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Best podcasts about claire nichols

Latest podcast episodes about claire nichols

Adelaide Writers' Week
AWW25: Espionage, Seduction and Intrigue - Rachel Kushner

Adelaide Writers' Week

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 58:14


With Claire Nichols.Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize-shortlisted author, talks to Claire Nichols about her latest novel, Creation Lake – variously acclaimed by critics as Slow Horses meets Killing Eve, a Le Carréan Kill Bill and a dazzling reinvention of the spy novel.Event details:Mon 03 Mar, 12:00pm | East Stage

Adelaide Writers' Week
AWW24: Edenglassie - Melissa Lucashenko

Adelaide Writers' Week

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2024 55:56


With Claire Nichols | Miles Franklin winner Melissa Lucashenko joins The Book Show's Claire Nichols for a discussion about her new novel, Edenglassie, and white Australia's amnesia regarding our collective history. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 2:30pm

Adelaide Writers' Week
AWW24: The Wren, The Wren - Anne Enright

Adelaide Writers' Week

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2024 58:51


With Claire Nichols | Anne Enright's eighth novel is a brilliant report on one unhappy family; an intergenerational tale framed by the self-aggrandising legacy of the poet-father. Join the author in conversation with Claire Nichols. Event details: Sun 03 Mar, 1:15pm

Adelaide Writers' Week
AWW24: Keeping in Touch - Anjali Joseph

Adelaide Writers' Week

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2024 53:20


With Claire Nichols | Anjali Joseph's fourth novel, Keeping in Touch, involves magical lightbulbs, contemporary art and toxic bachelors. Joseph explores the challenges of writing a modern love story with Claire Nichols. Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 9:30am

Preparing for Launch
#20 - Meteorites, the Moon and Magnetism, Dr Claire Nichols

Preparing for Launch

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2023 34:54


Dr Claire Nichols is a planetary geologist at the University of Oxford. Her research interests centre around Earth's magnetic field, the Lunar Dynamo and meteorite magnetism. Duiring our chat, we discuss: Is a magnetic field necessary for life on Earth? what it's like working with Apollo samples and astronauts, deciding between industry or academia and much, much more. Claire Nichols on Twitter: @TinySpaceMagnet Claire Nichols' Website: https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/people/claire-nichols/ UKSEDS https://ukseds.org/ Social media: Instagram Twitter LinkedIn YouTube Facebook For more resources on careers in space: https://spacecareers.uk/ Isaac on Twitter: @isaaccaletrio Intro and outro tracks: "Fanfare for Space" and "Discovery Hit" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ News segment background music from https://www.FesliyanStudios.com

The First Time
S5 Ep187: Kate and Katherine Catch Up Plus FEATURED BOOK My Sweet Guillotine by Jayne Tuttle

The First Time

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2022 62:16


Kate is about to head off to NZ for a long awaited residency (via Varuna the Writers House) and Katherine is making comics -- check out her 100 day challenge via Insta). The hosts talk data, creativity and what the best selling book of all time is (it might surprise you!). Lots of mentions this ep, including:  'Writing and the Fluidity of Creative Practice', article in Kill Your Darlings  The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavich  Out of Breath by Anna Snoekstra  Emily St John Mandel on Sea of Tranquility on both Ezra Klein show (podcast)  and with Claire Nichols on The Bookshow  Writing NSW YouTube  The Palace Papers by Tina Brown  Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout Reasons Not to Worry by Brigid Delaney The Settlement by Jock Serrong  Leaf Bookshop YouTube book reviews  This episode our featured book segment is brought to you by Hardie Grant and we are delighted to be talking to Jayne Tuttle about her second work of literary auto-fiction MY SWEET GUILLOTINE (2022).  Jayne Tuttle's first book was Paris or Die (2019). Paris or Die was developed into a solo theatre show with director John Bolton and performed in 2021 and 2022 in a variety of venues including La Mama in Melbourne.  Jayne graduated from the Lecoq theatre school in 2006 and went on to live and work in France as an actor, voice-over artist, playwright, translator and bilingual copywriter. Jayne was awarded the Eric Dark Flagship Fellowship in 2021 from the Varuna Writer's House. Check out show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). Don't forget you can support us and the making of Season Five via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us!

The Book Show
'I guess I'm a weirdo' — Benjamin Myers on crop circles and being a loner

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2022 54:05


British author Benjamin Myers says he likes to be on the margins as a writer and his latest novel, The Perfect Golden Circle, is about the crop circles that appeared in 1989 in the English countryside and explores the type of people who created them. Also Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell explain their genre-bending book, Mothertongues and Noongar author, Claire G Coleman's mysterious and unsettling book, Enclave, set in a walled Australian city.

