest novel, 'Hurdy Gurdy', where a troupe of female performers provide more than just entertainment especially for women in need.

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Michael Brissenden and Ruby Todd

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2024/05/30

There is murder and corruption in Michael Brissenden's 'Smoke' where loyalty and betrayal are exposed after a fire has ravaged a small community. The consequences of a once in a lifetime comet will reveal long held secrets, astronomy, romance and a thriller ending in Ruby Todd’s, ‘Bright Objects’.

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Richard Broome and Bri Lee

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2024/05/23

Richard Broome tells the story of early European contact with its guns, diseases and ideas upon the First Nations people of Victoria in 'Aboriginal Victorians'.'The Work; by Bri Lee is a stunning debut novel about power, art and money.

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Fiona Lowe and Jo Peck

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2024/05/16

'The Accident' by Fiona Lowe is a story of a devastating accident with a shocking web of lies. What happens when you are‘Suddenly Single at Sixty’? Jo Peck has written of her loss, anger and hurt along with her social experiment of on-line dating, in this often humorous memoir.

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Garry Disher and Lisa Ireland

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2024/05/09

Garry Disher's latest novel, 'Sanctuary', reveals a world of scams, crime, corruption and characters seeking solace while, all the while, looking over their shoulders lest they are made accountable for their misdeeds.They met in 1958 in Holywood when producers controlled every aspect of an actor's life . Three of the four friends continued to meet regularly. Fifty years later they learn the reason behind one of their friends betrayal to the group in 'The Studio Girls' by Lisa Ireland.

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Andrea Barton and Louise Milligan

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2024/05/02

Organised crime and ballroom dancing go hand in hand in Andrea Barton's novel, 'The Godfather of Dance'. Both are cutthroat industries.‘Pheasants Nest’ is a crime novel of rape and abduction. As well as action and suspense, Louise Milligan has created characters which give this book a realistic heart.

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Miranda Darling and Sisters in Crime

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2024/04/25

The woman, mother, wife in Miranda Darling’s book is so much more, but will she spiral with subservient silence into her relationship or will her anger compound into a climatic burst and the title of this book is ‘Thunderhead‘.Carmel Shute tells us what’s happening with ‘Sisters in Crime’.

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Lisa Medved and Lauren Chater

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2024/04/18

An ancient map links two women from the studio of Ruebens in the 1620’s to Antwerp today, Lisa Medved’s historical research and clever cryptic clues have you guessing in ‘The Engraver’s Secret’.Lauren Chater takes us back to Restoration England where theatre and art gave women greater agency in 'The Beauties' and where a commoner married a soon to be king.

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Lili Wilkinson and Paul Morgan

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2024/04/11

Magic, humour, horror and even romance are ‘mettled’ together in Lili Wilkinson’s latest tale of not so damsel in distress and a secret society, featuring sinister Toadmen, in ‘Deep is the Fen’.‘The Winter Palace’ by Paul Morgan is a sumptuous novel of war, survival and love.

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Amanda Hampson and Ouyang Yu

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2024/04/04

‘The Cryptic Clue’ is a crime novel which puts capable older women in the spotlight and brings laughs about attitudes and happenings from the not so distant past. This is another Tea Ladies mystery written by Amanda Hampson.Ouyang Yu explores the dissonance between cultures which can lead to both comic outcomes and even a sense of loss in his collection of stories, 'The White Cockatoo Flowers'.

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Myfanwy Jones and Bella Ellwood-Clayton

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2024/03/28

Myfanwy Jones takes us into the historical past associated with the Queensland Tablelands and the friction between fathers and sons over three generations in, 'Cool Water'. An unflinching portrayal of modernday parenting is revealed in Bella Ellwood-Clayton's novel, 'Weekend Friends'.

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Ernest Price and Amy Matthews

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2024/03/21

'The Pyramid of Needs' by Ernest Price is a darkly funny story about transphobia and family dysfunction.'Someone Else's Bucket List' by Amy Matthews is an exploration of values in the digital age as much as it is a story of an individual finding romance and her own identity.

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Ernest Price and Amy Matthews

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2024/03/21

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Anne Freeman and Steven Carroll

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2024/03/14

Anne Freeman's novel, 'Me That You See' is a thrilling glimpse into online sex work.Steven Carroll's murder mystery, 'Death of a Foreign Gentleman', may appear to be simply detective fiction but we are taken on a whirlwind historical tour of philosophy and literature as the crime is finally solved.

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