Published...Or Not
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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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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...
Sofie Laguna, Lili Wilkinson and Penny Tangey
‘The Last Egg’ is a picture story book by Sofie Laguna. It is about love, kindness and loyalty with a fantastical end. Lili Wilkinson has Titch the mo...
Anna Snoekstra and Robbie Coburn
A much loved daughter could ruin a family and just what is it, that this family have to hide? Anna Snoekstra has written a very well crafted mystery i...
Catherine Greer
Audrey has left her husband and career in advertising. Now she bakes cakes and fortune cookies that tell the bitter truth, but can she start a busines...
Andre Dao and Amanda Hampson
A grandson tries to learn a family story in Andre Dao’s ‘Anam’. Murder and mayhem on the waterfront, marihuana cigarettes and...
Dominic Amerena and Chris Flynn
He wants to be a successful and acclaimed writer. He wants to know all the truths and write her biography even if it requires deceit. Dominic Amerena...
Christine Keighery and Madeleine Cleary
The bond of friendship can unravel when doubt and superstition start to take hold. And the spiritual comfort we seek in such circumstances can also le...
Cynthia Timoti and Gregory Day
‘Salty, Spiced and a Little Bit Nice’ has Ellie a type 1 diabetic wanting independence from her controlling family but not wanting to be hurt again by...
Victoria Brownlee, Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion
Food blogger, Chloe, is competing for an interview with a famous chef in Victoria Brownlee's novel, 'Eat Your Heart Out'.Doctor Hannah Wright must bal...
Marion Taffe and Laura McCluskey
By Her Hand is Marion Taffe's debut novel where the protagonist must write her rage to win her war.Laura McCluskey takes us to an isolated island off...
Peter Norris and Kate Grenville
Peter Norris writes about his upbringing with his career criminal father who was a bank robber and jail escapee in the memoir, The Bank Robbers Boy.Ka...
Ella Ward
A cicada leaves a shell of its former self behind suggesting a past life and this notion is played upon in Ella Ward's novel, The Cicada House.
Kate Solly and Steve MinOn
Kate Solly has written a cosy crime book ‘The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch Up’.Family saga mixes with macabre happenings in ‘First Name Second...
Anna Ciddor and Belinda Probert
Her Gramps has dementia and it is through a time slip that Charlotte relives the moon landing and brings sparks of awareness and her own empathy to hi...
Fiona Hardy and Andrea Goldsmith
Alice and Teddy are two women on the fringes of criminality who begin to realize they are implicated in drug running and murder in Fiona Hardy's novel...
Tara Calaby and Geraldine Brooks
It is not only communicating with the spirits of the dead that is perplexing for Ellen but her feeling towards one of the other members of the family...
Tayla Holborow and Mandy Beaumont
Jennifer Wolfe thinks she is fighting just for her family but her survival and the truths she could reveal could bring down a dictatorship. She become...
Lili Wilkinson and Alex Miller
Lili Wilkinson's, "Unhallowed Halls', is set on the Scottish moors. It is where dark academia and demons collide. Should the creative arts be inviola...
Valerie Colyer and Geoff Parkes
The stories and songs coming from a writing course in a women’s prison, brings black humour and a little understanding of these women’s lives and crim...
Thuy On and Mark Smith
Thuy On, once again, explores, language, love and the arts in her latest poetry collection, ‘Essence’.Grace had to contend with grieving parents, conf...
Sean Wilson and Maryrose Cuskelly
‘You Must Remember This’ by Sean Wilson is an eloquent jumble of a family story with a tender portrait of Grace and her slippages of memory with demen...
David Sornig
Blue Lake by David Sornig is part history, part biography and part personal reflection on a much overlooked part of Melbourne's landscape. Situated to...
Darren Rix and Craig Cormick
When Captain Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia, he renamed many of the landmarks. In ‘Warra Warra Wai’ the names and stories of these landma...
Siang Lu
Ghost Cities by Siang Lu is an epic tale. Historical China with paranoid emperors finds a parralel with megalomaniaical film directors in the present...
Peter Rose
Peter Rose, long time editor of ABR, talks about the recent edition '2024 Books of the Year', with over 40 contributors. David, Lisa and Jan add the b...