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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Book Show is hosted by ABC Australia. The show has published 250 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "01 | The Agatha Christie Murder Club: Who was Agatha?" (25 October 2026, 18 minutes), "Why R.F. Kuang won't stay in the world of Yellowface" (25 October 2026, 23 minutes), and "The Top 100 Australian Books afterparty" (18 October 2026, 55 minutes).
The Book Show publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 250 episodes.
Booking probability for The Book Show is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Book Show requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Book Show's contact route on record: verified email.
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ABC Australia hosts The Book Show, an arts show with 250 episodes published.
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At the first meeting of The Agatha Christie Murder Club we investigate the life of Agatha Christie to find out what led to a lifetime of writing detective fiction. How did her failed ambitions as an opera singer force...
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Is there any genre RF Kuang can't master? Her work continually surprises readers and for her latest novel, Taipei Story, she explains why she's shifted gears to tell a quiet story infused with subtle humour. Taipei...
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You voted, we counted and now we know: Tim Winton's Cloudstreet is our favourite-ever Australian book. In this Top 100 Australian Books afterparty we relive the highs, the lows and the controversies of the countdown...
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Before Knives Out, escape rooms and true-crime podcasts, there was Agatha Christie. The 'Queen of Crime' perfected the murder-mystery format and, 50 years after her death, we still can't get enough of her trailblazing...
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The surprising Australian links in Min Jin Lee's latest novel American Hagwon. And Bonnie Garmus stresses the importance of poetry in Peck and Peck, the follow up to Lessons in Chemistry. Why did it take ten years to...
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Conservative politician and bestselling author, Jeffrey Archer has died at 86. In one of the final interviews of his life, he recounts how his changing financial, personal and political fortunes propelled his writing...
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Why Shaun Micallef's latest novel DeAth Takes a Holiday features a cast of gothic characters including a vampire suffering from ennui, zombie slaves and the resurrection of the skeletal remains of Queen Victoria's...
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Geraldine Brooks explains how she stumbled across the story that inspired her 17th century plague novel, Year of Wonders and Zoe Foster Blake channels her favourite getaways and strong female friendships in her latest...
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Kim Scott was so disturbed by how Noongar people were depicted in the Western Australian archive that he wrote Benang: From the Heart . Plus Kate Grenville explains the origins of her latest genre-bending book and how...
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Tim Winton explains why his beloved Cloudstreet is not a nostalgic novel, while Holly Ringland admits she was "nostalgia sick" for the 1990s while writing The World Beneath Her Feet. Cloudstreet follows the Lamb and...
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Helen Garner finds it painful to think back to the time when she wrote her autobiographical novel, Monkey Grip, about a young mum and her love affair with a heroin addict. Monkey Grip was published in 1977 and was...
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Omar Musa, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Nadine Garner share the Australian books that shaped their reading life. Find out what they want to do with problematic classics like My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. The event...
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Liane Moriarty reveals why she finally wrote the Big Little Lies sequel after being resistant to the idea for so long. And Garth Nix combines mystery with science fiction in his latest novel, Massif. After the success...
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Indian author Vikas Swarup explains the key to his success with Slumdog Millionaire and why he thinks his new book has a winning premise. Plus venture capitalist turned novelist Jessy Wu's Good Intentions. Former Indian...
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Bestselling author Meg Mason knows what it's like to be the object of readers' obsessions, but in Sophie, Standing There, she imagines what it's like to be the book-loving fan. Plus, Bobuq Sayed's journey from...
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Discover why the forests sing in Omar Musa's Miles Franklin Literary Award winning novel, Fierceland . Poet, visual artist, hip-hop musician and author Omar Musa finds magic in Italian beads, vengeful ghosts and the...
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Why American author Dave Eggers' new novel Contrapposto has taken over 20 years to write, and debut novelist Maria Takolander takes us to a future world ravaged by climate change in which she says "there's no time for...
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From hopping zombies to singing forests and a lot of queer characters, we break down the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist and pick our favourites from strong contenders including Randa Abdel-Fattah, Omar...
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Mick Herron reveals how the first of his Slow Horses series almost didn't get published. He joined Claire Nichols and a packed audience at the State Library of Western Australia, to discuss this famous series and his...
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer makes the case for the 'charm novel' with his latest, Villa Coco , about an eccentric Italian baroness and a young American in rural Tuscany. And, as Naomi Ishiguro tells Claire...
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