In forty new episodes each year, Writers Radio brings you the best of Australian writing, both published and yet-to-be. Poets, novelists, playwrights, biographers, the occasional songwriter and others read new work and discuss it with presenter Cath Kenneally, while regular reviewers suck the marrow from the latest Australian novels and poetry. Just about every Oz writer has appeared on this program, where many had their first piece broadcast. All the famous names and new talent on the point of going stellar - Oz Lit pre-packed (and partly digested!) for you in one weekly half-hour hit.

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The dates below are Radio Adelaide's broadcast schedule.

New Series 2009

December 7, 12

Two novelists read from work in progress: Anne Bartlett author of Knitting reads some of an untitled work set in WW II, and Margot McGovern some of Living with the Saints

November 30, Dec 5

Granaz Moussavi, Iranian born Australian filmmaker and poet, on My Tehran for Sale Gillian Dooley reviews Evie Wyld's and Robyn Mundy's novels, one on Fire and one on Ice Cath Kenneally and Ruth Starke discuss Peter Temple's Truth, successor to The Broken Shore

November 23, 28

Two graphic novelists, i.e. authors of illustrated stories, Dan McGuinness and Ruth Starke, on Pilot and Huxley and Captain Congo and the Maharaja's Monkey Bryce Courtenay on this year's page-turner The Story of Danny Dunn

November 16, 21

Cath Kenneally and Ken Bolton discuss Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch; Gillian Dooley reviews Steven lang and HM Brown talks about Red Queen

November 9, 14

Hannah Kent reading from Agnes Magnusdottir, about a Swedish murderess; Ken Bolton reads the God of trieste, a poem, and Peter Bakowski reads new work and some of new book Beneath our Armour

November 2, 7

Philip Gwynne on YA novel Swerve; review of Smoke in the Room and Summertime (Maguire and Coetzee) and a read from Sea Acres, by Sandy Verschoor

October 26, 31

Shannon Burns with The Beach, a poem; Maya Linden reads from Anatomy of the Upper Body, a new novel in porgress. Cath Kenneally reads poems by Jenny barnard from Tasmania

October 19, 24

Kristel Thornel, co-winner of 09 Vogel, on Night streets, portrait of Clarice Beckett; Richard Glover on The Mud House and Ghost Child by Caroline Overington reviewed

October 12, 17

Emily Maguire on third novel Smoke in the Room; Stephanie Hester reads from novel set in Singapore, Hungry Ghosts

October 5, 10

Part of new novel, Till Sunday by David Sornig; Anson Cameron on Stealing Picasso and John Boyne from Ireland on the House of Special Purpose

September 28, Oct 3

Visiting US writer Reif Larsen on his creation TS Spivet; Gillian Dooley reviews Crim and Spiel, and Liz Bryski talks about Bad Behaviour, her fourth novel about women of a certain age

September 21, 26

Adelaide writer Michael X Savvas reads from his hard-boiled Port Adelaide crime novel Shamejob; Ken Bolton reviews latest poetry collections of Pam Brown (True thoughts) and Rae Desmond-Jones

September 14, 19

Australian crime writer Kathryn Fox on her mission and latest book, Blood Born; Steven Lang on his 88 Lines about 44 Women

September 7, 12

Review of The Children's writer, by Gary Crew; Lauren Lovett's story Kids who Kick Dogs; poems by Victorian John West read by Max Hicks

August 31. September 5

Ruth Starke examines NZ Alison Wong's As the Earth Turns; MJ Hyland on her new one, this is How. James Phelan on the new outing for his PI Lachlan Fox, Liquid Gold, set in India

August 24, 29

Victorian author Bruce Pascoe on new novel about indigenous/Oz mens' business, Bloke; Nikki Marcel talks to the editors about new collection of Australian Womens Poetry Motherlode and Jill Jones reads her poem in it

August 17, 22

Tim Sinclair reads new poems from Sydney; reviews of Superbia and Black Dust Dancing by Philip Hui and Tracy Crisp. Serhat Caradee talks about writing Cedar Boys, his film about young Lebanese outsiders

August 10, 15

Morris Gleitzman on his new book for kids, Grace, and Marele Day about her new book set in Japan, The Sea Bed

August 3, 8

Lesley Jorgensen reads 'Deirdre', from Anglo-Bangladeshi epic-in-progress; 'Bad Skin', part of a journal-novel by Molly Guy

July 27, August 1

reviews of Brian Castro's Bath Fugues and Nick Earl's True Story of Butterfish; Catherine Therese on her memoir The Weight of Silence; Domenico Cacciola on The Second Father, a memoir of life in corrupt 70s Queensland police

July 20, 25

Tartan Noir star Stuart MacBride on new grisly Aberdeen novel Blind Eye; Valerie Parv's Heart and Craft, on the art of romance writing, discussed

July 13, 18

Poems by Kevin Gilman (WA) and Louise Crisp (Vic) read by Lesley Jorgensen; Review of Craig Sylvie's Jasper Jones; Valerie Volk reads from and discusses poems of love and loss: In Due Season

July 6, 11

SF author Peter Ball on unicorn-vampire novella Horn; Review of The Sweet and Simple Kind by Yasmin Gooneratne; George Alexander on novel Slow Burn; Review of Morris in Iceland by Alex Jones

June 29, July 4

Lesley Jorgensen reads some of Nicola Haywood's novel Cult of Dead Larry; Ron Phillips, travelling UK poet, reads and talks

June 22, 27

Fran Cusworth on new novel Hopetoun wives, set in mining town in WA; Review of Wendy Harmer's Roadside Sisters. Dom Knight of Chaser fame on first book, Disco Boy

June 15, 20

Play by Wayne Anthoney called Never a drop to drink, performed by Wayne Anthoney and Jenn Havelberg

June 8, 13

Author of Brick Lane, Monica Ali, on new novel In the Kitchen; PM Award for Literature winner Steven Conte on The Zookeeper's War. Deborah Forster on debut domestic drama The Book of Emmett.

une 1, 6

Martin Johnson reads from Full Glasses Pay Wages (in Gawler pubs); Vivienne Glance reads from new WA poems and anthology Amber Contains the Sun

May 25, 29

Writer of speculative fiction on big advance-earner steampunk novel Worldshaker; Gillian Dooley on Kate Legge's The Marriage Club and Nick Rothwell's The Red Highway. David Burke on The Body at the Melbourne Club (forgotten Antarctic explorer Bertram Armytage)