RN Arts - ABC RN
'I guess I'm a weirdo' — Benjamin Myers on crop circles and being a loner

RN Arts - ABC RN

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2022 54:05


British author Benjamin Myers says he likes to be on the margins as a writer and his latest novel, The Perfect Golden Circle, is about the crop circles that appeared in 1989 in the English countryside and explores the type of people who created them. Also Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell explain their genre-bending book, Mothertongues and Noongar author, Claire G Coleman's mysterious and unsettling book, Enclave, set in a walled Australian city.

The Book Show
Anita Heiss, Tony Birch and SJ Norman grapple with the past

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2022 53:43


For NAIDOC Week, three Aboriginal writers who are grappling with the past: Anita Heiss takes the 1852 Gundagai flood as the starting point for her novel Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, Tony Birch explores his family history in Dark as Last Night and SJ Norman's, Permafrost, a collection of haunted short stories.

RN Arts - ABC RN
Anita Heiss, Tony Birch and SJ Norman grapple with the past

RN Arts - ABC RN

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2022 53:43


For NAIDOC Week, three Aboriginal writers who are grappling with the past: Anita Heiss takes the 1852 Gundagai flood as the starting point for her novel Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, Tony Birch explores his family history in Dark as Last Night and SJ Norman's, Permafrost, a collection of haunted short stories.

The Book Show
'They're about real things' — Madeline Miller on the popularity of Greek myths

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2022 54:03


American author Madeline Miller has found a new audience for her prize winning novel Circe on #BookTok and now she has a new offering based on Greek mythology called Galatea. Also, Lauren Chater's real life inspiration for her third historical novel, The Winter Dress and Carrie Cox asks whether relationships are really meant to go the distance in her latest novel, So Many Beats of the Heart.

RN Arts - ABC RN
'They're about real things' — Madeline Miller on the popularity of Greek myths

RN Arts - ABC RN

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2022 54:03


American author Madeline Miller has found a new audience for her prize winning novel Circe on #BookTok and now she has a new offering based on Greek mythology called Galatea. Also, Lauren Chater's real life inspiration for her third historical novel, The Winter Dress and Carrie Cox asks whether relationships are really meant to go the distance in her latest novel, So Many Beats of the Heart.

The Book Show
'I got obsessed with horses' — Geraldine Brooks on her novel Horse

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 54:05


Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brookes says she "didn't grow up as a horse obsessed girl" but rather her interest in horses was a result of a midlife crisis which led her to the history of a famous American thoroughbred that was the inspiration for her latest novel, simply called Horse. Also, John Purcell talks about his second official novel, The Lessons, and reveals his brief career writing erotica and Karen Manton explains the inspiration for her evocative novel, The Curlew's Eye, set in remote Northern Territory.

RN Arts - ABC RN
'I got obsessed with horses' — Geraldine Brooks on her novel Horse

RN Arts - ABC RN

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 54:05


Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brookes says she "didn't grow up as a horse obsessed girl" but rather her interest in horses was a result of a midlife crisis which led her to the history of a famous American thoroughbred that was the inspiration for her latest novel, simply called Horse. Also, John Purcell talks about his second official novel, The Lessons, and reveals his brief career writing erotica and Karen Manton explains the inspiration for her evocative novel, The Curlew's Eye, set in remote Northern Territory.

The Book Show
Meg Mason's surprise success with Sorrow and Bliss

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2022 54:06


Meg Mason thought her second novel, Sorrow and Bliss wouldn't be published, it was and is now shortlisted for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction, which will be announced this week. Also Australian writer Ennis Ćehić on his playful collection, Sadvertising, and American writer Leila Motley's debut novel, Nightcrawling, which she wrote at just 17.

The Book Show
'I wish I'd had more resolution of character' — Booker winner Damon Galgut on privilege and power

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2022 54:04


Booker-winning writer Damon Galgut wasn't always aware of his privilege, growing up as a white man in South Africa. Instead, he describes a ‘slow-shifting of consciousness', that culminated in The Promise, a book he calls ‘my most South African novel'. Also, The Rosie Project author, Graeme Simsion, gives a tour of his writing space and Hilde Hinton on her second novel, A Solitary Walk on the Moon.

The Book Show
Lessons in life, mortality and love from Julian Barnes

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022 54:06


British Booker winner Julian Barnes's latest novel, Elizabeth Finch, is about a life-changing teacher and he tells the audience at the Sydney Writers Festival that "you become a writer by not being the child of a writer".

