Jul 21, 2021
A special episode: Anna brings you some recommendations for comfort reading, as Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide are in lockdown.
Books discussed:
A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby
If I Had Your Face by...
Jul 11, 2021
Anna and Amanda discuss the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction won by Hilary Mantel for The Mirror and the Light and the longlist for the Gordon Burn Prize.
Our book of the week is Still Life by Sarah Winman. Winman's previous novel Tin Man was a sensation and her fans will love Still Life, her latest...
Jul 1, 2021
Anna and Annie discuss the Miles Franklin shortlist.
Our book of the week is Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao translated by Mike Fu. This travel memoir has sold millions of copies in China and Taiwan since the 1970s and is now available for the first time in English translation. Sanmao was an iconic writer,...
Jun 22, 2021
Happy Pride Month!
Anna and Annie discuss some favourite LGBTQIA+ books that we have read recently:
Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Dreamland by Rosa Rankin Gee
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Detransition, Baby by...
Jun 9, 2021
Anna and Annie discuss the Booker International Prize winner and the Miles Franklin Award Longlist.
We reveal our top crime book recommendations:
- Girl, 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke
- Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham
- Northern Spy by Flynn Berry
- The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Leznevich
- Fog by Kaja...