May 18, 23

Marion Steinmetz's Tasmanian tale, Leaving Home. Victorian poet Claire Gaskin reads new work and a short story by Lesley Jorgensen

May 11, 16

Tasmanian poet Karen Knight reads from Postcards from the Asylum; Stephen Orr's Irish troubles story, The Confirmation

May 4, 9

David Metzenthen on Jarvis 24 and Cliff Hardy on Deep Water

April 27, May 2

Gillian Dooley looks at JR Carroll's Lost Life, and Sonya Orchard's The Virtuoso; Garry Disher talks about the fifth Destry and Chandler crime novel, Blood Moon; David Malouf on his take on a bit of Homer, Ransom

April 20, 25

Performance poems with sounds from Ghostboy (David Stavanger, from Brisbane) and some intriguing poems from a sequence called A Taste of Apple by James Laidler; reviews of Marion Halligan's new novel, Valley of Grace, and After the Fall

April 13, 18

Dog Boy, new from Eva Hornung(Sallis) and Butterfly, from Sonya Hartnett, reviewed. Ross Gibson on his excursion The Summer Exercises and Katherine Scholes on The Hunter's Wife

April 6, 11

Very different poets: emerging author Teri Louise Kelly (read by Cath Kenneally) and the unique Eric Beach reading his own work

March 30, April 4

Kaz Cooke with a call for help fromwomen in putting together new book Women's Stuff; debut author Myfanwy Jones on The Rainy Season. Graham Catt and Amelia Walker on new poetry collections

March 22, 28

Cathy Young (SA) reading from her verse novel in progress and Jean kent (Qld) with a suite called Visiting Lithuania

March 15, 21 2009

Jenny Pattrick, bestseller NZ author of historical fiction, on the Deniston series; Gillian Dooley on new books, Siddon Rock and Handpicked. Lisa Evans on The Family Tree and Lisa Heidke on Lucy Springer Gets Even

End of 2008 progams

December 15, 20

more books for the Christmas hols. reviewed by Gillian Dooley and Ruth Starke: Amy Bodossian reads two poems and Fiona McGregor discusses Strange Museums. Linda Olsson (NZ) on Sonata for Miriam

December 8, 13

Pam Brown, NSW poet, on her new book True Thoughts; Peter Goldsworthy on new novel Everything I Knew

December 1, 6

Melbourne poet Bel Schenk with poems from her first book, Ambulances and Dreamers; Macao-based Australian poet Kit Kelen reads new work

November 24, 29

Robert Dessaix wanders round with Andre Gide in Arabesques; Robert Drewe's The Rip: Roberta Taylor, Gina Gold from The Bill, on her novel, The Reinvention of Ivy Brown

November 17, 22

Richard Flanagan: Wanting; review of The Slap (Tsiolkas) and Vertigo (Lohrey), plus Mrs McAllister's Ghost, a meaty one for kids

November 10, 15

Kate Grenville on her The Lieutenant; poems by Jayne Fenton Keane (Qld); Michael Meehan on new French novel, Deception

November 3, 8

Peter Pugsley reads short fiction; reviews of The Murderous Thumb, for kids, and Sea of Many Returns (Arnold Zable)

October 27, November 1

David Hill on 1788; Amanda Tabberer's The Amalfi Coast; Melanie la Brooy's The Baby Moon; Jumaadi, Indonesian storyteller

October 20, 25

Reviews of three books, by Matt Howard, Tom Gilling and Wendy James. Michele di Bartolo on The Sicilian Kitchen, not a recipe book

October 13, 18

Lily Hibberd's artwork Endless Summer's accompanying monologue, Sunglasses; review of Malla Nunn's A beautiful place to die

October 6, 11

Kate Atkinson, UK author of Behind the Scenes at the British Museum, on When will there be good news?; review of The country I came through last, by Robert Gray and Camilla Nelson on Crooked, a novel about wicked 60s Sydney

September 29, Oct 4

Anna Zagala reads new filmscript; Jessica Tong (Qld): Russian poems read by Ela Smith; review of Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide

September 22, 27

Mark Billingham (UK) on In the Dark, and Michael Robotham (Aus) on Bombproof, two London crime novels; review of The Sinkings by Amanda Curtin

September 15, 20

Jill Jones (NSW) reads new poems; Carol le Fevre on second novel If You Were Mine

September 8, 13

Michael Veitch: Fly, interviews with WW11 pilots; Susan Johnson's new novel reviewed; Guide to Birds of East Africa, by Nicholas Drayson

September 1, 7

John Hughes reads from and talks about Someone Else, fictional essays: winner of innovative writing award Adelaide Festival 08; William McInnes' That'd be Right reviewed; Jena Woodhouse with Qld. poems

August 25, 30

Adib Khan on his latest, Spiral Road, about a Bangladeshi-Australian's return home; John Marsden's Hamlet, a novel, reviewed; Two for the Road, Amanda Hampson's next after the Olive Sisters, discussed

August 18,24

Ruth Starke and Greg Holdfeld talk about collaborating on graphic novel Captain Congo and the Crocodile King; Phillip Gwynne, author of Deadly Unna, on his adult crime novel The Build-up, set in Darwin

August 11, 16

Rosie Jones, Australian expat living in Connecticut, reads a story: The Cabinet Maker; Ruth Starke reviews The Pages by Murray Bail

August 4, 9

Gillian Dooley on Anne de Lisle's The Swim Club; Nam Le, author of The Boat; Ruth Starke looks at The Nearly Happy Family; review of CS Richardson, The End of the Alphabet

July 28, August 2

Mike Ladd reads poems from his transit of the River Torrens; Patrizio Munoz with a magic-realist plague story

July 21, 26

Kate Jennings talks about Stanley and Sophie, a tale of two dogs, which Ruth Starke reviews. Matt Rubinstein on the fortunes of A Little Rain on thursday; Geoff Law's stories of the Franklin Dam campaign, The River runs Free

July 14, 19

Live reads of new work by poet Ken Bolton and poet/novelist Cath Kenneally (reading from Simon Says). Review of Sex, Knives and Bouillabaisse

July 7, 12

Two crime novelists discuss their demons and their writing: UK thriller writer Mo Hayder (latest: Ritual) and newest Oz voice, author of Vodka doesn't freeze and now Voodoo Dolls, Leah Giarratano, trauma psychiatrist. Reviews of The Retreaters and a Burqa and a Hard Place

