The Book Show
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The Book Show
Your favourite fiction authors share the story behind their latest books.
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Howard Jacobson embraces being a Jewish writer
Howard Jacobson joins Claire Nichols to unpack Howl, and Australian authors Eva Hornung and Omar Musa discuss their latest novels.
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Francis Spufford's Nonesuch shows World War II as you've never it seen before
In his new novel, Nonesuch, British author Francis Sufford introduces a fabulously spiky heroine fighting fascism and mysterious moving statues during...
Tayari Jones on her beautiful new novel Kin
Tayari Jones, author of the Women's Prize-winning An American Marriage, returns with Kin, a work of historical fiction that illuminates the inner live...
Tayari Jones on absent mothers and the American South
Your favourite fiction authors share the story behind their latest books.
Patrick Ryan and Sita Walker on seances, secrets and school rooms
A stolen kiss propels Patrick Ryan's American epic, Buckeye, which traces the loves, loss and lies of two Ohio couples. And Sita Walker on her inventi...
George Saunders on angels and the afterlife
American author George Saunders reflects on why death is such fertile ground for fiction and how it shapes his haunting new novel Vigil. Plus, Austral...
Adam Kay on how medicine and comedy shaped his debut novel
Doctor‑turned‑memoirist‑turned‑comedian Adam Kay makes his fiction debut with A Particularly Nasty Case, a medical murder mystery set inside a hospita...
Trent Dalton and Gregory Maguire on why there's no place like home
Bestselling author Trent Dalton reveals how The Wizard of Oz appears in every book he's written — from Boy Swallows Universe to his latest novel, Grav...
Philip Pullman's enduring legacy
Philip Pullman's 30 year enchantment with his heroine Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials continues with The Rose Field. And Zoe Terakes takes a quee...
Summer highlights: David Nicholls and Liane Moriarty on their starry screen adaptations
From Sydney Writers Festival, two bestselling writers, David Nicholls and Liane Moriarty, reveal what it's like to see their stories go from the page...
Summer highlights: Arundhati Roy, Colum McCann and Morgan Talty
God of Small Things author Arundhati Roy on her monstrous mother and becoming a writer, Colum McCann dives into the digital age with Twist and Penobsc...
Summer highlights: Samantha Harvey's accidental prize winner
British author Samantha Harvey joined Claire Nichols at the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival for a revelatory conversation about dreams, in...
Summer highlights: Marian Keyes on writing to save her life
Irish writer Marian Keyes joined Claire Nichols at the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival and they spoke about how Marian became a writer whe...
Summer highlights: Ocean Vuong, Charlotte McConaghy and David Malouf
Ocean Vuong's dazzling follow up to his debut On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Charlotte McConaghy's urgent Wild Dark Shore and David Malouf reflects...
Bri Lee, Madeleine Gray and Kate Mildenhall on friendship, families and the future
Bri Lee, Madeleine Gray and Kate Mildenhall break the mould with their new books about fraying families, frightening futures and creepy animals in See...
05 | Dear Jane — The endlessly adaptable Austen
Why is Jane Austen endlessly adaptable? After all, her Pride and Prejudice character, Elizabeth Bennett, has fought zombies, investigated murders, bee...
Jeanette Winterson releases the reading Genie
For Jeanette Winterson, reading has been her liberation but she's worried about its future. She asks what AI means for storytelling in her new book On...
04 | Dear Jane — Reading Emma in Pakistan
Jane Austen's influence has spread well beyond the Anglosphere 250 years after her birth and today we consider the the parallels between Austen's Rege...
Megha Majumdar and Sally Hepworth on climate crisis and granny serial killers
Megha Majumdar's A Guardian and a Thief asks what a billionaire, a manager and homeless person have in common, Sally Hepworth reveals the dramatic con...
03 | Dear Jane — Persuasion, the original second chance romance
Jane Austen's novel Persuasion was the last she completed before her death and it is considered a more mature, sombre romance, and in Dear Jane, we as...
