The Book Show
286 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn-depth conversations with the best fiction writers from Australia and around the world.
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Episodes
History near and far with Caoilinn Hughes and Jock Serong
September 14, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBCaoilinn Hughes' deep dive into the 2008 Irish financial crisis and Jock Serong's investigation of a 19th century shipwreck.
Stories of love, pain and history with John Boyne and Jing-Jing Lee
September 07, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MBJohn Boyne's novel that spans 2000 years, a debut novel about growing up Guyanese in Australia and Jing-Jing Lee on her novel about the Japanese occupation of Singapore.
Revealing truths with Elizabeth Strout and Frances Cha
August 31, 2020 00:05 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBElizabeth Strout on Olive Kitteridge, the writer's room of fantasy author Juliet Mariller and Frances Cha's book about young women of Seoul.
Daring debuts with Charlie Kaufman and Jessie Tu
August 24, 2020 00:05 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MBAmerican screenwriter Charlie Kaufman pivots to the novel and Australian Jessie Tu's bold debut.
Predicting a pandemic with Lawrence Wright
August 17, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBLawrence Wright on his novel The End of October about a pandemic that starts in Asia and sweeps the world in 2020.
Stardom in the spotlight with Anne Enright
August 10, 2020 00:05 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBAnne Enright's novel about the theatre, authors on writing the difficult second novel and Tommy Wieringa's obsession with small villages.
Love and Les Mis with Roddy Doyle and Kester Grant
August 03, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBIrish novelist Roddy Doyle on Love, Vogel winner KM Kruimink has a writer’s hotline and Les Misérables inspired fantasy fiction.
Kate Grenville and Julie Janson's different takes on Australian history
July 27, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBTwo novelists, one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous, talk about the same period of Australia's colonial history.
Music and language with David Mitchell and Tara June Winch
July 20, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 50 MBDavid Mitchell celebrates the power of music in Utopia Avenue, Jane Austen inspired fiction and Tara June Winch, winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award.
Pandemics and ponzi schemes with Emily St John Mandel
July 13, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBEmily St John Mandel on The Glass Hotel and pandemics in fiction, a preview of the Miles Franklin shortlist and Ronnie Scott on his debut The Adversary.
Masterclass with Tim Winton, Arundhati Roy, Michael Ondaatje and more
July 06, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBSome of the biggest names from the writing world share their top writing tips.
Striving for better with Richard Ford and Jacqueline Woodson
June 29, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBRichard Ford's love of the Irish, Wai Chim and Melanie Cheng have a writers' hotline session and Jacqueline Woodson's growing list of awards.
Writing and representation with Angie Cruz, C Pam Zhang, Omar Sakr and Michelle Law
June 22, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThree books that explore the world through the eyes of minorities and outsiders: Angie Cruz on Dominicana, After Australia anthology and C Pam Zhang's alternative version of the American West.
A talking mammoth steals the show
June 15, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBMeet Celeste Ng author of Little Fires Everywhere and Mammut, the talking fossil, and hear from prominent Australian authors on the future after Corona virus.
Bernardine Evaristo's win for experimental writers
June 08, 2020 00:05 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBBernardine Evaristo on her Booker winning novel, John Burnside shares the power of poetry and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife.
Help and hope with Mitch Albom, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Ellen van Neerven
June 01, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBMitch Albom on writing a serialised novel, Munanjali author Ellen van Neerven has a hotline with Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann and Canadian author Zalika Reid-Benta's debut novel.
Curtis Sittenfeld's second novel about a First Lady
May 25, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBCurtis Sittenfeld on Hillary Clinton in Rodham, father and daughter writers Peter and Anna Goldsworthy, Mirandi Riwoe's novel set on the Queensland goldfields.
Max Barry's alien story for grown ups
May 18, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBMax Barry's latest novel, a science fiction thriller called Providence, Covid 19 impacts on the book industry and Booker International shortlisted Australian author Shokoofeh Azar.
Breaking the silence with Candace Bushnell and Carmen Maria Machado
May 11, 2020 00:05 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBCandace Bushnell's Rules for Being a Girl, Carmen Maria Machado's inventive memoir, Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer winning novel and Danielle Binks asks for writing advice from Sally Rippin.
Bringing back Neanderthals in fiction
May 04, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBJames Bradley and Donna Mazza on resurrecting Neanderthals in fiction, prolific American crime writer David Baldacci, and Vivian Pham's debut at 19.
Fighting for New York with NK Jemisin
April 27, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBHugo Award winning novelist NK Jemisin on her prescient novel The City We Became, Angela Savage on being an ethical writer, and thoughts on the distracted reader.
Record breaking author Jokha Alharthi
April 20, 2020 00:05 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBOmani writer, Jokha Alharthi's record breaking career, fantasy author Lian Hearn's retirement and the longest running book club in Australia.