The Book Show
Moon colonies and the 'Mandelverse' with Emily St John Mandel

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2022 54:05


Canadian author, Emily St John Mandel, says the pandemic changed her as a writer. Her latest, Sea of Tranquility, was written during lockdown in New York and while it's a standalone novel, also features links to her previous books, Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel. Also, Goan-Anglo-Indian Australian writer Michelle Cahill's novel, Daisy and Woolf, is a literary homage and post-colonial critique of Virginia Woolf's classic Mrs Dalloway.

The Book Show
Family troubles with Steve Toltz, Audrey Magee and Toni Jordan

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2022 54:06


Here Goes Nothing is the last in what Steve Toltz calls his trilogy of fear which began with A Fraction of the Whole. This latest book is narrated by a ghost who discovers there is an afterlife hierarchy and he is at the bottom. Also, Irish writer Audrey Magee on her second novel The Colony which is colonisation in microcosm and Toni Jordan's sixth novel, Dinner with the Schnabels, billed as a family dramedy.

The Book Show
Queer stories with Douglas Stuart, Indyana Schneider and Omar Sakr

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2022 54:07


Booker winner Douglas Stuart's second novel, Young Mungo, is again set in gritty working class Glasgow, but also explores blossoming queer love. And, two debut novels also exploring queer identity with Indyana Schneider's 28 Questions and Omar Sakr's Son of Sin.

The Book Show
Mum's the word with Dawn French, Douglas Stuart, Anne Enright, Alice Pung and more

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2022 53:56


We meet some of the most remarkable mothers in recent fiction, with authors including Dawn French, Douglas Stuart, Anne Enright, Lisa Taddeo, Larissa Behrendt and Alice Pung. These literary mums can be loving, neglectful and sometimes cruel – and they often reveal something about the author's own relationship with their mother or children. Other featured authors include George Haddad, Craig Sherborne, Lydia Kiesling and Kate Mildenhall.

The Book Show
Jennifer Down and Jonathan Franzen relive the 1970s

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2022 53:42


Jennifer Down doesn't turn away from uncomfortable truths in her Stella Prize shortlisted novel, Bodies of Light, about the systemic failures of the residential and foster care systems in the 70s and 80s. Also, we revisit our interview with Jonathan Franzen who talks about faith and family, which are two themes in his latest book, Crossroads.

The Book Show
Hannah Kent and Michelle Johnston unearth the past

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2022 54:06


Hannah Kent reflects on her time as an exchange student in Iceland and how it allowed her to pursue writing, and Michelle Johnston tells Claire Nichols about her novel, Dustfall, for the international literary event called Literature Live Around the World which was hosted by the Bergen International Literary Festival in Norway.

The Book Show
Jennifer Egan's Goon Squad follow-up

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 53:56


Pulitzer-prize winner, Jennifer Egan, is "interested in the ways technology interacts with our psychologies". Her new novel, The Candy House, plays with a deliciously dangerous idea: what if you could externalise your memory? And two books set in small town Australia: Mandy Beaumont's The Furies and Yumna Kassab's provocatively titled Australiana.

The Book Show
Kári Gíslason gives new life to an old Icelandic saga

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2022 54:06


The Icelandic sagas have long been a source of fascination for Kári Gíslason and his latest novel, The Sorrow Stone, gives new life to an old Icelandic saga. Also disability advocate and writer Liel Bridgford explores disability representation in fiction with Kay Kerr and Jessica Walton, and Robert Lukins on his second novel Loveland set in Nebraska about two women who've experienced controlling marriages and asks whether trauma is inherited.

The Book Show
Mythology and Marlon James — Moon Witch, Spider King

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2022 54:03


For his latest novel, Moon Witch, Spider King, Marlon James says "I was trying to connect with my own mythological history as a black man in an African diaspora, in a former British colony". Also, friendship in fiction with Susan Johnson, Juhea Kim and Paige Clark, and Perth writer David Whish-Wilson's writing space.

The Book Show
Recovery and 'ridey men' — Marian Keyes and Again, Rachel

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2022 54:06


'I have a full and beautiful life', says Irish writer Marian Keyes, 'The only thing I can't do is drink'. And the experience of addiction and recovery is something she's given to the main character in her book Again, Rachel, a sequel to Rachel's Holiday. Also, Michael Trant writes a book on his tractor, Jane Caro explores coercive control in The Mother and Rhett Davis's debut novel, Hovering.

