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Sunday 10 Dec 2017
The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear was voted Britain's favourite poem in 2014. British author Jenny Uglow speaks about her new biography of the poet and artist, Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense.
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1947- a pivotal year in modern history
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It's snowing outside, and three people are telling each other their life stories in Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende's latest novel In the Midst of Winter.
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Guatemalan Magic Realism from 1949. Ground breaking, influential, surreal.
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Why Portable Curiosities is Ann Jones' best read of the year
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American writer Joy Williams is often described as a 'writer's writer' or even 'a writers' writer's writer'. Choose your apostrophes as you will!
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Sunday 3 Dec 2017
The Irish famine of the 1840s was almost unbearably awful. It devastated the country and lead to mass migration and oh so many deaths. How then, to write a novel that’s both grim and beautiful?
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Melbourne writer A. S. Patric sets sail in his new novel, taking us on an eerie journey aboard a luxurious passenger liner on New Year's Eve.
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What does it mean when a writer turns a lifetime of skill and research inward, to her own life and family history?
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Sunday 26 Nov 2017
Peter Carey finally tackles the novel he spent his 'whole life not knowing how to write'.
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It’s 25 years since the story of Josie Alibrandi in her last year at high school hit the bookshelves in the cult novel Looking for Alibrandi. We revisit the book with the author Melina Marchetta and some new and old fans.
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The golden sandstone of Sydney, reimagined in the early days of white settlement.
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What works does Michael Robotham reach for on his Top Shelf?
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Sunday 19 Nov 2017
Australian novelist Alex Miller's new novel The Passage of Love is the author's own story cast in the mould of fiction
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A novel that reveals laundries as places of intimacy, storytelling and hardwork.
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US author Jesmyn Ward's latest novel Sing, Unburied, Sing, winner of the 2017 US National Book Award for Fiction, explores the legacy of slavery through a contemporary American family in the south.
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A novel of the sea, politics, ideas and an ambitious if clumsy teaching machine.
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Sunday 12 Nov 2017
La Belle Sauvage is the first in a new 'Book of Dust' series from English writer Philip Pullman. It enters the world of His Dark Materials. A review discussion.
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Crime fiction that is explicitly about the past or imbedded in the past.
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Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov was, briefly, Stalin’s favourite novelist: now there's a precarious position to hold.
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American writer Jeffrey Eugenides is back with a new collection of short stories, Fresh Complaint, which takes the reader deep into the mind of the great writer.
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Sunday 5 Nov 2017
If America had another civil war, what would be its spark? Fossil fuels and the right to own a muscle car, perhaps?
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American writer Amy Tan's new memoir is a glorious maze of letters, journal entries, and reflections through which she describes her journey as a daughter and as a writer.
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In Maybe, 14 year old Felix comes to Australia as a refugee at the close of World War Two.
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A female convict is lost in the Tasmanian landscape. She is found by a gang of bushrangers. To survive, she must go with them. This is the plot of Bridget Crack, the debut novel by Australian writer Rachel Leary.
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Sunday 29 Oct 2017
Remember the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, that swept all other books before it a few years ago? Jennifer Egan’s back, and her new novel Manhattan Beach travels to entirely different places and times.
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A conversation with British American writer Tracy Chevalier about her recent book New Boy, a retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello.
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In Jessica Townsend's new fantasy series for 8-12 year olds (and anyone), Morrigan Crow lives in a republic fuelled by magic. There is that small problem of being chased by the Hunt of Smoke and Shadows though . . .
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