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Michael Connelly’s Life of Crime
Crime fiction king Michael Connelly discusses the highlights of his illustrious career and the characters who have populated the pages of his cult cl…
2 years ago
Coffee and Headlines with Read This
How do you support writers if the market for their books is being steadily destroyed?
As bookshops close their doors in record numbers and writers se…
2 years ago
Jake Adelstein: Tokyo Noir
Jake Adelstein has spent decades reporting on Japanese organised crime and is the only American journalist to be admitted to the insular Tokyo Metrop…
2 years, 1 month ago
Samantha Shannon on The Roots of Chaos series
At 21, Samantha Shannon was hailed as the next big thing in genre fiction for her bestselling dystopian debut, The Bone Season.
Samantha’s latest que…
2 years, 1 month ago
Suzie Miller: Prima Facie
[Content warning: Sexual assault]
Suzie Miller’s disturbingly prescient play, Prima Facie, dramatises the price sexual assault victims pay for speaki…
2 years, 1 month ago
Nick Bryant: America's Unending Conflict With Itself
What is driving American decline, and what does it mean for the world?
Long-time foreign correspondent Nick Bryant’s most recent posting took him to …
2 years, 1 month ago
Celeste Ng: Our Missing Hearts
Banning books, waving flags and persecuting racial minorities. Sound familiar?
After New York Times–bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere – which…
2 years, 1 month ago
Creativity, Joy, Grace
Find sanctuary in this uplifting celebration of creativity, chaired by Michaela Kalowski.
Award-winning journalist Julia Baird follows her internatio…
2 years, 1 month ago
Charlotte Wood: Stone Yard Devotional
Can a person truly be good? What is forgiveness? Is losing hope a moral failure? And is the business of grief ever really finished?
These questions p…
2 years, 1 month ago
Queer Love and Longing
Love is indeed a many splendoured thing in the work of K Patrick and Christos Tsiolkas, who know firsthand the pleasures of writing queer love storie…
2 years, 1 month ago