The Book Show
Karen Joy Fowler targets John Wilkes Booth, America's first presidential assassin

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2022 54:06


Karen Joy Fowler wades into American Civil War history and the story of John Wilkes Booth, the first presidential assassin, in her novel Booth. Also, Kalkadoon author Megan Albany's comic novel about death and Lloyd Jones's latest allegorical novel, The Fish.

The Book Show
Craig Silvey, Tony Birch and Dervla McTiernan's joy of reading

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2022 54:06


Craig Silvey, Tony Birch and Dervla McTiernan share their love of reading from the Perth Festival Writers Weekend. They share their formative childhood reads, favourite first lines and give some writing advice along the way.

The Book Show
Isabel Allende writes about her mother, Markus Zusak gets your fanmail

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2022 54:06


Isabel Allende says her latest novel, Violeta, was inspired by her mother but also by Allende's own life. Also, readers who send fan mail and the writers who reply with Markus Zusak, Anita Heiss, John Marsden and Krissy Kneen, and disability in fiction with Joseph Elliott and Kit Kavanagh-Ryan.

The Book Show
Immigrant stories of the Big Apple with Gary Shteyngart and Xochitl Gonzalez

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2022 54:06


Our Country Friends is a funny book set in upstate New York during the pandemic by US writer Gary Shteyngart and Xochitl Gonzalez looks at the city through a Puerto Rican lens in Olga Dies Dreaming.

The Book Show
Love and literature with Hannah Kent, Roddy Doyle, Elif Shafak and more

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2022 54:07


From young love and forbidden romance to break-ups and long-term relationships: hear authors wax lyrical about love. Writers include David Nicholls, Amy Bloom, Tayari Jones, Howard Jacobson, Monica Ali, Curtis Sittenfeld, Anita Heiss, Vivian Pham, C.S Pacat and Daniel de Lorne.

The Book Show
Jason Mott's Hell of a Book

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2022 54:06


Jason Mott's Hell of a Book lives up to its name: it has a snappy title, an eccentric narrator and a Nicolas Cage cameo. Also, two authors who explore older Australian's experiences with Liz Byrski's At the End of the Day and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens.

The Book Show
Secrets and lies in Monica Ali's Love Marriage

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2022 54:06


Almost 20 years after Brick Lane, Monica Ali is still unpicking the ins and outs of relationships in her novel, Love Marriage. Also, Skimming Stones by Maria Papas was directly inspired by her daughter's own illness and Jack Ellis challenges a myth about childhood in Home and Other Hiding Places.

The Book Show
Hanya Yanagihara moves on from A Little Life

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2022 54:06


In her new book To Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara asks what would America be if its foundations were different. Also Katherine Collette's ode to Toastmasters in The Competition and Craig Sherborne's difficult mother in A Grass Hotel.

The Book Show
Masterclass with George Saunders and Tsitsi Dangarembga

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2022 54:07


Two masters of the form, George Saunders and Tsisti Dangarembga, share lessons from their extensive writing careers.

The Book Show
Life at the extremes — Pat Barker, Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Ella Baxter

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2022 54:06


The Booker-winning author Pat Barker's preoccupation with who's allowed to speak and who isn't continues in The Women of Troy, a sequel to The Silence of the Girls, her exploration of women in the Ancient Greek classics. Also, New Animal author, Ella Baxter, on how her writing relates to her artistic practice, and the final in Michael Mohammed Ahmad's trilogy featuring his alter-ego, Bani Adam, with The Other Half of You.

The Book Show
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2022 54:06


Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro introduces us to his latest creation in Klara and the Sun, and we also take a look at how authors name their heroes and villains with six writers including Tony Birch, Tabitha Bird and Mirandi Riwoe.

The Faux Pod
Episode 85: Meara Hanyon: I Mean, What Better Things Could You Do With Your Life Than Pick Up Heavy Things And Then Put Them Back Down, And Then Do It Again?

The Faux Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2021 79:37


On the first of two brand spankin' new episodes this week, my old buddy Meara stops by to chat about her journey to Babson College, her interest in law and her future plans within the field, how her interests in law and business coincide and work together, her experiences as a college athlete (field hockey) and the friendships she has made as a result (specifically looking at Faux Pod past guests Claire Nichols, Isabelle Fournier, Marissa Halkett and Amber Rose), the importance to her of working out and getting a sick pump, a wide array of invaluable advice, recent news from the sneaker world, and so much more!! Be sure to listen to this and every episode in its entirety, and enjoy! DISCLAIMER: the views expressed in this recording are not intended to be insulting or negative in any way, shape, or form, so please sit back and enjoy two friends having fun. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Book Show
Darkness and light with Patricia Lockwood, Jessie Tu and Ethan Hawke

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2021 54:06


"It's such a contradiction in life how much we learn from suffering," says actor and writer Ethan Hawke who tells The Book Show about his fourth novel A Bright Ray of Darkness. Darkness and light is a recurring theme in our other author interviews with American Patricia Lockwood and Australian Jessie Tu.

