Podcast Episodes

Lily King: Heart the Lover

After her New York Times bestseller, Writers & Lovers, Lily King returns to themes of love, desire, forgiveness and loss in Heart the Lover.    

Our n…

2 days, 4 hours ago

Trent Dalton: Gravity Let Me Go

After being crowned the number one book of the 21st century by ABC Radio National, Australian literary sensation Trent Dalton’s newest book mixes gru…

1 week, 1 day ago

Grand Ambition: Paul Keating and James Curran in Conversation

There used to be a time when political leaders didn’t limit themselves to an election cycle.

In his latest book, Grand Ambition, international affairs…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Tayari Jones: Kin

Two motherless girls begin their lives in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, but they take paths that are worlds apart.

Tayari Jones, author of An American Marr…

3 weeks ago

Susan Choi: Flashlight

Louisa goes for a walk along the beach with her father, but only she returns.

The new novel from Susan Choi, multi-award-winning writer including the…

4 weeks, 1 day ago

Maria Reva: Endling

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, Endling is an inventive, bold and original debut which follows three angry women and one endangered snail on a …

1 month ago

An Evening with Patrick Radden Keefe

His deeply researched and intricately crafted non-fiction has captivated the world.

Award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and bestselling auth…

1 month, 1 week ago

Yann Martel: Son of Nobody

The story of the Trojan War, like so many wars real and imagined, is a story most often told by the victors, the princes and the powerful.

In this ne…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Amitav Ghosh in Conversation

An incomparable storyteller, lucid analyst and eloquent polemicist, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh’s rich body of fiction and non-fiction work has sha…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Florence Knapp: The Names

[Content warning: Family violence]

Instant bestseller and “best debut novel in years” (The Sunday Times) starts in a literal and metaphorical storm.

2 months ago