Good Reading Podcast
Good Reading Podcast
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James Boyce asks us to take a fresh look at our early history in Origins: The Making of Australia 1788-1825
This fascinating book sets aside the clichés of Australian history and asks us to look again. What really happened when exiled criminals made a home in an occupied and defended country? How were they changed by this new world? What can the firs...
Antoni Jach on a gathering of friends in the 'Eternal City' in 'A Midsummer Party'
An Australian journalist attends a party in Rome, the Eternal City. The result is at once a celebration and a distillation of what travel can be and still is: an intelligent, hilarious, and sometimes prickly conversation between cultures. W...
Anthony Sharwood and Anna Langford on saving a precious Australian tree in, 'The Last Snow Gum'
Snow gums are the most beautiful trees on Earth. But they're vanishing quickly. In this stunning new book, bestselling author Anthony Sharwood and climate activist Anna Langford help us view Australia's unique high country with fresh eyes, show...
Wayne Marshall on his 2026 ARA Historical Novel Society Australasia's People's Choice award-winning novel, 'Henry Goes Bush'
In 1892, New South Wales' most promising writer and least promising teetotaller, Henry Lawson, is banished to Bourke to 'find the real bush'. The goal: sober up, gather fresh material, and stop being such a disappointment. But what Australia's ...
Meg Caddy on her 2026 ARA Historical Novel Society Australasia's prize-winning YA novel, 'A Flash in the Dust'
1899, Fremantle Asylum, Western Australia. For three years now, Gilberta Brady has kept quiet and stayed out of trouble, hoping to soon be released. But when Norah Devaney screams into the ward with revenge in her heart and a story no-one belie...
