Booksplus - Full Program Podcast
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 208:32:43
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Synopsis
BooksPlus is the one-stop destination for bibliophiles, a digest of the week’s best interviews about books and writing across RN.
Episodes
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Podcast Extra: Nicholas Shakespeare
31/08/2020 Duration: 29minBiographer, critic and novelist Nicholas Shakespeare on his latest novel (The Sandpit) and the books and writers that shaped him
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A tricky nemesis or two, the past, and a damp holiday camp
28/08/2020 Duration: 56minOn Jock Serong's The Burning Island, Sarah Moss's Summerwater and Ian McGuire's The Abstainer with writers Aoife Clifford and Emily Maguire
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Poisonous plants, talking rabbits, and a roadtrip of tears
21/08/2020 Duration: 54minMichaela Kalowski and Kate Evans read Sam Coley’s State Highway One, Jasper Fforde’s The Constant Rabbit and Rebecca Dinerstein Knight’s Hex with writers Christopher Raja and Karina Kilmore
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Thrillers, wars and labyrinths spiral through fiction
14/08/2020 Duration: 53minOn Nicholas Shakespeare's The Sandpit, Nguyẽ̂n Phan Qué̂ Mai's The Mountains Sing and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth
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Family secrets and the approach of General Winter in three new Australian novels
07/08/2020 Duration: 54minImbi Neeme's The Spill, Victoria Hannan's Kokomo and Steven Conte's The Tolstoy Estate with writers Gina Inverarity and Roger Pulvers
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The Book Club No 4: Tara June Winch's The Yield and Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career
31/07/2020 Duration: 54minThe winner of this year's Miles Franklin's Literary Award, Tara June Winch's The Yield; and the debut novel of the benefactor of the Award, Miles Franklin' 1901 novel My Brilliant Career
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Creatures, sisters and relationships in fiction
24/07/2020 Duration: 54minOn Samanta Schweblin's Little Eyes, Daisy Johnson's Sisters and Luke Horton's The Fogging with reviewers Jessie Tu (A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing) and Mark Sutton
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A note in a forest, a train on fire, a gothic mood
17/07/2020 Duration: 54minOn Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands, Megha Majumdar's A Burning and Catherine Noske on the Australian gothic tradition
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History, fiction and plastic surgery
10/07/2020 Duration: 56minOn Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves, David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue and Frances Cha’s If I Had Your Face
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The Book Club No 3: Crime, thrillers, and Lawrence Wright’s The End of October
03/07/2020 Duration: 01h27sReading Lawrence Wright’s pandemic thriller The End of October with crime writers Candice Fox and Ben Hobson
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Pod Extra: Poetry and Music
01/07/2020 Duration: 53minCrank up the poetry find a chair for your music (and how ageing is dealt with in dystopian fiction).
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The discomfort of grief and memory
26/06/2020 Duration: 53minMarieke Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening, Sreedhevi Iyer’s The Tiniest House of Time and Me Myshelf and I with Kawai Strong Washburn.
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Reading love and tragedy in Jamaica, Trinidad and India
19/06/2020 Duration: 57minOn Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Patsy, Ingrid Persaud’s Love after Love and Sujata Massey’s A Murder at Malabar Hill
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Race, apocalypse and robots
12/06/2020 Duration: 54minOn Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, Patrick Allington’s Rise and Shine and Martha Wells’ Network Effect (A Murderbot novel). Eating emotions in the books we read
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The Book Club No 2: Joan London’s The Golden Age & Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus
05/06/2020 Duration: 58minAustralian fiction discussed with academic and critic Bernadette Brennan and novelist Robert Lukins, on Joan London’s The Golden Age & Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus
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A bird made of rain, a girl made of plantain, a family made of loss
29/05/2020 Duration: 01h02minOn Robbie Arnott's The Rain Heron, Zalika Reid-Benta's Frying Plantain and Maike Wetzel's Elly.
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What If, said the writer, What If?
22/05/2020 Duration: 53minOn Curtis Sittenfeld's Rodham, Anne Tyler's Redhead by the Side of the Road, and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times
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Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)
15/05/2020 Duration: 59minOn Catherine Noske's The Salt Madonna, Jennifer Rosner's The Yellow Bird Sings, Suzanne Leal's The Deceptions, Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs
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A fossilised penguin walked into a bar (and other stories)
08/05/2020 Duration: 01h02minReading and reviewing Jeet Thayil's Low, Chris Flynn's Mammoth and Sue Monk Kidd's The Book of Longings.
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The Book Club No 1: Come on, join our Book Club
01/05/2020 Duration: 53minOn the first week of every month, we're going to talk books together. To begin: reading in isolation with guests Ailsa Piper and Tom Wright