Love and memory with Howard Jacobson, Rebecca Makkai and Tony Birch
April 13, 2020 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBBooker winner Howard Jacobson's latest, Pulitzer finalist Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers and Tony Birch's The White Girl.
Who will win the Stella Prize?
April 06, 2020 00:05 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBA look a the Stella prize shortlist, Sebastian Barry's follow up to Days Without End and The Dictionary of Lost Words, a moving debut.
Fairy tales and fiction collide
March 29, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBAward winning American author Ann Patchett on wicked stepmothers, Intan Paramaditha's choose your own adventure, and can machines read?
How to help writers during lockdown
March 22, 2020 23:53 - 4 minutes - 3.97 MBOne of the main ways to help writers is to keep reading!
Contagion and zombie fiction
March 22, 2020 23:32 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBWhat are the links between contagion and zombie fiction?
The new reality of working from home and no more book launches
March 22, 2020 23:26 - 5 minutes - 5.42 MBAdvice on working from home and authors whose book launches and tours have been cancelled.
Writers report from Italy, France and USA
March 22, 2020 23:05 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBHow are writers in international hotspots coping with the spread of coronavirus and lockdowns?
Writing in the time of coronavirus
March 22, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBFeel like you've just stepped out of a dystopian novel? We ask writers around the world how they're faring and can reading contagion lit help in times like these?
Chigozie Obioma's lament for Nigeria
March 15, 2020 23:40 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBNigerian writer Chigozie Obioma's Booker shortlisted novel An Orchestra of Minorities recalls Greek tragedy.
Writer's hotline with Charlotte Wood
March 15, 2020 23:30 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBStella prize winning author Charlotte Wood gives debut writer Mandy Beaumont advice on how to write feminist themes.
Anna Goldsworthy's bittersweet Melting Moments
March 15, 2020 23:05 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBFeminism, family and dessert feature in Anna Goldsworthy's debut novel, which charts the life and marriage of a wartime bride in Adelaide.
Writers draw on generational knowledge
March 15, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBAward winning memoirist and pianist Anna Goldworthy's foray into fiction, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Chigozie Obioma, and Charlotte Wood gives writing advice.
Muscogee Creek Nation poet Joy Harjo
March 08, 2020 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBThe 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, Joy Harjo belongs to the Muscogee Creek Nation and is also a musician and playwright.
Hilary Mantel's final instalment in her Wolf Hall trilogy
March 01, 2020 23:42 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBThere have been few books more highly anticipated than Hilary Mantel's third and final volume in her wildly successful Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror and the Light.
Teen reads — Yoshna recommends her own book
March 01, 2020 23:39 - 2 minutes - 2.36 MBAt 13, Yoshna is already a published author.
Binge writing in Holden Sheppard's office
March 01, 2020 23:28 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBInvisible Boys author Holden Sheppard takes us inside his writing room.
Irish writer Eimear McBride's Strange Hotel
March 01, 2020 23:05 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBFrom page one of this book, you know that you're in for a very different reading experience.
Hilary Mantel and Eimear McBride experiment with language and tradition
March 01, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBHilary Mantel's very long and lauded trilogy of Thomas Cromwell, next to the very slender Eimear McBride novel which pushes the boundaries of form and style.
Power of place in fiction
February 23, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBAuthors Julia Phillips, H.M. Naqvi and Pitchaya Sudbanthad take us to Bangkok, Karachi and the Russian Far East.
New Australian Children's Laureate Ursula Dubosarsky
February 16, 2020 23:40 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBAuthor of over 60 books for children, Ursula Dubsosarsky takes the helm of this two year position.
Writer's hotline with Michael Robotham
February 16, 2020 23:31 - 8 minutes - 8.18 MBThriller writer JP Pomare asks writing advice from veteran crime writer Michael Robotham.
Getting eerie with Evie Wyld
February 16, 2020 23:05 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBMiles Franklin winning author Evie Wyld returns with a new novel The Bass Rock.
Women, murder and menace in Evie Wyld’s gothic novel
February 16, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBThree generations of women face the threat of violent and predatory men in Miles Franklin winner Evie Wyld’s new novel, The Bass Rock.
Bestselling authors writing audiobooks
February 09, 2020 23:40 - 16 minutes - 15 MBBestselling authors Nikki Gemmell and Juliet Marillier on writing for audiobooks.
Robert Gott's writer's room
February 09, 2020 23:30 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBRobert's writing room is in the centre of his small, "tumble down" house.
Looking to the future with William Gibson
February 09, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBWhy is founding father of cyberpunk, William Gibson, worried about the future?
Fall-out from American Dirt
February 02, 2020 23:42 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBThe novel American Dirt has exposed fissures in American publishing around issues of race, representation and cultural appropriation, what's the Australian context?
Debut author Yumna Kassab's writer's hotline with Melina Marchetta
February 02, 2020 23:30 - 9 minutes - 9.07 MBThe first Writer's Hotline with Yumna Kassab, who asks Looking for Alibrandi author, Melina Marchetta, for writing advice.