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Richard Osman wears many hats, from television producer to comedian to podcaster. Now, however, he’s best known as a bestselling author for his series The Thursday Murder Club. Richard’s new series is called We Solve Murders and this week, he sits down with Michael to discuss it and he reveals the piece of advice he gave to Pierce Brosnan.
Reading list:
The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman, 2020
The Man Who Died Twice, Richard Osman, 2021
The Bullet That Missed, Richard Osman, 2022
The Last Devil To Die, Richard Osman, 2023
We Solve Murders, Richard Osman, 2024
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, Berg, A. Scott,1978
Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood, 2023
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Malcolm Knox began his career as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, back in the 90s. His breakout was in 2004 when, as literary editor, he broke the story of the fake Jordanian memoirist, Norma Khouri for which he won a Walkley Award. Since then he has written more than a dozen books of nonfiction and has been publishing fiction since 2000. The First Friend is his seventh novel.
Reading list:
The Wonder Lover, Malcolm Knox, 2015
Bluebird, Malcolm Knox, 2020
The First Friend, Malcolm Knox, 2024
The Temperature, Katerina Gibson, 2024
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Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish poet and writer whose debut novel Orchid And The Wasp was published in 2018 to rave reviews. Her third and latest novel, The Alternatives, might be her best yet, and this week she sits down with Michael to discuss it.
Reading list:
Gathering Evidence, Caoilinn Hughes, 2014
Orchid And The Wasp, Caoilinn Hughes, 2018
The Wild Laughter, Caoilinn Hughes, 2020
The Alternatives, Caoilinn Hughes, 2024
Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad, 2023
Long Island Compromise, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, 2024
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Rodney Hall might be the greatest Australian writer you’ve never heard of. He is a two-time Miles Franklin Award winner and has published dozens of books of fiction, poetry and memoir across his long career. Now 88, Rodney has just released his 14th novel titled Vortex and it might be his best. This week, Michael sits down with Rodney to discuss his new book and why writing is always a collaborative process between author and reader.
Reading list:
The Ship on the Coin: A Fable of the Bourgeoisie, Rodney Hall, 1972
Just Relations, Rodney Hall, 1982
Kisses of the Enemy, Rodney Hall, 1987
Captivity Captive, Rodney Hall, 1988
The Second Bridegroom, Rodney Hall, 1991
The Grisly Wife, Rodney Hall, 1993
The Island in the Mind, Rodney Hall, 1996
The Day We Had Hitler Home, Rodney Hall, 2000
The Last Love Story, Rodney Hall, 2004
Love Without Hope, Rodney Hall, 2007
Popeye Never Told You, Rodney Hall, 2010
A Stolen Season, Rodney Hall, 2018
Vortex, Rodney Hall, 2024
I Claudius, Robert Graves, 1934
Claudius the God, Robert Graves, 1935
The White Goddess, Robert Graves, 1948
An Experiment in Criticism, C.S. Lewis, 1961
The New Science, Giambattista Vico, 1725
Death at the Sign of the Rook, Kate Atkinson, 2024
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Roxane Gay is a prominent American author, professor, and cultural critic known for her unflinching honesty, quick wit, and razor-sharp intellect. She has gained acclaim for her essays, fiction, and memoirs that explore identity, gender, race, and body image. This week, Roxane joins Michael for a conversation about what it means to be a public intellectual and how this has shifted throughout her career.
Reading list:
Ayiti, Roxane Gay, 2011
An Untamed State, Roxane Gay, 2014
Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay, 2014
Difficult Women, Roxane Gay, 2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay, 2017
The Banks, Roxane Gay, 2019
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business, Roxane Gay, 2023
Jazz, Toni Morrison, 1992
The Source of Self-Regard: Essays, Speeches, Meditations, Toni Morrison, 2019
You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store.
Roxane Gay appears at Carriageworks in Sydney, as part of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas (24-25 August) and at Melbourne Town Hall (27 August), presented by the Wheeler Centre and Now or Never. For more information head to their websites.
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Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-five languages. She is a self-described “citizen of the world” and has become a notable public intellectual and human rights activist. Elif's latest novel, There are Rivers in the Sky, stretches across millenia, following a single drop of water. This week, Michael chats with Elif about her new book and why she is not just a storyteller but a silence teller, too.
Reading list:
The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak, 2006
The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak, 2009
Honour, Elif Shafak, 2011
10 Minutes 38 Seconds In this Strange World, Elif Shafak, 2019
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak, 2021
There are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak, 2024
Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf, 1928
When Cops Are Criminals, Veronica Gorrie, 2024
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Eric Beecher is a news man. As a journalist, he’s worked for some of the most well-respected newspapers in the world, including the Sydney Morning Herald and the Wall Street Journal. As his career progressed, Eric climbed the media ladder: he’s currently the head of Private Media, which runs the website, Crikey. This week, Michael sits down with Eric to discuss his new book, The Men Who Killed the News.
