Your favourite fiction authors share the story behind their latest books.
Pod extra with the Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch
Nov. 27, 2023
19:00
Richard Flanagan on the atomic bomb, HG Wells and a kiss
53:56
Tony Birch and Christos Tsiolkas on love, shame and dangerous dinner-parties
Nov. 20, 2023
54:03
Booker Prize shortlist — mythical, profound and lyrical
Nov. 13, 2023
54:04
"We don't come from nowhere" — Melissa Lucashenko on her historical novel Edenglassie
Nov. 6, 2023
54:06
Haunting Halloween fiction with Shehan Karunatilaka, Steve Toltz and many more
Oct. 30, 2023
53:45
Between two worlds with Jesmyn Ward, Graham Akhurst and Anna McGahan
Oct. 23, 2023
"It began with a crime" — Cassandra Clare's latest fantasy fiction
Oct. 16, 2023
54:01
Trent Dalton on homelessness, hope and the tyrannosaurus waltz
Oct. 9, 2023
Avatars and the afterlife with Jeanette Winterson
Oct. 2, 2023
54:05
Sebastian Faulks and what makes us human
Sept. 25, 2023
Booker Prize winner: Margaret Atwood
Sept. 19, 2023
26:17
Booker Prize winner: Damon Galgut
25:38
Booker Prize winner: Shehan Karunatilaka
24:57
Booker Prize winner: George Saunders
17:50
Booker Prize winner: Douglas Stuart
16:15
Booker Prize winner: Bernardine Evaristo
22:38
Feel good fiction
Sept. 18, 2023
54:07
"I think of my reader as a kind of cyborg" — Zadie Smith
Sept. 11, 2023
"We love the people we damage" — Anne Enright
Sept. 4, 2023
Coming of age with Chris Womersley, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Zeynab Gamieldien
Aug. 28, 2023
Kate Grenville and Kevin Jared Hosein resurrect ghosts of the past
Aug. 21, 2023
Crime fiction queen Jane Harper on what she'll do next
Aug. 14, 2023
Famous friends and talking organs with Ann Patchett and Tracy Sorensen
Aug. 7, 2023
Melancholy in the library with Patrick deWitt, Josh Kemp and Ali Cobby Eckermann
July 31, 2023
Pod Extra with 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Shankari Chandran
July 25, 2023
25:01
Anna Funder and Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
July 24, 2023
Richard Ford says goodbye to his creation Frank Bascombe
July 17, 2023
'Model minority' myth-busting with Tracey Lien and Nina Wan
July 10, 2023
Writer to writer with Larissa Behrendt, Anita Heiss and Ellen van Neerven
July 3, 2023
Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist 2023: pod extra interview special
June 29, 2023
Booker winners Shehan Karunatilaka and Damon Galgut
June 26, 2023
Lisa See's portrait of female friendship in Ming dynasty China
June 19, 2023
Home, art and love with Kate Morton, Stephanie Bishop and Zoya Patel
June 12, 2023
53:59
Max Porter and Barbara Kingsolver's lost boys
June 5, 2023
55:03
Don Winslow, plus Fakes and Frauds #5 Wanda Koolmatrie hoax
May 29, 2023
02:06
Trees in fiction with Richard Powers, Hannah Kent, Elif Shafak and more
May 22, 2023
53:52
Fakes and Frauds #4 Helen Demidenko, plus Shirley Le
May 15, 2023
00:59
Eleanor Catton, plus Fakes and Frauds #3 Mutant Message Down Under
May 8, 2023
02:52
Curtis Sittenfeld, plus Fakes and Frauds #2 Norma Khouri
May 1, 2023
00:37
Alexis Wright, plus Fakes and Frauds #1 The Dogs by John Hughes
April 24, 2023
Mothers on the page with Larissa Behrendt, Alice Pung and Chloe Hooper
April 17, 2023
Lessons in life, mortality and love from Julian Barnes
April 10, 2023
Bookbinding and ghost towns with Pip Williams and Dominic Smith
April 3, 2023
‘I didn’t know I had anger in me’ – Anindita Ghose kills off the patriarch
March 27, 2023
00:00
John Boyne, Esther Freud, Louise Kennedy and the Irish voice
March 20, 2023
Margaret Atwood on witches, cats and a lifetime of writing
March 13, 2023
Grief, plague and Star Trek with Sequoia Nagamatsu
March 6, 2023
Dragons, literary acrobatics and a house called Shirley with Samantha Shannon, Cate Kennedy and Ronnie Scott
Feb. 27, 2023
Love, lust and ghosts: celebrating queer fiction
Feb. 20, 2023
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