Books On The Go

Anna and Geoff discuss the cancellation of Adelaide Writers’ Week 2026 amid the controversy after the Adelaide Festival Board disinvited Palestinian-Australian writer Dr Randa Abdel-Fatteh.  Among the authors who withdrew from Writers’ Week was Richard Flanagan, who wrote this article (sorry for the paywall)....

It’s our best books of the year episode!

 

Anna, Amanda and Annie reveal our favourite reads of 2025:

 

Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

The Time of the Child by Niall Williams

The Granddaughter by Bernhard Schlink translated by Charlotte Collins

A Guardian and a Thief...

Anna and Geoff discuss their reaction to the 2025 Booker Prize winner, FLESH by David Szalay, and the winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction, Australian author Helen Garner for her collection of diaries HOW TO END A STORY.

 

Our book of the week is CREATION LAKE by Rachel Kushner. Her follow-up novel...

Anna and Geoff discuss their Booker Prize winner predictions. We haven't read enough of the shortlist to know who will win, but Geoff is tipping THE LAND IN WINTER (a DNF for Anna).

 

Our book of the week is FLASHLIGHT by Susan Choi. This is Choi’s follow-up novel after winning the National Book Award for TRUST...

Annie was lucky enough to catch Bri Lee on her book tour for her second novel, Seed. Set in Antarctica, Seed follows two scientists, Mitch and Frances, as they spend a month at the seed vault that they have been creating and protecting. But as strange things keep happening to the facility, culminating in...