Reading list:
The Men Who Killed the News, Eric Beecher, 2024
Woo Woo, Ella Baxter, 2024
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Alexis Wright’s 2023 novel Praiseworthy has just been awarded the Miles Franklin Award. It also won the Stella Prize and has been described as “an astonishing feat of storytelling and sovereign imagination.” In this special episode, Alexis joins Michael for a conversation about Praiseworthy and reveals why she decided very early on in her literary career that she wasn't going to be trapped in anyone’s box.
Reading list:
Carpentaria, Alexis Wright, 2006
The Swan Book, Alexis Wright, 2013
Tracker, Alexis Wright 2017
Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright, 2023
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Evie Wyld writes dark and often trauma-informed books, but she also has a remarkable capacity to capture the tenderness of memory. Her novels have been a critical and commercial success, with her second, All The Birds Singing, winning the Miles Franklin and her third, The Bass Rock, taking home the 2021 Stella Prize. This week, Michael sits down with Evie for a conversation about her latest book The Echoes, which explores how we tell stories around, and into the absences that define us.
Reading list:
After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, Evie Wyld, 2009
All The Birds, Singing, Evie Wyld, 2013
The Bass Rock, Evie Wyld, 2020
The Echoes, Evie Wyld, 2024
Only Sound Remains, Hossein Asgari, 2023
Wall, Jen Craig, 2023
Anam, Andre Dao, 2023
The Bell of the World, Gregory Day, 2023
Hospital, Sanya Rushdi, 2023
Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright, 2023
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Michael Robotham began his career as a ghost writer, working on more than a dozen bestselling books for people like Tony Bullimore and Geri Halliwell, before he published a novel under his own name. Twenty years later, he has just released his 18th book, a new crime novel titled Storm Child. This week, the two Michaels sit down together for a conversation about crime writing, truth wizards and what’s next.
Reading list:
The Suspect, Michael Robotham, 2004
Life or Death, Michael Robotham, 2014
Good Girl, Bad Girl, Michael Robotham, 2019
When She Was Good, Michael Robotham, 2020
Storm Child, Michael Robotham, 2024
Stalking the Feature Story, William Ruehlmann, 1977
For Life, Ailsa Piper, 2024
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Dylin Hardcastle has been publishing their writing since they were 21, having now completed a memoir, a book of YA fiction and two novels. In their latest work, Dylin takes the reader back to 1972, and across three decades, explores the parallel lives of two women, shaped by their contrasting experiences of desire. This week, Michael sits down with Dylin Hardcastle for a wide-ranging conversation about this new novel, A Language of Limbs.
Reading list:
A Language of Limbs, Dylin Hardcastle, 2024
Below Deck, Sophie Hardcastle, 2020
Breathing Underwater, Sophie Hardcastle, 2016
Running Like China, Sophie Hardcastle, 2015
In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado, 2019
Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay, Lars Horn, 2022
The List, Yomi Adegoke, 2023
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Gerald Murnane doesn’t have readers, he has acolytes. The New Yorker described him as “the reclusive giant of Australian letters”. He’s written 10 novels, several collections of short stories and essays, and a memoir about horse racing. Together these books represent one of the most formidable and singular bodies of work in literature. This week, Michael drives out to the Goroke golf course to chat with Gerald on his home turf.
Reading list:
Tamarisk Row, Gerald Murnane, 1974
A Lifetime on Clouds, Gerald Murnane, 1976
The Plains, Gerald Murnane, 1982
Inland, Gerald Murnane, 1988
Emerald Blue, Gerald Murnane, 1995
Barley Patch, Gerald Murnane, 2009
A History of Books, Gerald Murnane, 2012
A Million Windows, Gerald Murnane, 2014
Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf, Gerald Murnane, 2015
Border Districts, Gerald Murnane, 2017
A Season on Earth, Gerald Murnane, 2019
Last Letter to a Reader, Gerald Murnane, 2021
You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store.
Articles on Gerald Murnane
Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town?
An Idiot in the Greek Sense
The Reclusive Giant of Australian Letters
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Sri Lankan-born Canadian essayist, poet, and Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje has just released a stunning collection of poems. Ondaatje is now 80 years old and it’s almost half a century since he published his first novel; even longer since he first published poetry. This week, Michael joins Read This for a conversation about A Year of Last Things and why writing remains such a joyful act of discovery.