The Book Show
From Karachi to Kamchatka — literary travel with Roddy Doyle, Arundhati Roy, Elizabeth Strout and more

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2021 54:06


International travel has been off the cards for many in the last two years, this literary world tour might be the next best thing.

The Book Show
And the winner is: the book prize winners of 2021

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2021 54:02


Kate Grenville, Craig Silvey, Susanna Clarke, Nardi Simpson, Damon Galgut, Christos Tsiolkas and more on their prize-winning books. Plus, former winners Colson Whitehead, Bernardine Evaristo and Anthony Doerr on the impact of winning a major prize.

The Faux Pod
Episode 82: Amber Rose: No, I'm Not Wiz Khalifa's Ex-Wife Baby Mama

The Faux Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2021 74:58


On Episode 82 of The Faux Pod, my good pal Amber stops by to talk all about her journey from California to Maine, her experiences with being a college athlete (field hockey) and the difficult choice she had to make between D1 field hockey and less academics vs. D3 field hockey and great academics, her interest in business and marketing and where she sees the marketing field going in the future (specifically social media marketing), stories about Faux Pod legends Claire Nichols, Isabelle Fournier and Marissa Halkett, news about the NCAA allowing athletes to pursue endorsements, her YouTube channel, and so much more!! Be sure to listen to this and every episode in its entirety, and enjoy! DISCLAIMER: the views expressed in this recording are not intended to be insulting or negative in any way, shape, or form, so please sit back and enjoy two friends having fun. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Book Show
'People were already forgetting' — Jodi Picoult confronts the pandemic

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2021 53:53


Unlike many authors, Jodi Picoult decided to take on COVID-19 in Wish You Were Here, because Picoult says, "we need to remember everything we got wrong while we were learning what this disease is". Also, the salvation of poetry in Brendan Cowell's Plum and The Kindness of Birds by Filipino Australian writer Merlinda Bobis.

The Book Show
How Val McDermid's time as a newspaper journalist inspired a new crime series

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2021 54:06


Scottish crime writer Val McDermid's new book, 1979, is the beginning of a new series inspired by her own experience as a newspaper journalist in the 1970s and 80s. Also, to celebrate International Day of People With Disability we have some recommendations for speculative fiction novels that centre disabled characters, and

The Book Show
Creative lives of a Booker, Stella and Nobel winner — Bernardine Evaristo, Charlotte Wood and Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2021 53:56


"I never sunk into complacency in any aspect of my life." Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo on her latest book, Manifesto, about her unconventional path to success. Also, Stella Prize winner Charlotte Wood on cultivating a rich inner life in The Luminous Solution, and the 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, on how he became a writer.

The Book Show
Christos Tsiolkas on beauty and art

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2021 54:05


"I can't separate the erotic and the sensual from the beautiful." Melbourne Prize for Literature winner, Christos Tsiolkas on his latest novel 7½ which explores what it means to be a writer and the role of beauty in fiction. Also, Rebecca Starford and Steven Carroll on the real life characters that inspired their World War II novels, The Imitator and O.

The Book Show
Hannah Kent and Susanna Clarke on love and loneliness

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2021 52:59


Author of Burial Rites and The Good People, Hannah Kent says she wanted to look at human connection in her latest novel Devotion. It's another historical novel but is a love story about two girls whose love transcends rules, religion, and even crosses an ocean. Also, the British author, Susanna Clarke, was the winner of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel Piranesi. She talks about writing the book while living with a chronic illness.

The Book Show
Pod extra with Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2021 12:21


Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut on his award winning novel The Promise.

The Book Show
Literary powerhouses Richard Powers and Michelle de Kretser on their latest novels

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2021 54:03


"Everyday could be a day of unthinkable richness if we just keep still, attend and be present to what the place that we live in wants to do." Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers talks about the power of wilderness to centre his characters in Bewilderment, his Booker Prize-shortlisted novel. Also, two time winner of the Miles Franklin, Michelle de Kretser, on her new book, Scary Monsters which is a book in two parts, with two front covers, and is an exploration of the migrant experience.