Ben Elton and the case for popular fiction
British comic Ben Elton on the Aussie inspiration for writing fiction, and Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna on the collision of puberty and Roman my...
02 | Dear Jane — the perfectly plotted Pride and Prejudice
In a Jane Austen novel, what does it mean if a character is in the Navy? What role do aunts and silly characters play? And what's the significance of...
Pod extra: David Szalay wins the Booker Prize
The British-Hungarian author David Szalay restrained novel Flesh has won the 2025 Booker Prize.
The prize was presented to Szalay by Samantha H...
Patricia Lockwood on Dolly the sheep and long covid
Patricia Lockwood's latest book is the third exploring her inner state, just don't call it a trilogy. A call to all Jane Austen lovers with the beginn...
01 | Dear Jane — the wild, not mild, Jane Austen
We're celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday with Dear Jane, a brand-new series about her life, her books and her legacy.
In the first insta...
01 | Dear Jane — the wild, not mild, Jane Austen
We're celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday with Dear Jane, a brand-new series about her life, her books and her legacy.
In the first insta...
Who will win the Booker Prize?
Become a Booker Prize expert and meet the shortlisted authors before the winner is announced in a ceremony featuring classic British pomp and fanfare....
An American elegy with Eric Puchner and Jane Harper on grief and the disappeared
The American elegy, Dream State by American author Eric Puchner is one of Claire's favourite books of the year, Australian crime novelist Jane Harper...
Celebrating Australia's favourite reads with Trent Dalton, Hannah Kent and Barbara Kingsolver
The Top 100 Books of the 21st Century countdown is complete and now it's time to find out the inspiration behind some of Australia's favourite books w...
Heather Rose, Omar Musa and Natalia Figueroa Barroso on champagne, ghosts and the disappeared
Heather Rose found writing her latest novel challenging because it's partly based on some murky family secrets. The author of The Museum of Modern Lov...
Peter Carey on not writing fiction anymore
It's 25 years since True History of the Kelly Gang came out and while Peter Carey might not be writing fiction anymore he says he's proud of his books...
Trent Dalton and David Malouf — Brisbane's favourite sons
Trent Dalton's new novel Gravity Let Me Go is about a middle aged journalist who can't let go of a good story, and David Malouf reflects on a life of...
How Ian McEwan is using the future to explore the present
Ian McEwan's futuristic novel What We Can Know is about rising sea levels and a lost poem. Plus, Randa Abdel-Fattah's response to the crisis in Gaza i...
Arundhati Roy and Mick Herron on monstrous mothers and Slow Horses
God of Small Things author Arundhati Roy remembers her difficult mother and how she was shaped as a writer, and Mick Herron on the success of Slow Hor...
Toni Jordan, Richard Osman and Gail Jones on greyhounds, murder and mystery
Australian author of Addition, Toni Jordan, goes gambling with greyhounds in Tenderfoot, Richard Osman digs up the background to The Thursday Murder C...
Top 100 Books with Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Bradley
Discover the favourite books from the 21st century of Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Bradley who share their best reads for ABC Radio Nation...
R.F. Kuang goes to hell with Katabasis
Yellowface author R.F. Kuang returns to speculative fiction with her latest novel Katabasis, a campus novel set in hell. Plus Australian author Moreno...
Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Mills and Rhett Davis ask what's next
Russian born US writer Gary Shteyngart imagines a future America with strong parallels to Russia in Vera, or Faith, Adelaide based author Jennifer Mil...
Florence Knapp and Brandon Jack on the power of a name
Florence Knapp's debut novel The Names is a sliding doors story about the naming of a child and has been a surprise success (for her). Plus Brandon Ja...
Amy Bloom, Ben Markovits and Barbara Truelove on love, basketball and monsters
Amy Bloom on her latest novel I'll Be Right Here about an unconventional chosen family, Ben Markovits goes on the road with his Booker Prize longliste...