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Australian and international authors talk about their books and how they got published or how they self-published. Listeners, writers and readers will also hear about what's going on in our local writing community.
Unknown Host hosts Published...Or Not, a news show with 535 episodes published.
Women proving rape is questionable in court today but what of a 13year old in Vicenza Italy back in 1757. Christine Balint hasanother wonderful historical fiction written from a well researched fact in a ‘A Single Witnes
Show notesJung, fairy tales and the future all converge in Karen Comer's latest novel, 'Once Upon Tomorrow'.'The Angry Wives Club' is a domestic noir novel with a chick-lit twist by Gabbie Stroud.
Show notesA serial killer enamoured with the internet is a dangerous thing - a scenarion explored in Sarah Bailey's novel, 'Click'.'How to Date Like a Dangerous Woman' is a modern guide to dating safely by
Show notesKerry Jewell's, 'A Little Unwell', is a book about life, death and surviving the night shift as a medical practitioner. 'The Belly of the Wolf' is Julianne Negri's verse narrative addressing
Show notesThe success of the miniature railway is being sabotaged. Observant mother Fleck Parker is asked to find out who could possibly be doing this in Kate Solly’s warm hearted ‘The Paradise Heights Miniature Railway Bust-Up’.
Show notesIrma Gold has written a moving tale 'Shift' set in Kiliptown, South Africa.Sarah Walker’s book is ‘The Water Takes’. The title is unfinished just as the ending is open but the novel has characters so honestly d
Show notesA farmer and a movie star, both trying hard to parent their problem kids and both having their much loved spouses die. What future could there be for them in such different life styles. ‘A Farm in the Golden Clouds’, a s
Show notesIn ‘The Writer’s Retreat’, it’s not just fiction that is being written and the closer it becomes to real life is when the suspense just doesn’t happen on the page, cleverly crafted by Victoria Brownlee.
Show notesGordon Thompson catapults a young William Shakespeare and many of his characters into the present day in his novel, Kill Will.The trauma of war links a small community on an island off Scotland, massacres in Bosnia and a
Show notesGrace wants the cultural emersion of Italy but has to decide if language barriers limit or enhance desire. ‘Slip’ by Abbey Lay could mean a slide for Grace back into, or out of, her comfortable relationship. An assassina
Show notesThe loss of a body in Fiona Hardy's latest novel, 'Old Game',' isn't the crime you'd expect in a work of detective fiction but that's not the only surprise when a tennis star's acc
Show notesThe resonance of literature and its interconnectedness with geography, the lives or artists and one's own individual journey intermingle in 'On Not Climbing Mountains' by Claire Thomas.Bridie Blake has wri
Show notes'The Mother of All Calamities' is Lisa Moule's debut novel about the travails of parenting in the modern age. She has reminded us about the joys and hazards of parenting by bringing alive the problems and
Show notes‘Murder in the Suburbs’ are true crime cases committed by neighbours or even family with often the psychological reason of why they did it, researched and written by Emily Webb. A murder in the East Melbourne library ser
Show notesA drying lake leads to a discovery of a corpse on a cracked shoreline in Michael Brissenden's, ‘Dust’. What follows is a tale of intrigue and deception in a morally deprived and environmentally compromised landscape
Show notesAn Australian photographer in New York meets a wealthy businessman from LA who has a controlling family and insistent fiancé. Will the necessities of life drive them apart? ‘Capturing Love’ is the first in a romantic ser
Show notesA scout on another planet makes money from plundering the ruins of an alien civilisation but finds himself questioning every choice he has made in John Morrissey’s ‘Bird Deity’.The Furphy Literary Award has just released
Show notesMurray Middleton toys with narrative conventions in his short story anthology, 'U Want It Darker'. These tales of 'artists in despair' speak to the emotional challenges faced by those contributing to
Show notesSiang Lu's novel, Ghost Cities, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2025. We thought it timely, as we begin our 2026 season, to revisit his interview on Published or Not when the book first came out. The imagin
Show notes‘The Hiding Place’ is a literary thriller written by Kate Mildenhall.‘What Have They Done to Liza McLean?’ sister Meg needs to get into the school data base which requires help from the very handsome and wealthy Benedict
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