June 30, July 5

Review of The Seance, John Harwood; Jan Owen reads from her Poems 1980-2008 and discusses her writing life

June 23,28

Review of Marion Halligan's Murder on the Apricot Coast; Peter Ho Davies on The Welsh Girl; Cath McKinnon on The Nearly Happy Family and review of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

June 16, 21

NZ poet Gregory O'Brien with original new poems; Brian Castro reads from Bath Fugues, a novel in progress; review of Luke Davies' God of Speed

June 9, 14

Two women memoirists who approach childhood traumas very differently: Judith Lucy on The Lucy Family Alphabet and Kathleen Stewart on The After Life

June 2, 7

Eva Sallis reads 'Abattoir'; Nicola Haywood with novel excerpt 'back out on that road again; Janet charman discusses her classroom poems

May 26, 31

Lee Tulloch, one-time fashion writer, on a modern Liaisons Dangereuses, The Woman in the Lobby. Gillian Dooley reviews Germaine Greer's Shakespeare's Wife. Stuart Macbride, new prince of Tartan Noir, on Flesh House

May 19, 24

New Zealand poets Jenny Bornholdt and Janet Charman read new work exclusively for Writers Radio

May 12, 17

Linda Grant, UK author of The Clothes on Their Backs, a guest at Adelaide Writers Week, discusses and reads from her novel; Julia Leigh, author of the Hunter and now of a novella, Disquiet, talks about its gothic charm. Review of The Landscape of Desire, by Kevin Rabalais

May 5, 10

Two winners of Adelaide Festival Literary Awards, playwright Duncan Graham and novelist Stephen Orr

April 28, May 3

Garry Disher, author lately of the Challis and Destry crime novels set in Victoria; review of Farmwoman, verse novel by Ray Tyndale; Rachel Hennessy on first novel The Quakers

April 21, 26

Two new voices, Bern Smith reading August, a story; Kyriaki Maragozidis with poems about her heritage; hear a review of another mother-daughter novel, Rosie Dub's the Gathering Storm

April 14, 19

Joan London, author of Gilgamesh, on her next one,l the Good Parents; John Harwood on The Seance, Victorian-Gothic delectable

April 7, 12

Irmina van Niele, visual artist, reads from her poetic thesis on Gathering Loss; Gillian Dooley on Garner's new book, Spare Room and Peter Carey's His Illegal Self; Ouyang Yu reading live from his many publications

March 31, April 5

Stefan Lasczuk on his Vogel winner, soon-to-be-novel I Dream of Magda; review of Ann Whitehead's Australia Street; American author of What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt, on her new novel The Sorrows of an American; Emma McEwin on An Antarctic Affair, about her great grandparents the Mawsons.

March 24, 29

Mike Ladd, host of RN's Poetica, reads from new poems in In Transit; Felix Kelly, from Deadly Comedy at Adelaide Fringe; reviews of Charlotte Wood's The Children and Mireille Juchau's Burning-In

March 17, 22

Three Writers Week 2008 star guests talk: Bill Manhire, NZ inaugural poet laureate; Denise Mina, Glasgow crime fiction queen and Georgia Blain (Births, Deaths, Marriages)

December 17, 22 (2007)

Mark Thompson on his new book, Henry Hoke, Inventor of Genius; review of Lian Hearn's Heaven's Net is Wide; Kerry Greenwood on A Question of Death, a Phryne Fisher treasury; Lu Cunxin on The Peasant Prince, a children's version of Mao's last Dancer

December 10, 15

Gillian Dooley on Luck in the Greater West by Damien McDonald; Ruth Starke on Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea. jane Williams, of Hobart, reads new poems as does Chris Moran of Salisbury, SA

December 3, 8

Tracy Crisp reviews The Low Road (Chris Walmsley) and Broken by Ilsa Evans; David Brooks on first novel the Fern Tattoo; Gillian Dooley considers Matt Condon's The Trout Opera and Susan Medalia: History of the Beanbag. Bryce Courtenay on The Persimmon Tree

November 26, December 1

Special AIDS Awareness Week program of stories from a group of HIV-affected women, Songs in the Blood

November 19, 24

Ian Rankin and Monica McInerney discuss their latest books

November 12, 17

Justin Lowe on verse novel The Great Big Show; Mark Siebert reads Fan Letters, a compilation of texts that make up an art exhibition

November 5, 10

Stephen Dando-Collins talks about Captain Bligh's Other Mutiny. Reviews of Other Country by Stephen Scourfield, The River Baptists and Power Plays

Oct 29, Nov 3

Oct 22, 27

Oct 15, 20

Oct 8, 13

Oct 1, 6

Sep 24, 29

Sep 17, 22

Sep 10, 15

Sep 3, 8

August 27, Sep 1

August 20, 25

August 13, 18

August 6, 11

July 30, August 4

July 23, 28

Janette Turner Hospital on Orpheus Lost; Matt Rubinstein on A Little Rain on Thursday; review from Gillian Dooley of Opportunity

July 16, 21

Petra White reads a short sequence from The Incoming Tide; Sean Kelly, Hobart poet reads and chats; Jeri Kroll reads from verse novel-in-progress, Vanishing Point

July 9, 14

Paddy O'Reilly and Charlotte Grimshaw on their short story collections, The End of the World and Opportunity; review of Shattered, new Gemma Kincaid novel from Gabrielle Lord

July 2, 7

Gillian Britton reads a story published in Wet Ink magazine; Lydia Laube on her travelogue, Is this the way to Madagascar?; Stephen Lawrence with some inyourface poems

June 25, 30

Meg Rosoff, US childrens' writer, on new novel Just In Case; review of Angelo Loukakis' the Memory of Tides; Sophie Gee on pseudo-C18th novel, The Scandal of the Season; review of Rosie Little by Danielle Wood

June 18, 23

Nick Jose reads a story of the West (Sydney); Kurt Brereton performs his piece We are a Movie and Caroline Horn reads from novel in progress Sleepy Lizard

14: June 11, 15``

Shane Maloney on the new Murray Whelan, Sucked In; Rachel Seiffert (UK) on Afterwards; review of A Curious Intimacy, first novel from Jessica White

13: June 4, 8

Paul Hetherington on his new collection of poems, reviews of The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles and Nights in the Asylum; chat with Steven Hall, author of The Raw Shark Texts (UK)

12: May 28, June 1

Ailsa Dunlop, winner of Young Guns new playwrights award, reads two of her winning monologues, in the voices of Victoria and Charlotte

