The outwardly comfortable life of mother and wife .Winina Dalloway has dark currents running beneath it. Thunderhead is the interior monologue of a woman acting normally but living under threat as she picks up her children from school, shops and prepares for a dinner party. A homage to Virginia Wolfe’s The Days, the book is a reminder of the drama and terror that can lurk beneath domesticity.

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Bet Schenk brings a poet’s pared-down style and awareness of the power of language to this book set in a small country town where the local teen hero is actually anything but - and his brother knows the truth. The Most Famous Boy in Town is billed as teen fiction but it’s a story for all ages.

And our regular literary academic Kylie Cardell reviews Lioness by Emily perkins, winner of the 2024 New Zealand Ockham Book Awards

Guests

Miranda Darling, author and poet

Bel Schenk, author and poet

Kylie Cardell, Associate Professor , English and Creative Writing, Flinders University

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In a move away from investigative journalism and her previous deep diving non-fiction
titles, Louise Milligan delves into crime fiction with debut novel, Pheasants Nest.
It tells the story of Kate Delaney, a journalist who finds herself bound and gagged and
being driven somewhere by a strange man. As someone haunted by the crimes she has
had to report on, Kate knows her chances of survival are slight.

Guest:
Louise Milligan

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Miles Franklin Award winner, Shankari Chandran takes Cath to Cinnamon Gardens, an aged care home established by Tamil refugees and now run by their daughter. It’s run with love and dignity and has become an oasis for its culturally diverse residents…but the tensions of past wars and the prejudices of present day Australia which have long remained at a simmer ultimately boil over.

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Associate Professor Lisa Bennett shares her passion for stories soaked in mist and old magic with “Storyland”; a masterful, unique and utterly compelling illustrated mythology of Britain. Be transported to a time when England was considered the furthest outpost on any map and half remembered characters such as Brutus, Albina, Scota and Bladud roamed the earth …and our imaginations.

Guests

Shankari Chandran, author of “Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens” which won the 2023 Miles Franklin Award. She’s also the author of “Song of the Sun God” and “The Barrier”.

Associate Professor Lisa Bennett, from the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University discusses “Storyland; A new mythology of Britain” by Amy Jeffs.

Other books that get a mention

“Wild; Tales from Early Medieval Britain” by Amy Jeffs, “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, “The Thursday Murder Club” by Richard Osman and “Pheasant’s Nest” by Louise Milligan.

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