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Joining Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger on The Book Club will be international guests from the Perth Writers' Festival Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) and John Lanchester (The Debt to Pleasure).
Clade
Brother of the More Famous Jack
Jennifer Byrne and panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by award-winning writer and slam poetry champion Maxine Beneba Clarke and ABC News reporter/presenter and author of Storyteller, Zoe Daniel.
An Untamed State
My Place
In May, The Book Club host Jennifer Byrne plus regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by former political speechwriter and award-winning author of The Bush, Don Watson. Completing the panel is international best-selling author Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret).
This club discuss Malcolm Knox’s very recent novel The Wonder Lover and Don Watson brings along the classic, If This Is a Man by Primo Levi.
In June, The Book Club comes to you from Sydney Writers Festival.
Jennifer Byrne plus regular clubbers Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by two very special guests from the festival. Actor, director and author of Not My Father's Son, Alan Cumming, plus writer, naturalist and scholar Helen Macdonald, author of the award winning H is for Hawk.
This lively panel will discuss new release The Discreet Hero by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, as well as Alan's favourite, Enid Blyton's Five on a Treasure Island.
This month, Jennifer Byrne plus regular clubbers Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger will be joined by journalist and author Anson Cameronas well as author and co-founder of literary journal Kill Your Darlings, Hannah Kent. The July panel discuss Åsne Seierstad's new release 'One of Us', plus Hannah's pick for classic - Patrick Suskind's 'Perfune: The Story of a Murderer'.
This month The Book Club host Jennifer Byrne and regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by popular broadcaster Kate Langbroek and best-selling children’s book author Andy Griffiths.
The August panel discusses Harper Lee's much anticipated Go Set A Watchman as well as Marieke’s classic pick, Patricia Highsmith’s This Sweet Sickness.
This month The Book Club's Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by stellar Melbourne Writers Festival guests, writers Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Psychopath Test, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed) and Will Self (The Book of Dave, Umbrella, Shark) to discuss Preparation for the Next Life - the startling debut novel from Atticus Lish. Jennifer brings along this month’s classic, a graphic memoir from The New Yorker magazine cartoonist Roz Chast called Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
This month THE BOOK CLUB host Jennifer Byrne and regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by celebrity chef and cookbook author Adam Liaw. Book Club favourite, actress and entertainer Virginia Gay, completes the panel to discuss Canadian author Patrick deWitt’s new release, Undermajordomo Minor. Adam brings along this month’s classic - Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.
This month THE BOOK CLUB is part of ABC On The Road coming to you from The Garden City, Toowoomba, Queensland. Host Jennifer Byrne and regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by acclaimed playwright Hannie Rayson and Queensland journalist and author Matthew Condon to discuss the provocative new novel The Natural Way of Things by Australian author Charlotte Wood, and the classic Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
In December, The Book Club bring’s you an hour long end of year special, FIVE OF THE BEST.
Jennifer Byrne and regular guests Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by ABC TV’s own Leigh Sales, and Wheeler Centre director Michael Williams to discuss five books handpicked by our panellists to kick start your holiday reading.
Jennifer's pick is Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski, Marieke’s choice is Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread, Jason brings The Whites by Harry Brandt (aka Richard Price), Leigh is bringing along Relativity by Antonia Hayes and Michael rounds out the list with A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.
We will also announce the top five books as voted by our audience. This special episode will culminate with the poll result for your favourite new book in 2015 – your FIVE OF THE BEST.