11: May 21, 26

Adib Khan, born in Bangladesh and resident here for thirty years, on his latest, Spiral Road; Michael Robotham, Londoner turned Sydneysider, on his third thriller, The Night Ferry

10: May 14, 19

Nicola Hayward's Run with me if you dare, from The Cult of Dead larry, read by David Jobling; Miriel Lenore reads from her new book of botanical gardens poems, In the Garden

9: May 7, 11

Kim Kelly on her coal-country WWI Australian saga, Black Diamonds; Stephen Reed, Bega poet, reads some work; Leigh Redhead on the latest Simone Kirsch, PI and Stripper novel, Cherry Pie

8: April 30, May 5

Two young Adelaide authors read new fiction: Shannon Burns and Alexandra Weaver

7: April 23, 28

Review by Gillian Doley of Rodney Hall's Love Without Hope and Andrea Mayes' Shearwater; Sarah Hopkins, ex-solicitor, on her novel The Crimes of Billy Fish; Ruth Starke considers F Scott, Ernest and Me (tony Davis) and Not Meeting Mr Right (anita Heiss)

6: April 16, 21

Andrea Mayes on her second novel, Shearwater, set in a seaside Australian town; Christobel Mattingley on Battle Order 204, her husband's story of being a WWII Bomber Pilot.

5: April 9, 14

Playwright and performer Kate McLennan with some of The Debutante Diaries, hit of Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe Festivals

4: April 2, 7

Marina Lewycka from UK on Two Caravans, follow-up to Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine; Ruth Starke on Eileen Naseby's memoir, Ursula; Judith Wright's daughter on editing her mother's letters (With Love and Fury)

3: March 26, 31

Kahil Jureidini and Bel Shenk read new work live in Adelaide; Ruth Starke reviews Gabrielle Carey's So Many Selves

2: March 19, 24

Tom Keneally's latest, The Widow and her Hero, reviewed; Jill Golden on her novel-memoir about her mother, Inventing Beatrice; Geoff Sparrow on the life of Guido Baracci, told in Communism, a Love Story

1: March 12, 17

2006/7 Writers Radio

Summer Repeats December 2006, January 2007

6: Jan 30, Feb 4

Eva Sallis from her wolf-boy story; Les Wicks with new work

5: Jan 23, 28

Vikram Seth and Linda Jaivin

4: Jan 16, 21

Bel Schenk, Jordan D'Arcie and Simon Robb read live

3: Jan. 2, 7

Full program special on Les Murray and The Biplane Houses

2: Dec. 25, 30

Review of The Apricot Colonel (Marion Halligan), MJ Hyland on Carry Me Down and Val McDermid on a literary crime

1: Dec 18, 23

Passarola Rising, by Azhir Abidi and The Night Watch (Sarah Waters)

END OF NEW PROGRAMS 06

0640 (Dec 11, 16)

Richard Flanagan on the Unknown Terrorist; Patrick Allington on new literary journal Etchings and Alexandra Weaver (winner Independent Youth Arts Scholarship) on her manuscript/novel The End of Knowing Everything

0639 (Dec 4, 9)

Sonia Dechian reads some of her new manuscript Anthems for Before; Chris Andrews' new poems and one from Maggie Ball (from her new Quark Soup book)

0638 (Nov 27, Dec 2)

Donald Friend's letters vol. 4 described by editor Paul Hetherington; Dorothy Porter on her editing of Best Australian Poems 2006; Bryce Courtenay on why he set 'Sylvia', his latest, at the time of the Children's Crusade

0637 (Nov 20, 25)

Gillian Dooley reviews Don Watson's The Wayward Tourist and Alexis Wright's new novel, Carpentaria; new poems by Qld poet Frances Rouse

0636 (Nov 13, 18)

Ruth Starke on Drawing the Crow (Adrian Mitchell), a South Australian memoir: Richard Allen on The Kamikaze Mind (plus read); Patrick Marnham: Wild Mary (Mary Wesley)

0635 (Nov 6, 11)

Stephen Lawrence with monologues and a poem; Peter Rose from Rattus Rattus and new poems

0634 (Oct 30, Nov 4)

Graeme Base on Uno's Garden; Allnighter from Cardigan Press; review of Kate Legge's Unexpected Elements

0633 (Oct 23, 28)

A story called Gravy and Tragedy, by Margaret Pomfret (Vic); Carol Jenkins (Sydney) reads two foody poems; John Jenkins (Vic) reads new work at a live reading

0632 (Oct 16, 21)

Vicky Archer talks about the sumptuous book from Lantern My French Life (hers, in fact); Shannon Burns talks about a new mag called Staples and we hear some of a reading by contributors; Valerio Manfredi on Empire of Dragons, set in 3rd Century AD

0631 (Oct 9, 14 )

Sam Wagan Watson on his trip with the Ghantastic Writers tour; reviews of Odd One Out by Monica McInerney and Andrew O'Connor's Tuvalu; Rob Walker talks about his first book, Micro Macro, poems of the large and small

0630 (Oct 2, 7)

Jasper Fforde, author of the Thursday Next and Jack Spratt series of literary and nursery craziness, on his latest, The Fourth Bear; Mark Bowling on his memoir, Running Amok, about being a journalist in Indonesia and Timor; Forgotten Valour, the life of Arthur Sullivan VC.

0629 (25, 30 Sep)

New writing from Ros Prosser, Jeff Guess and Ray Liversidge

0628 (18, 23 Sep)

Two thriller writers, Robert Goddard and James Phelan, on their new books; new writer Andrea Jorss reads

0627 (11. 16 Sep)

An Iranian poet reads work in Adelaide; Alice Garner talks about her Student Chronicles on Melbourne Uni days; Robert Wilson (UK) on his Seville stories and a song from Tin Pan Alley

0626 (4, 9 Sep)

Two books for kids, Sofie Laguna's Bird and sugar Boy, which she reads from, and Tom Skinner's Round Fish Square Bowl; four books of poetry reviewed by Moya Costello

0625 (29 Aug, 2 Sep)

0624 (21, 26 Aug)

0623 (14. 19 Aug)

0622 (7, 12 Aug)

0621 (B/X 1, 5 August)

0620 (broadcast July 24, 29 Radio Adelaide)

0619 (broadcast July 17, 22 RA)

0618 (broadcast July 10, 15 RA)

Two stories with a biographical flavour: Naomi Horridge reads The Grange and Linda Marie Walker a short piece called Up North, both recorded at Lee Marvin Readings in Adelaide

0617 (broadcast July 3, 8 RA)

Vikram Seth talks about his memoir of a great aunt and uncle, Two Lives; Linda Jaivin on the perils of Zeki as described in The Infernal Optimist, set in a detention centre

0616 (broadcast June 26, 1 July RA)

Mike Ladd reads some New Guinea poems and others; Moya Costello with an excerpt from her paratextual work, Harriet Chandler

0615 (19, 24 June RA)

Gillian Bouras on No Time for Dances; Sonia Harford, Leaving Paradise, expats' stories and review of Candle Life by Venero Armanno

0614 (June 12, 17 RA)

Join the audience at the Lee Marvin readings, organised by Ken Bolton: Hear Bel Shenk and Jordan D'Arcie read new poems, and Simon Robb read from a fiction starring Jane Fonda

0613 (June 5, 10 RA)

A special young folks' program: R uth Starke reviews Ian Bone's Love Cuts for young adults, and the author talks about it too. Felice Arena, author of Specky Magee, on the Legend in the Making. Sam Franzway looks at Sweet Guy.

0612 (May 29, June 3 RA)

Rachel Hennessy reads from manuscript novel The Quakers, about teens in the Newcastle earthquake. Colin Cotterill, creator of Laotian State Coroner Dr Siri, on the Coroner's Lunch

0611 (May 22, 27 RA)

Kathryn Fox on forensic thriller Without Consent; Kathy Lette on How to Kill Your Husband

0610

The Last Explorer and Many Lifetimes, two life stories, reviewed; Ryan Paine reads his story Psychological Flatulence, and Luke Davies on his prize winning poetry book Totem

0609

Andrew Taylor, UK author of The American Boy; Justin Lowe reads from a new verse novel on WW11; Todd Alexander's first novel reviewed by Ruth Starke

0608:

Special half hour devoted to Les Murray reading from and discussing with Cath Kenneally his new collection The Biplane Houses

0607:

Ruth Starke reviews Marion Halligan's The Apricot Colonel; MJ Hyland talks about Carry Me Down. Val McDermid talks about her latest at Writers Week Adelaide

0606:

Tracy Crisp reads some of her new novel, Black Dust Dancing, set in an industrial regional town. Ray Tyndale reviews Antigone Kefala's Three Novellas, and Jude Aquilina's On a Moon Spiced Night

0605:

Azhir Abidi on Passarola Rising, a fantastical tale of the first flying ship; Sarah Waters on her new one, Night Watch, and other highlights in her meteoric career, from Writers Week 2006 in Adelaide

0604:

Jared Thomas, young indigenous novelist and playwright, on his latest, Sweet Guy; Peter Goldsworthy on Honk if You are Jesus on stage; Gillian Dooley reviews the new Goldsworthy book of short stories

0603:

Sue Brame reads a comic monologue, Chocky; Divinyls Chrissie Amphlett talks about the Pleasure and the Pain, her autobiography, and Richard Tipping reads poems at Friendly Street's 30th

0602:

Bryce Coutenay talks about his latest, autobiographical South African novel, Whitethorn. Judith Ahmed reads diaspora poems; Sam Franzway reviews Tim Sinclair's Nine Hours North, a verse novel

0601:

Bob Barrett, author of the latest Les Norton knock'emdown thriller, Crime Scene Cessnock; Steve Evans introduces the 30th Birthday bash for Friendly Street, and poets read; Paul Morgan on The Pelagius Book

Summer Repeats: from Dec 19 for 12 weeks,

3 (19, 23/12: Jennifer Maiden)

5 (26, 31/12, Nicola Haywood story),

7 (2, 7/1/06: Angela Costi and poetry reviews),

13 (9, 14/1: Martin Johnson special),

14 (16, 21/1: Marg Vandeleur, Mem Fox),

16 (23, 28/1: Short story, Pieter),

18 (30/1, 2/2: Kate Llewellyn),

21 (6, 11/2: Devil's Companions, Stella Duffy),

24 (13. 18/2: Tim Moore, Monica McInerney, Ryan Paine),

28 (20, 25/2: Kate Grenville),

34 (27/2, 3/3: Meg Mundell story, Jude Aquilina poems),

22 (6, 11/3: Friendly Street and Chris Mansell, Eva Sallis)

END new programs 2005

WR 05 40, Dec 12, 17

A complete radio play, Just Like That, written and directed by Stephen House and performed by Jacqui Philips, Don Barker and Roger Newcombe

WR 05 39, Dec 5, 10

A full-length feature, Joanne Davis performing her adaptation of Dorothy Porter's The Monkey's Mask, with live bass accompaniment from Bruce Millar

WR 05 38, Nov 28, Dec 3

Dorothy Johnson on The House at Number 10, a novel about suburban prostitution; Ruth Starke reviews Robert Drewe's Grace; Peter Corris on The Journal of Fletcher Christian

WR 05 37, Nov 21, 26

Alexander McCall Smith on his latest Sunday Philosophy Club book; Vanessa Gorman on Layla's Story, the book, and John Malone reads some of his children's poems

WR 05 36, Nov 14, 19

Peter Rose on his brittle social satire; a review of Sunnyside by Joanna Murray-Smith; Adrian D'Hage on Omega Scroll and Ruth Starke reviews Velocity by Mandy Sayer

WR 05 35, Nov 7, 12

Josiane Behmoiras on her memoir, Dora B; Brenda Walker on The Wing of Night; Sarah Watt, filmmaker and writer of Look Both Ways

WR 05 34, Oct 31, Nov 5

Short story, Ten, by Meg Mundell; Jude Aquilina on writing poetry for wine labels (with some examples); Gabrielle Lord on her latest, Dirty Weekend

WR 05 33, Oct 24, 29

Elizabeth Knox of Vintner's Luck fame on her new one, Dreamhunter; Anne Brooksbank on Mother's Day, about a difficult choice for a 12 year old girl

WR 05 32, Oct 17, 22

Stephen Booth, UK crime writer, on The Dead Place; Heather Goodall on winning a Magarey medal for biography, not footy; a review of Brian Castro's The Garden Book

WR 05 31, Oct 10, 15

Four poets reflect on crime and justice, novelist Shalini Akhil on The Bollywood Beauty (Fijian style); review of The Musician's Son by Sandy McCutcheon

WR 05 30, Oct 3, 8

Gillian Slovo on Ice Road, set in pre WW11 Moscow; Gillian Dooley reviews it; Christos Tsiolkas on Dead Europe, which took seven years to write.

WR 29, Sep 27, Oct 1

repeat of Grenville, Prater, Sometimes

WR 05 28, Sep 19, 24

Kate Grenville on The Secret River. Poems from The Red Room Epic project from David Prater and Alicia Sometimes

WR 05 27, Sep 12, 17

Diat Alferink on her one-woman play, Wakaid Girl; Wellington poet Greg O'Brien, successful writer of romance novels, Lucy Clark

WR 05 26, Sep 5, 10

Fabienne Bayet-Charlton, an indigenous writer mentored by Kate Grenville, on her Watershed; Anita Heiss on the SA Indigenous Writers Festival. Poems by Justin Lowe

WR 05 25, August 29, Sep 3

A treat from Melbourne: a live reading to mark the 20th anniversary of La Mama Poetica, featuring perhaps the last recording of Shelton Lea reading his work, Kris Hemensley, publisher and owner of Collected Works, and Robyn Rowland, among others

WR 05 24, August 22, 27

Tim Moore, famous Brit travel writer, on staying home and travelling the Monopoly squares; Monica McInerney on Family Baggage, her latest and Ryan Paine with a rude boys' story called The Protuberance

WR 05 23, August 15, 20

An Oxford University Press How to Read series discussed by Annemarie Young, editor; Chasing Charlie Duskin, for teens, reviewed and Andy Griffiths' All Fast Food and No Play talked up by the trim author

WR0522:August 8, 13

Deb Zott reviews two Friendly Street Poets collections; Chris Mansell reads new poems and a review of The Marsh Birds, by Eva Sallis

WR0521: August 1,6

John Misto, fascinated by the Catholic Church, pens a gripping thriller, The Devil's Companions; Amelia Walker performs out-there spoken words; Stella Duffy on Parallel Lies, a fame and corruption crime-crossover set in Hollywood.

Wr0520: July 25, 30

Ruth Starke reviews Marion Hume's The Fashion Pack; Melanie la Brouy on her new volume of smart chicklit: The Wish List; a grittily real woman's story: Call me Elizabeth, an escort's story, by Dawn Annandale.

WR0519: July 18, 23

Nicholas Shakespeare on his In Tasmania; one-time colleague Alan Hollinghurst on his Booker winner, The Line of Beaurty. Jenny Pausacker's latest for teens reviewed.

WR0518: July 11, 16

Kate Llewellyn on her new and unique book, Playing with Water; Gillian Dooley reviews Kate; Miriel Lenore talks about her grandmothers project and the latest book of poems, The Dog Rock

WR0517: July 4, 9

All Things Bright and Beautiful, Susan Mitchell on her Snowtown murders book, also reviewed by Gillian Dooley; review of Anne Bartlett's 'Knitting'

WR0516: June 27, July 2

Short Story, Pieter, by Helen Brett (WA)

WR0515: June 20, 25

Michael Robotham on Loot, successor to best-selling The Suspect; Marion Hume talks up her fashion-world blockbuster and a rap from Adelaide star hip-hopster.

WR0514: June 13, 18

Marg Vandeleur tells about The Catch, a story about ways of having babies, with a review by Ruth Starke; Mem Fox on her latest in the long line since Possum Magic, Hunwick's Egg; songs from The Audreys

WR0513: June 6, 12

A special program devoted to Martin Johnson, one-time axeman turned poet, with readings of new work

WR0512: May 30, June 4

Eric Hansen talks about The Bird Man and The Lap Dancer; a review of Forever Shores, Oz fantasy anthology; Andrea Mayes on The Rose Notes, a first novel set in the Riverland

WR0511: May 23, 28

Geradine Brooks on her book, March, sequel to Little Women; Taryn Plett on the Original Million Dollar Mermaid and Virginia Hausegger, journalist, on her book Wonder Woman (the myth of having it all

WR0510: May 16, 21

Jill Gloyne on being a Kangaroo Island poet and reading new work; Ruth Starke on A Life By Design (Florence Broadhurst's life); Adrian Rogers on The Time Tunnel and the Grail and publishing e-fantasy

WR0509: May 9, 14

Kidslit authors Janeen Brian and Greg Holdfeld on The Super Parp Buster; review of Lynne Minion's Hello Missus and Mike Dumbleton of Dial-a-Croc fame on his recent work for kids

WR0508: May 2, 7

Andy Griffiths on The Bad Book for kids; John West - new divorce and hospital poems read by Max Hicks; Robert Parsons on Morgan Perry's Luck, about the perils of a Catholic schoolboy

WR0507: April 25, 30

Cypriot-Australian poems by Angela Costi from Victoria; Ray Tyndale reviews Songs of a Learning Man (Anthony Lawrence) and Judith Beveridge's Wolf Notes; Richard Zimmler on his Portuguese-Jewish bestseller, Hunting Midnight

WR0506: April 18, 23

Poems by Bondi poet Les Wicks; Teri Janke's Butterfly Song reviewed by Taryn Plett and described by the author

WR0505: April 11, 16

A story, World War 24, by Nicola Haywood. Emmett Stinson describes the story that won The Age competition last year

WR0504: April 4, 9

Reviews of Tom Shapcott's new novel, Spirit Wrestlers, and Stephen Orr's Hill of Grace. Jenny Barnard with poems from Tas. Ken Hall on What Next, You Bastards?

WR0503: March 28, April 2

A program devoted to a discussion with one of the country's foremost poets, Jennifer Maiden

WR0502: March 21, 26

A short story, Cows do Sleep Standing Up, by Ryan Paine; review of Cassandra Austen's first novel, Seeing George, and Helen Halstead on her continuation of Pride and Prejudice, A Private Performance

WR0501: March 14, 19

Shane Maloney on the delights of The Happy Phrase; Taryn Plett reviews and Estelle Pinney describes writing The House on the Hill. 'Fruit' sing a song.

Summer Repeat #12, March 7, 12

Feb 28

Feb 21, 26

Feb 14, 19

Feb 7, 12

Jan 31, Feb 5

Jan 24, 29

Jan 17, 22

Jan 10, 15

Jan 3, 8, 2005

Summer Repeat #2, Dec 27, Jan 1 2005

Salaam Pax, Baghdad Blogger; Nadar Jarrar and Judy Horacek

Summer Repeat #1, Dec. 20, 25

Ray Tyndale's Farmwoman poems; Meg Merrilees' The Laboratory; Reginald Hill on Andy Dalziel

0440: Dec 13, 18

Ken Bolton reads new poems; Moya Sayer Jones tells all about her Love Rat

0439: Dec 6, 11

Nicholas Shakespeare In Tasmania; Sue Pieters Hawke on Hazel's Journey; Geoff Goodfellow, poet of the factory floor

0438: Nov 29, Dec 4

Linda Marie Walker and John Jenkins (Vic) read live in Adelaide from new long poems

0437: Nov 22, 27

Editors of The Body anthology from Wakefield Press; Don Watson on Weasel Words and Graeme Base's new one, Jungle Drums

0436: Nov 15, 20

Live readings by two great poets, Pam Brown (Sydney) and Mark Garnet (SA) at the Iris Cinema, Adelaide

0435: Nov 8, 13

Best kids' authors, Sonya Hartnett and Odo Hirsch, on their respective latests, The Silver Donkey and Will Buster; Tobsha Learner on steamy stories in Tremble; Xinran - Sky Burial

0434: Nov 1, 6

Full length special devoted to Melbourne Aust.-Chinese poet Ouyang Yu, reading and talking

0433: Oct 25, 30

Christine Allen reads from novel in progress, Tripping; Gillian Dooley looks at Rodney Halls' Last Love Story and Sean Williams on latest fantasy, the Crooked Letter

0432: Oct 18, 23

0431: Oct 11, 16

Nick Earls latest, Thompson Gunner, Matt Howard, Street Furniture, discussed and read, review of Georgia Blain's Names for Nothingness

0430: October 4, 9

Marion Halligan on the Taste of Memory; a review of After Life, Don Denoon, and Charlotte Wood, Submerged Cathedral

0429: Sep. 27, Oct. 2

Three poems by Rachael Munro from Sydney; Tony Bugeja reads from the novel soon to appear from Wakefield Press

0428: Sep. 20, 25

Nicky Gemmell, touring the country reminding us of Shiver, a Books Alive choice. Gail Jones on her latest, Sixty Lights.

0427: Sep. 13, 18

Geoff McGeachin on Fat, Fifty and F***d, winner of a popular fiction contest last year; Jenny Kemp, Australian playwright, on Still Angela; Gillian Dooley on two Jay Verney novels

0426: Sep. 6, 11

Stefan Laszczuk, winner of Unpublished Manuscript Award at Writers Week, reads from The Goddam Bus of Happiness.

0425: August 30, Sep. 4

Alwyn Evans on her refugee story, Walk in my Shoes; John Birmingham discusses his alternative history, Weapons of Choice; The Bright Planet by Peter Mews reviewed by Sukhmani Khorani.

0424: August 23, 28

Anne Bartlett reads from Knitting, to be published here and overseas in '05; Val Levcowicz, Melbourne playwright, on her play Valdorama.

0423: August 16, 21

Victoria's Sue Stanford reads 'Small' and talks about her poetry; Dave Metzenthen on Tiff and the Trout; a review of The Etched City by KJ Bishop.

0422: August 9, 14

John Fletcher on his Cloud Forest; Kate Jennings's Moral Hazard revisited and Ian Bone, author of Sleep Rough Tonight, his second for young adults. Lisa Forrest, commissioning editor of Good Reading, on the mag's third birthday.

0421: August 2, 7

Review of Georgia Blain's new book; Linda Aronson on Just Plain Rude; Eva Sallis talks about Fire, Fire and where her writing is taking her.

0420: July 26, 31

A look at John Birmingham's thriller, Weapons of Choice; Paul Collins on Dragonfang, latest in his trilogy; Doug MacLeod: Spiky, Spunky, my pet monkey; Gillian Dooley on Sophie Cunningham's Geography.

0419: July 19, 24

Melbourne poet Lisa Bellear reads at La Mama Poetica; Serpil Ural on her Turkish-Australian story Candles at Dawn; jeltje and Unamunos Quartet at La Mama reconciliation reading.

0418: July 12, 17

Salam Pax, the Baghdad Blogger, a guest at Sydney Writers Week, on his blog book and his rise to literary eminence. Gillian Dooley rates Somewhere Like Home, by Lebanese Australian Nawar Awar Jaddar. Lisa Bellear and jeltje read at a La Mama Poetica Reconciliation event in Melbourne.

0417: July 5,10

Morris Gleitzman, our most popular childrens' author, on his latest, Girl Overboard, twin to the earlier Boy Overboard, both with a refugee theme. Lauren Williams and Tony Birch, two Melbourne poets, read at a Reconciliation Reading at La Mama Poetica.

0416: June28, July 3

Christine Godwin, author of Minnie and the Superguys; Jeanette Winterson, novelist superstar, talking about her latest, Lighthousekeeping. Ruth Starke looks at A Private Man, by Malcolm Knox.

0415: June 21, 26

A whole program devoted to a conversation with UK author Hilary Mantel, Sydney Writers Week guest and winner of the Mind Book of the Year Prize (UK) for her memoir, Giving up the Ghost.

0414: June 14, 19

Erica Jolley, SA poet with some of her new collection, Pomegranates. Ruth Starke on Lydia Laube's latest in her popular travel series, Temples and Tuk Tuks. Andrea Levy on her novel of UK Jamaican-English relations, from Writers Week.

0413: June 7,12

Special feature: a story called The Camera Never Lies, by Annie Gleeson - a desert mystery, read by Angelina Edwards.

0412: May 31, June 5

Janette Turner Hospital at Adelaide Writers Week to talk about Due Preparations for the Plague, and Alistair MacLeod, Canadian short story writer and winner of IPAX Dublin Award for his only novel, No Great Mischief, also at Writers Week. Victorian poet John West with new work.

0411: May 28, 29

Short story, Stamp Man, by Patricia Darby of WA; Michael Robotham tells how a successful ghost writer scooped the pools with his first crime novel, The Suspect.

0410:: May 21, 22

Best selling Irish novelist Marian Keyes on her latest, The Other Side of the Story; Kate Fitzpatrick about her memoir on a life on stage and in the limelight

049: May 14, 15

Jane Goodall talks about The Walker, a cracker of a spooky first crime novel; Ruth Starke reviews Corrie Hosking's first novel Ash Rain, and Corrie talks about its genesis in bushfires.

048: May 7, 8

Stephen Orr, author of Attempts to Draw Jesus, on new manuscript, Hill of Grace. also Amanda Lohrey on long-awaited sequel to Camilla's Bread, The Philosopher's Doll.