Reading list:
Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje, 1976
In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje, 1986
The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Michael Ondaatje, 1989
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992
Handwriting, Michael Ondaatje, 1998
Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, 2000
Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje, 2007
The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje, 2011
Warlight, Michael Ondaatje, 2018
A Year of Last Things, Michael Ondaatje, 2024
The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin, 2013
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Paul Murray’s last two novels, Skippy Dies and The Mark and the Void, were both modern masterpieces of institutional failure. In his 2023 Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Bee Sting, the failing institution Paul turns his comedic eye to is the family. This week, Michael and Paul sit down for a discussion about fraudulence, empathy, and the beautiful opera of life.
Reading list:
An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Paul Murray, 2003
Skippy Dies, Paul Murray, 2010
The Mark and the Void, Paul Murray, 2015
The Bee Sting, Paul Murray, 2023
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World, Naomi Klein, 2023
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For many years, Irish writer Paul Lynch was a household name…in France. And while his work was popular in translation, and received numerous French literary awards, it was still considered niche. This all changed in 2023, following the release of Prophet Song, which was critically lauded and eventually won the holy grail of English language literary awards: the Booker Prize. This week we return to the Melbourne Writers’ Festival to hear a conversation between Michael and Paul about how Paul became a writer, and why he doesn’t think Prophet Song is a political novel.
Reading list:
Red Sky in Morning, Paul Lynch, 2013
The Black Snow, Paul Lynch, 2014
Grace, Paul Lynch, 2017
Beyond the Sea, Paul Lynch, 2020
Prophet Song, Paul Lynch, 2023
The Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope, 1894
King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard, 1885
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy, 1886
The Heart in Winter, Kevin Barry, 2024
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Leslie Jamison is celebrated for her ability to link the personal to the cultural to the critical in ways that resonate and move and connect with readers. She first did it with The Empathy Exams – an essay, then a best-selling, award-winning collection. Now she is back with a new book, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, a memoir about rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage. This week, Michael sits down with Leslie to discuss this latest work and what it means to be many things – a teacher, an artist, a lover and a mother.
Reading list:
The Gin Closet, Leslie Jamison, 2010
The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison, 2014
The Recovering, Leslie Jamison, 2018
Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, Leslie Jamison, 2024
Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick, 1979
Fragile Creatures, Khin Myint, 2024
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In 2015, Viet Thanh Nguyen was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel, The Sympathizer. Now, nearly a decade later, the book has been adapted into an HBO miniseries of the same name. This week, Michael sits down with Viet for a conversation about his latest book, A Man with Two Faces, which expands beyond the familiar beats of memoir, and features the author’s trademark interest in the broader political and colonial implications of the personal.
Reading list:
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2014
The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2021
A Man of Two Faces, Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2023
Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth,1968
Quarterly Essay: Highway to Hell, Joëlle Gergis, 2024
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It was 2014 when Bruce Pascoe went from being a prolific, yet relatively unknown writer, to public enemy #1 in Australia’s culture wars. That was the year that Bruce published his now infamous book, Dark Emu, and its re-examination of accepted historical accounts of pre-invasion Australia. This week, he joins Michael for a discussion about his new novel Imperial Harvest and shares why he still believes we need the messiness of democracy.
Reading list:
Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe, 2014
Imperial Harvest, Bruce Pascoe, 2024
Time’s Monster, Priya Satia, 2020
The Ministry of Time, Kellyanne Bradley, 2024
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Writer, artist, and filmmaker Miranda July has a devoted – even rabid – following, through her writing, her work on the screen, and her collaborative art projects. Her debut 2007 collection of short stories No One Belongs Here More Than You was a publishing sensation, and her debut film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, won the Palme D’Or at Cannes Film Festival. This week, she and Michael discuss her new novel, All Fours, which explores desire, intimacy, dance, and an often overlooked part of the ageing process.
Reading list:
Books
No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July, 2007
The First Bad Man, Miranda July, 2019
All Fours, Miranda July, 2024
Short Stories
‘Roy Spivey’, Miranda July, 2009 (The New Yorker)
‘The Metal Bowl’, Miranda July, 2017 (The New Yorker)
‘Women Have Been Misled About Menopause’, Susan Dominus, 2023 (The New York Times)
What Fresh Hell Is This?, Heather Corinna, 2021
Long Island, Colm Tóibín, 2024
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Across half a dozen novels, Andrew O’Hagan has made a name for himself as an author of delicacy and grace, painting the community he comes from, in Scotland’s west, with tenderness and wry, affectionate humour. His latest, Caledonian Road, follows art historian Campbell Flynn. A man who is at a turning point and is about to come up against his own downfall. This week, Michael sits down with Andrew for a conversation about the Dickensian world he has created in his new novel and why he considers it his most optimistic book yet.
Reading list:
Our Fathers, Andrew O’Hagan, 1999
Be Near Me, Andrew O’Hagan, 2006
Mayflies, Andrew O’Hagan, 2020
Caledonian Road, Andrew O’Hagan, 2024
Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro, 1971
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro, 2001
Dear Life, Alice Munro, 2012
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