The Book Show
Your favourite fiction authors share the story behind their latest books.
Latest Episode
An American elegy with Eric Puchner and Jane Harper on grief and the disappeared (26.10.2025)
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- Celebrating Australia's favourite reads with Trent Dalton, Hannah Kent and Barbara Kingsolver
- Heather Rose, Omar Musa and Natalia Figueroa Barroso on champagne, ghosts and the disappeared
- Peter Carey on not writing fiction anymore
- Trent Dalton and David Malouf — Brisbane's favourite sons
- How Ian McEwan is using the future to explore the present
- Arundhati Roy and Mick Herron on monstrous mothers and Slow Horses
- Toni Jordan, Richard Osman and Gail Jones on greyhounds, murder and mystery
- Top 100 Books with Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Bradley
- R.F. Kuang goes to hell with Katabasis
- Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Mills and Rhett Davis ask what's next
- Florence Knapp and Brandon Jack on the power of a name
- Amy Bloom, Ben Markovits and Barbara Truelove on love, basketball and monsters
- Ben Okri, Jana Wendt and Thomas Vowles on heartbreak, new beginnings and queer Melbourne
- "Shimmering" and "strikingly new" — Siang Lu wins Miles Franklin Literary Award
- John Boyne, Maggie Stiefvater and Laura Elvery on hope, enemy diplomats and Florence Nightingale
- From a debut to two-time winner — the Miles Franklin shortlist is here
- Ocean Vuong and Fleur McDonald reimagine Connecticut and Kalgoorlie
- Esther Freud has a lot to say about sisters
- Yael van der Wouden on sex, history and an incredible year
- Catherine Chidgey, Kevin Wilson and Josephine Rowe on history, travel and an almost saint
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