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Published...Or Not
Australian and international authors talk about their books and how they got published or how they self-published. Listeners, writers and readers will also hear about what's going on in our local writing community.
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Irma Gold and Sarah Walker
Irma Gold has written a moving tale 'Shift' set in Kiliptown, South Africa.Sarah Walker’s book is ‘The Water Takes’. The title is unfinished just as...
Leearna Shaw and Michael Winkler
A farmer and a movie star, both trying hard to parent their problem kids and both having their much loved spouses die. What future could there be for...
Victoria Brownlee
In ‘The Writer’s Retreat’, it’s not just fiction that is being written and the closer it becomes to real life is when the suspense just doesn’t happen...
Gordon Thompson and Ian Kemish
Gordon Thompson catapults a young William Shakespeare and many of his characters into the present day in his novel, Kill Will.The trauma of war links...
Abbey Lay and Chris Hammer
Grace wants the cultural emersion of Italy but has to decide if language barriers limit or enhance desire. ‘Slip’ by Abbey Lay could mean a slide for...
Fiona Hardy and Louise Milligan
The loss of a body in Fiona Hardy's latest novel, 'Old Game',' isn't the crime you'd expect in a work of detective fiction but that's not the only sur...
Claire Thomas and Bridie Blake
The resonance of literature and its interconnectedness with geography, the lives or artists and one's own individual journey intermingle in 'On Not Cl...
Lisa Moule
'The Mother of All Calamities' is Lisa Moule's debut novel about the travails of parenting in the modern age. She has reminded us about the joys and...
Emily Webb and Penny Tangey
‘Murder in the Suburbs’ are true crime cases committed by neighbours or even family with often the psychological reason of why they did it, researched...
Michael Brissenden and Fiona Lowe with Sisters in Crime
A drying lake leads to a discovery of a corpse on a cracked shoreline in Michael Brissenden's, ‘Dust’. What follows is a tale of intrigue and deceptio...
Ann Penny and Dr Niraj Lal
An Australian photographer in New York meets a wealthy businessman from LA who has a controlling family and insistent fiancé. Will the necessities of...
James Morrissey, Emma Westwood and Damian O'Donnell
A scout on another planet makes money from plundering the ruins of an alien civilisation but finds himself questioning every choice he has made in Joh...
Murray Middleton
Murray Middleton toys with narrative conventions in his short story anthology, 'U Want It Darker'. These tales of 'artists in despair' speak to the em...
Siang Lu - Ghost Cities
Siang Lu's novel, Ghost Cities, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2025. We thought it timely, as we begin our 2026 season, to revisit his inter...
Kate Mildenhall and Amy Doak
‘The Hiding Place’ is a literary thriller written by Kate Mildenhall.‘What Have They Done to Liza McLean?’ sister Meg needs to get into the school dat...
Kate Mildenhall and Amy Doak
‘The Hiding Place’ is a literary thriller written by Kate Mildenhall.‘What Have They Done to Liza McLean?’ sister Meg needs to get into the school dat...
Indyana Schneider and Sam Guthrie
A remarkable novel about lust, not just for a person but for music and the consequence of choice in Indyana Schneider’s ‘Since The World is Ending’.Sa...
Zana Fraillon and Elise Janes
Zana Fraillon’s verse novel ‘Song of a Thousand Seas’ has an octopus who knows her world looking at humans with intelligence and curiosity. Elise Jane...
Lyn Yeowart and Carla Salmon
Lyn Yeowart has set her book in the not so distance past when unmarried mothers were a social disgrace and sent away to have their babies who were ado...
Garry Disher and Rose Michael
In a continuation of the Hirsch crime series, Constable Hirschhausen finds himself not just contending with the local problems of his isolated South A...
Gabriel Bergmoser and Rachael Johns
High octane action in a high rise building - that's where all the mayhem and murder takes place in Gabriel Bergmoser's latest novel, High Rise.Rachael...
Stuart Wilson and Sofie Laguna
Oliver loves his job as the 113th Assistant Librarian, he knows books can be dangerous but if the wording in one is changed could it impact the stabil...
Robyn Annear and Christian White
‘Shutter City’ has photographs of early Melbourne. They come alive as Robyn Annear guides our eye into the detail and describes it with her insightful...
Simon Plant and Heather Rose
Simon Plant takes us into the intriguing life of George Coppin and his theatrical touring party of Shakespeare specialists who went to Civil War Ameri...
Emma Mugglestone and Katherine Pollock
The Run Club has popularity because of the social media hits following a blossoming relationship, but these two only got together in a pretend situati...
Holly Brunnbauer and Toby Schmitz
Makayla wants to make up for lost time after her divorce but her list of no regrets detailing things yet to be done leads to complications she didn't...
Noel Harcourt and Michael Rowbotham
Noel Harcourt writes about his job for 33 years as one of the zoo keepers at Melbourne Zoo in his memoir ‘For Keeps’.Philomena McCarthy is compromised...
George Ivanoff and Joel McKerrow
George Ivanoff gives us 'Prehistoric Peril' in the latest choose your own adventure where virtual reality, mad scientists and you, as the reader, deci...
Pip Smith
Pip Smith explores the emotional and psychological consequences of the refugee vessel, The Janga, that crashed into Christmas Island in her fictionali...
Monica Raszewski and Michelle Kalus
Monica Raszewski's, 'Crimson Light, Polished Wood', explores the intersecting lives of three generations of women and their connection over time.The l...
Rhett Davis and Jo Dabrowski
Our social contract with the world, our very purpose in the digital age is brought into question in the novel, 'Arborescence', by Rhett Davis Martha h...
Toni Jordan and A. L. Booth
Toni Jordan’s book ‘Ternderfoot’ is a coming of age story set in the 70’s.A. L. Booth’s crime novel, ’Death at Booroomba’ includes a mysterious inheri...
Nick Croydon, Luke Johnson and Anne Vines
If you had the power to change history would you dare? ‘The Turing Protocol’ by Nick Croydon.'King Tide' is Luke Johnson's debut novel set in a small...
Matt Rogers and Jayne Tuttle
Matt Rogers takes us on a nhilistic journey of murder and corruption with equal parts of philosophy and asceticism in his novel, 'The Forsaken'.Jayne...
Dmetri Kakmi and Mark Brandi
Dmetri Kakmi's novel, The Woman In the Well, blends the spiritualism associated with numerous faiths; Christianity, Islam and indigenous belief.Not ev...
Amie Kaufman and Madeleine Watts
Amie Kaufman's, 'Lady's Knight' features the tournament of the dragon slayers and is a sapphic fairytale.A couple grapple with the breakdown of their...
Jodi McAlister and Lucy Nelson
You have to be smart to be in academia and so is this romance fiction by Jodi McAlister. 'An Academic Affair' has characters and situations which are...
Katherine Biber and Samantha Byres
Lawyers and politicians were involved with both Federation and the trial and hanging of Jimmy Governor in the historical true crime novel of ‘The Last...
Belinda Lyons-Lee and Shokoofeh Azar's book
The intriguing elements of seances and criminal conduct behind the writing of Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde come to the fore as Belinda Lyons-Lee explores the...
Thomas Vowles and Elle McFadzean
Thomas Vowles' novel, 'Our New Gods' is a psychological thriller where sinsiter sexuality and murder coincide amongst the queer scene of Melbourne.Ell...