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
Michael Christie's climate change novel Greenwood
February 02, 2020 23:05 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBGreenwood is a sprawling epic about trees, families and climate change.
Future of trees with Canadian Writer Michael Christie
February 02, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBGreenwood is a sprawling epic about trees, families and climate change.
The future of trees with Canadian Writer Michael Christie
February 02, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBGreenwood is a sprawling epic about trees, families and climate change.
Finding the right words
January 26, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBAustralian author Karen Brooks on being called a witch, Rodney Hall's favourite dictionary and Jamaican writer Curdella Forbes' creole infused fiction.
Finding home in times of exile
January 19, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBIsabel Allende asks where she belongs, writers respond to the bushfire crisis and finding Anne Bronte 200 years after her birth.
Retelling Pericles with Ali Smith and Mark Haddon
January 12, 2020 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBThe two British authors have used elements of Shakespeare's tale in their latest novel. Christos Tsiolkas has chosen a different source: St Paul.
Siri Hustvedt makes it in New York
January 05, 2020 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBShe brings her history as a struggling young writer in the big city to her latest novel Memories of the Future.
Dreams, sleep, and nightmares in fiction and writing
December 29, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBWriters Jasper Fforde, Karen Thompson Walker and Krissy Kneen explore the connection between dreams and fiction in a panel discussion from the Brisbane Writers Festival.
How to craft a killer beginning, ending, and character
December 22, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBAuthors Balli Kaur Jaswal, Markus Zusak and Amy Sackville compare notes on the writing process.
A Booker shortlist special
December 15, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBSalman Rushdie, Elif Shafak, and Lucy Ellman join the party.
Debut writers series: Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard
December 12, 2019 03:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBA rough and raw account of three teenage boys' struggle with their sexuality and the pervasive homophobia in their regional town.
The Great Debate — is a writer's only responsibility to their art?
December 08, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 50 MBWilliam Faulkner thought so. Katherine Colette, Robert Lukins, and Jock Serong face Wayne Macauley, Melanie Cheng, and Angela Savage to decide.
From one poet to another
December 01, 2019 23:05 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBPeter Goldsworthy remembers his friend Clive James, and Paul Kelly discusses (and sings) his anthology of his favourite poems.
Vale Clive James
November 29, 2019 03:30 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBThe writer, critic, and broadcaster spoke in 2015 about his illness and how his writing was flourishing.
On the case with Michael Connelly
November 24, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 50 MBWhen crime fiction is about more than murder: LA author Michael Connelly, and Australian crime writers Sulari Gentill and Robert Gott on their tour in the US.
Zadie Smith writes to make you awake
November 17, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBRacism is not her problem.
Dear Diary, from Helen Garner
November 10, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBShe burned her earlier diaries, and now she's published others in Yellow Notebook.
A game of Pachinko with Min Jin Lee
November 03, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus, Lucy Ellman finishes a sentence in Ducks, Newburyport.
Debut writers series: A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop
October 31, 2019 02:30 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBAfter losing her family home in the Black Saturday bushfires, Alice Bishop was compelled to write about the many ways people were impacted by the event.
Christos Tsiolkas on Christianity
October 27, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 50 MBPlus, Christos joins The Pillars' author Peter Polites on sexuality and class, and Garth Nix's Angel Mage.
Charlotte Wood on getting older
October 20, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 50 MBPlus, Charlotte joins Debra Adelaide to talk about the writing process, and Favel Parrett on There Was Still Love.
Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak
October 13, 2019 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus, love and science in the Nazi era with Heather Morris (The Tattooist of Auschwitz) and Leah Kaminsky (The Hollow Bones) in conversation at Queenscliffe Literary Festival.
Debut writers series: Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui
October 10, 2019 02:30 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBJoey Bui's short story collection features a diverse range of experiences with displacement and exile.
Your Booker Prize 2019 form guide
October 08, 2019 03:30 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBIn this podcast special, Sarah speaks to The Bookshelf's Kate Evans about this year's Booker shortlist.
Elliot Perlman interrogates the pain of work
October 06, 2019 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBPlus, Indonesian poet Norman Erikson Pasaribu and translator Tiffany Tsao, and bestselling "tragic romance" author Paullina Simons.
Heather Rose's burning political fiction
September 30, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBPlus, Lynley Dodd on Hairy Maclary, and how does the film adaptation of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch hold up to the novel?
