Good Reading Podcast
Book talk and author interviews to help you discover your next favourite read.
Episode 390
Luke Taylor on Peter Marralwanga, Painter of the Djang of Western Arnhem Land
Peter Marralwanga (1916–1987) was a leading figure in one of the great art practices of the world. He grew up in ...
Episode 389
Jane Messer on her compelling memoir, ‘Raven Mother: War, family and inheritance’
In Raven Mother, Jane Messer weaves together her Jewish family’s tragic story – stretching back and forth between ...
Episode 388
Theresa Miller on stepping up to the microphone and making an impact in ‘Speak Up’
Theresa Miller has spent decades working as a journalist and now media trainer, coaching people across all ...
Episode 387
Vikki Petraitis on a forty-year-old true crime mystery in, ‘The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron’
In 1986 on Phillip Island, a young woman called Beth Barnard was savagely murdered and her boyfriend’s wife, ...
Episode 386
Debra Dank on family, culture, connection and the power of memory in ‘Ankami’
Debra Dank had long been desperate to paint a fuller picture of her family, to add flesh to the name-bones and the ...
Episode 385
Aaron Tait on his journey from war to peace in ‘Far Horizons’
As a 17-year-old officer Aaron Tait was deployed to a war in the Middle East. Far Horizons is the story of what ...
Episode 384
Vicki Bennett on her story of love, war, and intergenerational healing, ‘The Letters’
When rebellious Ruby is bequeathed her late grandfather’s personal letters, she is pulled from peacetime 1973 ...
Episode 383
Chris Blake on his gripping crime thriller set on New Zealand’s wild west coast, ‘Softly Calls the Devil’
Things are going well for Matt Buchanan. After some hard times, life is peaceful as sole-charge constable for the ...
Episode 382
Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the top down, in ‘Looking From the North’
When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in the 1960s, ...
Episode 381
Amra Pajalic on her thrilling Balkan war murder mystery, ‘Time Kneels Between Mountains’
Overnight, Seka Torlak’s life as a regular teenager is upended as Srebrenica, her once peaceful town, falls under ...
Episode 380
Joanna Nell on her heart-warming story celebrating life and love in, ‘The Funeral Crashers’
Retired academic Martin Pottinger's romantic aspirations for the delectable head of his former university's ...
Episode 379
Suzanne Leal on her HNSA prize-winning book for young readers, ‘The Year We Escaped’
Europe, 1940. With war on their doorstep, German classmates Klara and Rachel, and French brothers Lucien and Paul, ...
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