Nov 13, 2023
Anna and Annie discuss authors' concerns about Spotify streaming books and highlights from the 2024 Adelaide Writers Week lineup.
Our book of the week is Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren translated by Agnes Broomé. Sandgren has been described as "Sweden's Sally Rooney" (The Times). Collected Works is a...
Oct 31, 2023
Special guest Shawn Mooney of Shawn the Book Maniac joins Anna for Book Club!
We discuss TRUE BIZ by Sara Nović and Y/N by Esther Yi. These books have taken us down rabbit holes of deaf culture (True Biz) and super fandom (Y/N). Two interesting and thought-provoking reads!
Shawn recommends the interview with Esther Yi...
Oct 9, 2023
Anna and Annie discuss the 2023 Booker Prize Shortlist and the authors taking action over the generative AI use of their work.
Our book of the week is WIFEDOM: MRS ORWELL'S INVISIBLE LIFE by Anna Funder. An innovative biography of Eileen Orwell by the Miles Franklin and Samuel Johnson prize winner, it has been...
Sep 29, 2023
Anna and Amanda discuss the Nero Book Awards which will commence in 2024.
Our book of the week is CHAI TIME AT CINNAMON GARDENS by Shankari Chandran. A layered story about a nursing home in Sydney whose residents have traumatic memories of the civil war in Sri Lanka, this won the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary...
Sep 18, 2023
A special episode: Anna chats with Shawn Mooney of Shawn the Book Maniac.
We recommend three books and each choose one to read for our next episode: the Anna and Shawn book club!
Books discussed:
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Y/N by Esther Yi
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr