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  • 2017-04-18T11:30:00Z on ABC
  • 25m
  • 3h 45m (9 episodes)
  • Australia
  • English
Hosted by Jennifer Byrne, First Tuesday Book Club (later called just "The Book Club") is a nationally televised book club. Following the general format of a traditional book club, selected titles are announced in advance to give viewers time to read the book before tuning in to the show to follow the broadcast debate which is designed to lead discussions at home. As the name suggests, the show airs on the first Tuesday of each month and it then repeated that Sunday.

9 episodes

Season Premiere

2017-04-18T11:30:00Z

11x01 Storm and Grace / Hillbilly Elegy

Season Premiere

11x01 Storm and Grace / Hillbilly Elegy

  • 2017-04-18T11:30:00Z25m

Join The Book Club guests Clementine Ford and Michael Robotham along with regulars Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger for our first show of 2017!

11x02 Exit West / The Monkey's Mask

  • 2017-04-25T11:30:00Z25m

Guests Omar Musa and C.S. Pacat join Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger to chat about Mohsin Hamid's Exit West and Dorothy Porter's sexy The Monkey's Mask.

Guests John Safran and Michael Williams join Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy, and Jason Steger on the club to discuss Michael Chabon's Moonglow and the frolicking classic - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

With C.S. Pacat and Zoe Norton Lodge, The Book Club grapples with the ghostly Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders and the timely classic, The Handmaid's Tale.

11x05 Jean Harley Was Here / The Group

  • 2017-05-16T11:30:00Z25m

With Di Morrissey and Adam Liaw, The Book Club consider 'Jean Harley Was Here' by Heather Taylor Johnson and a favourite of two Clubbers - The Group by Mary McCarthy.

Guests Ben Quilty and Jane Allen (Co-writer/Producer of Cleverman, Crownies, and Janet King) join Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger to discuss David Grann's exploration into the Osage county murders and much-loved children's classic 'Watership Down'.

11x07 Sydney Writers' Festival Special

  • 2017-05-30T11:30:00Z25m

A Book Club special featuring an awe-inspiring line up of Sydney Writers' Festival visitors sharing the Books That Changed My Life: Short story legend, George Saunders, Booker prize winner, Anne Enright, essayist and debut novelist, Brit Bennett and journalist, writer and filmmaker, Mikhail Zygar.

Sydney Writer's Festival guests Colson Whitehead and Natalie Haynes join Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger to discuss Arundhati Roy's 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' and Junot Diaz's 'Drown'.

Final episode of the show.

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (6:05)
The Book of Dust (7:36)
The Pleasures of Leisure ()
Home Fire (6:45)
The Restorer ()

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