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Our first show for 2013 was recorded at the Perth Writers Festival, featuring festival guests China Mieville and Shamini Flint, along with your host Jennifer Byrne and regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger.
Australian authors Toni Jordan and Andy Griffiths join your host Jennifer Byrne and regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger to discuss Graeme Simsion's new release The Rosie Project and Franz Kafka's classic Metamorphosis.
The Light Between Oceans (9:20)
The Silence of the Lambs (11:16)
In this Sydney Writers Festival edition of The Book Club, Festival guests Lauren Beukes and Carlos Ruiz Zafon join the gang to discuss The Sound of Things Falling by Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez, as well as William Gibson's classic, Pattern Recognition.
Host Jennifer Byrne and regulars Marieke Hardy & Jason Steger are joined by inaugural Stella Prize winning author, Carrie Tiffany and writer and raconteur Benjamin Law. The Club discusses Sharp Objects – the recently re-released debut novel by Gillian Flynn, better known to readers as the author of the smash hit Gone Girl. Our classic is the book chosen by you, our wonderful viewers! Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Host Jennifer Byrne alongside Book Club regulars Marieke Hardy & Jason Steger are joined by screenwriter Jane Allen and award winning journalist and broadcaster Mark Colvin to discuss Claire Messud's new release, The Woman Upstairs and Flann O'Brien's posthumously published classic, The Third Policeman.
Tonight's edition of The Book Club comes direct from Melbourne Writers Festival.
Host Jennifer Byrne and regulars Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by two special festival guests - Pulitzer Prize winning author and academic Junot Diaz, along with acclaimed author, broadcaster and critic, Sarah Dunant. Tonight the club discuss two books exploring the dark meeting place of power, politics and art - Rupert Thomson's new release, Secrecy, as well as Junot's classic pick, By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano.
In this episode of The Book Club, host Jennifer Byrne plus regular panelists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by everyone's favourite movie reviewer, David Stratton. Rounding out the Club is lauded local author, academic and critic, Delia Falconer. Tonight's panel discuss new release, 'The Beautiful Ruins' by Jess Walter and Elizabeth Harrower’s recently reissued Australian classic, 'The Watch Tower'.
In this episode of The Book Club, Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by Archibald Prize winning artist Ben Quilty and author and academic Kathryn Heyman to discuss Richard Flanagan's much anticipated new release 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'. Marieke has chosen November’s classic, the gorgeous graphic novel 'Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth' by Chris Ware.
Don't miss the last Book Club of the year! John Birmingham and Lucy Turnbull join the Club to discuss Robert Galbraith's new release The Cuckoo's Calling, as well as Hunter S Thompson's classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
