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Susan Wyndham - Elizabeth Harrower: The woman in the watch tower
The revealing biography of a leading and enigmatic Australian novelist. Australian novelist Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense, original and highly regarded psychological fiction of…
Tracy Holmes - Eye of the Dragonfly
In both her life and work, Holmes has consistently broken barriers. The first female presenter of the ABC’s flagship sports programme, Grandstand, she has pioneered coverage of and by women in sport.…
Toni Jordan - Tenderfoot
Brisbane, 1975: Andie Tanner's world is small but whole. Her mum is complicated, but she adores her dad and the kennel of racing greyhounds that live under their house. Andie is a serious girl with…
Jacqueline Kent - Inconvenient Women
Jacqueline traces the social and political issues that inspired Australian radical women writers and their desire to change the world. Australia's crusaders for women's voting rights and the radical…
Stuart Coupe - Saffron Incorporated: The first King of the Cross and fifty years of sex, murder, music and mayhem
In SAFFRON INCORPORATED, music industry legend Stuart Coupe shows how showbusiness and the underworld are intrinsically linked - from nightclub fires, corrupt cops, cocaine, smack, illegal gambling,…
Michael Wesley - Blind Spot: Southeast Asia and Australia’s Future
Australia has forgotten what keeps it safe. So argues Michael Wesley in this sharp and compelling essay about our place in the world. His previous books include There Goes the Neighbourhood:…
Simon Chapman AO - Better to be looked over, than overlooked
One of Australia’s most influential public health thinkers, Emeritus Professor Simon Chapman AO has released a new book that reflects on a career spent reshaping how Australians understand health and…
Gretchen Shirm - Out of the Woods
In the year 2000, an Australian woman travels to The Hague to work as the secretary for an Australian judge. There, she sits through the trial of a former military man who has been charged with war…
Vanessa Berry - Calendar
Calendar is an essay collection in the form of a daybook, written in real-time over a year. The book takes inspiration from writers who use experiments and constraints, such as Georges Perec/Oulipo…
Charlotte Grieve - A Duty to Warn
***WARNING: Contains some graphic medical content ***It all started when a daughter asked her father 'Are there any risks?'.Investigative journalist Charlotte Grieve had a very personal reason to be…
Evelyn Araluen - The Rot
The Rot is a recalcitrant study of the decaying romances, expired hopes and abject injustices of the world. A liturgy for girlhood in the dying days of late-stage capitalism, these poems expose…
James Bradley - Landfall
Above an already swamped Sydney, a disastrous weather system looms. The city is not repaired from one storm before the next hits. There is enormous distrust of the civil service, including police.…
S2E14 Ann Curthoys - The Last Tour
Paul Robeson was once the most famous African American in the world. Not only was he a renowned singer and actor with a stunning bass baritone voice, he was also a former professional athlete, lawyer…
S2E16 Judith Brett - The Fearless Beatrice Faust
Beatrice Faust was the transformative feminist activist, writer and intellectual who founded the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Melbourne in 1972. She campaigned for abortion law reform, and thought,…
S2E13 Linda Jaivin - Bombard the Headquarters!
In 1966, with the words ‘Bombard the Headquarters!’ Mao Zedong unleashed the full, violent force of a movement that he called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. By the time he died ten years…
S2E12 Lisa Portolan - 10 Ways to Find Love and How to Keep It
We’re all looking for love, but although it’s been years since I was lucky enough to find the love of my life, the world of online dating seems fraught with obstacles, uncertainties and…
S2E12 Hugh White - Hard New World: Our Post-American Future
“The Canberra establishment is shocked by any suggestion that we should walk away from the ANZUS commitments. They think we can and must depend on America more than ever in today’s hard new world.…
S2E11 Graeme Turner - Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good
Most of us would agree that a strong higher education system is crucial for a functioning democracy and economic prosperity. However, a 2024 review found the system broken and in urgent need of…
S2E10 Jenny Macklin - Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens
Is big policy reform still possible? Does Australia have the political will to tackle generational issues such as climate change, the housing crisis, rising inequality and Closing the Gap? And how…
S2E9 Nathan Dunne - When Nothing Feels Real
Nathan Dunne was living the life of his dreams in London until, one evening, he jumped into a lake for a swim. When he emerged, his identity was simply gone. He felt completely lost and in acute,…
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