Ann Weisgarber on kindness and the intimacy of glovemaking
September 23, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus, Max Porter's dark woodland spirit tells a story of England's present and past in Lanny.
Dreams, sleep and nightmares in fiction and writing
September 16, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 50 MBWriters Jasper Fforde, Karen Thompson Walker and Krissy Kneen explore the connection between dreams and fiction in a panel discussion from the Brisbane Writers Festival.
Salman Rushdie plays with Quichotte
September 09, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 50 MBPlus, The Testaments' broken embargo, and Kate Forsyth's Blue Rose.
The late Andrew McGahan on his final novel
September 02, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus: Claire G Coleman explores the Stolen Generations through intergalactic warfare, and Joanne Ramos fictionalises surrogacy in her native Philippines.
Debut writers series: My Father's Shadow by Jannali Jones
August 29, 2019 07:03 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MB18 year-old Kaya is in danger — and she doesn't know who she can trust.
Téa Obreht reveals what camels have to do with Route 66
August 26, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus, Sisonke Msimang and Rebecca Carroll discuss extracts of Toni Morrison's writing, and Lucy Treloar's second novel Wolfe Island.
Why Philippa Gregory doesn't care for kings
August 19, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus, Jane Sullivan revisits her childhood favourites in Storytime, and Tishani Doshi on her poetry and latest novel Small Days and Nights.
Dominic Smith on the birth of silent film
August 12, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBIn The Electric Hotel, Dominic Smith resurrects the history of silent film and delves into the passion of the early innovators.
Melissa Lucashenko wins the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award
August 05, 2019 00:00 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBPlus David Nicholls' latest romance Sweet Sorrow and what happens when we read with Belinda Jack.
Booker winner Howard Jacobson's latest novel about nonagenarian love
July 29, 2019 00:00 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBPlus meet the six Australian authors shortlisted for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award and Slaughterhouse Five turns 50.
50th anniversary of Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather
July 22, 2019 00:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBPlus Michael Robotham's latest crime novel and the Cost of Art series.
Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead's searing new novel
July 15, 2019 00:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus Australian author Tara June Winch and Irish writer Adrian McKinty
Miles Franklin shortlist — A Sand Archive by Gregory Day
July 12, 2019 00:20 - 10 minutes - 12.7 MBGregory Day's nominated novel explores the writer's ongoing fascination with Victoria's Great Ocean Road.
Miles Franklin shortlist — The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
July 12, 2019 00:15 - 10 minutes - 12.7 MBArt historian Noah Glass has been found dead — floating in the pool of his Sydney apartment complex.
Miles Franklin shortlist — The Lebs by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
July 12, 2019 00:10 - 10 minutes - 12.7 MBAs a lover of literary fiction, Bani Adam is unique in the sea of hyper masculinity at his school, Punchbowl Boys High, Western Sydney.
Miles Franklin shortlist — Dyschronia by Jennifer Mills
July 12, 2019 00:05 - 10 minutes - 12.7 MBWhat if you woke up to find that the sea had disappeared?
Miles Franklin shortlist — A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall
July 12, 2019 00:00 - 10 minutes - 12.7 MBPower, exploitation and Australia’s involvement in the 2003 Iraq War.
Miles Franklin shortlist — Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
July 11, 2019 22:55 - 10 minutes - 12.7 MBThe Miles Franklin-shortlisted novel started its life as a project about 'Aboriginal hillbillies'.
Debut writers series: The Nancys by R. W. R. McDonald
July 11, 2019 02:15 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBA murder in a small town is investigated by a determined 11 year-old girl, her uncle, and his boyfriend.
Booker winner Ben Okri on spiders and freedom
July 08, 2019 00:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus we explore the writer's room of Perth based Irish writer Dervla McTiernan.
Ali Smith on the dark side of spring
July 01, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus, Lydia Kiesling, and a rummage through the ACU's historical children's book collection.
Tony Birch on loss, strength, and racist policies of the 1960s
June 24, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus, Armando Lucas Correa on WW2 novel The Daughter's Tale, and Erin Gough and Omar Sakr on queer YA anthology Kindred.
Amitav Ghosh on links between Bengal and Venice
June 17, 2019 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPlus, Geoffrey Chaucer's life re-examined, and Jeannie Baker on collage.
Mark Haddon gets into the weird zone
June 10, 2019 00:05 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBPlus, The Letters of Sylvia Plath and a history of silliness — from Aristophanes to Roald Dahl.