The Book Show
Your favourite fiction authors share the story behind their latest books.
Latest Episode
Ben Elton and the case for popular fiction (16.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 02 | Dear Jane — the perfectly plotted Pride and Prejudice
- Pod extra: David Szalay wins the Booker Prize
- Patricia Lockwood on Dolly the sheep and long covid
- 01 | Dear Jane — the wild, not mild, Jane Austen
- Who will win the Booker Prize?
- An American elegy with Eric Puchner and Jane Harper on grief and the disappeared
- 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
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