047: April 29, 30

Reviews of new Australian novels, Top Bloke, Women on the Rocks, and Smokescreens and Searchlights. Also Ben Winch and Tim Sinclair on their concept album/verse novel, Brothers of the Head.

046: April 19, 24
Poet Adam Aitken reads new work. Novelist and author of Stasiland, Anna Funder. Crime novelist Caroline Shaw - all guests at 2004 Writers Week, Adelaide.

045: April 12, 17
Gillian Dooley reviews The Busdriver who Wanted to be God, by Writers Week guest Etgar Keret. Melbourne poet jeltje reading new work, and poems by Laurie Duggan, winner of the 2003 Victorian Premiers Award.

044:: April 5, 10
Ilsa Evans, author of Spin Cycle, discusses her newest, Drip Dry. John Harwood on his novel The Ghost Writer. a review of Night Letters by Robert Dessaix and a potted history of Writers Week.

043: March 29, April 3
Meg Merrilees talks about her family saga spanning three generations in Perth and England and reads some. Reginald Hill, creator of Dalziel and Pascoe, talks about his latest. Ray Tyndale with some 'Farmwoman' poems.

042: March 22, 27
Chris Tugwell, Adelaide playwright, about his play Xray, on Guantanamo Bay, written with the cooperation of the Hicks family and lawyer Stephen Kenny. Author Sonia Dechian reads some of her new novel, Hotel Rooms and Other Peoples' Beds.

Wr041: March 15, 20
Miriel Lenore reads poems from and discusses her new book of grandmother poems, Drums and Bonnets. Catherine Murphy on world recognition for her book on the history of the Adelaide Central Market. Sally Vickers, author of Miss Garnet's Angel, on Mr Golightly's Holiday.

Summer Repeat #12, March 7, 12

Feb 28

Feb 21, 26

Feb 14, 19

Feb 7, 12

Jan 31, Feb 5

Jan 24, 29

Jan 17, 22

Jan 10, 15

Jan 3, 8, 2005

Summer Repeat #2, Dec 27, Jan 1 2005

Salaam Pax, Baghdad Blogger; Nadar Jarrar and Judy Horacek

Summer Repeat #1, Dec. 20, 25

Ray Tyndale's Farmwoman poems; Meg Merrilees' The Laboratory; Reginald Hill on Andy Dalziel

0440: Dec 13, 18

Ken Bolton reads new poems; Moya Sayer Jones tells all about her Love Rat

0439: Dec 6, 11

Nicholas Shakespeare In Tasmania; Sue Pieters Hawke on Hazel's Journey; Geoff Goodfellow, poet of the factory floor

0438: Nov 29, Dec 4

Linda Marie Walker and John Jenkins (Vic) read live in Adelaide from new long poems

0437: Nov 22, 27

Editors of The Body anthology from Wakefield Press; Don Watson on Weasel Words and Graeme Base's new one, Jungle Drums

0436: Nov 15, 20

Live readings by two great poets, Pam Brown (Sydney) and Mark Garnet (SA) at the Iris Cinema, Adelaide

0435: Nov 8, 13

Best kids' authors, Sonya Hartnett and Odo Hirsch, on their respective latests, The Silver Donkey and Will Buster; Tobsha Learner on steamy stories in Tremble; Xinran - Sky Burial

0434: Nov 1, 6

Full length special devoted to Melbourne Aust.-Chinese poet Ouyang Yu, reading and talking

0433: Oct 25, 30

Christine Allen reads from novel in progress, Tripping; Gillian Dooley looks at Rodney Halls' Last Love Story and Sean Williams on latest fantasy, the Crooked Letter

0432: Oct 18, 23

0431: Oct 11, 16

Nick Earls latest, Thompson Gunner, Matt Howard, Street Furniture, discussed and read, review of Georgia Blain's Names for Nothingness

0430: October 4, 9

Marion Halligan on the Taste of Memory; a review of After Life, Don Denoon, and Charlotte Wood, Submerged Cathedral

0429: Sep. 27, Oct. 2

Three poems by Rachael Munro from Sydney; Tony Bugeja reads from the novel soon to appear from Wakefield Press

0428: Sep. 20, 25

Nicky Gemmell, touring the country reminding us of Shiver, a Books Alive choice. Gail Jones on her latest, Sixty Lights.

0427: Sep. 13, 18

Geoff McGeachin on Fat, Fifty and F***d, winner of a popular fiction contest last year; Jenny Kemp, Australian playwright, on Still Angela; Gillian Dooley on two Jay Verney novels

0426: Sep. 6, 11

Stefan Laszczuk, winner of Unpublished Manuscript Award at Writers Week, reads from The Goddam Bus of Happiness.

0425: August 30, Sep. 4

Alwyn Evans on her refugee story, Walk in my Shoes; John Birmingham discusses his alternative history, Weapons of Choice; The Bright Planet by Peter Mews reviewed by Sukhmani Khorani.

0424: August 23, 28

Anne Bartlett reads from Knitting, to be published here and overseas in '05; Val Levcowicz, Melbourne playwright, on her play Valdorama.

0423: August 16, 21

Victoria's Sue Stanford reads 'Small' and talks about her poetry; Dave Metzenthen on Tiff and the Trout; a review of The Etched City by KJ Bishop.

0422: August 9, 14

John Fletcher on his Cloud Forest; Kate Jennings's Moral Hazard revisited and Ian Bone, author of Sleep Rough Tonight, his second for young adults. Lisa Forrest, commissioning editor of Good Reading, on the mag's third birthday.

0421: August 2, 7

Review of Georgia Blain's new book; Linda Aronson on Just Plain Rude; Eva Sallis talks about Fire, Fire and where her writing is taking her.

0420: July 26, 31

A look at John Birmingham's thriller, Weapons of Choice; Paul Collins on Dragonfang, latest in his trilogy; Doug MacLeod: Spiky, Spunky, my pet monkey; Gillian Dooley on Sophie Cunningham's Geography.

0419: July 19, 24

Melbourne poet Lisa Bellear reads at La Mama Poetica; Serpil Ural on her Turkish-Australian story Candles at Dawn; jeltje and Unamunos Quartet at La Mama reconciliation reading.

0418: July 12, 17

Salam Pax, the Baghdad Blogger, a guest at Sydney Writers Week, on his blog book and his rise to literary eminence. Gillian Dooley rates Somewhere Like Home, by Lebanese Australian Nawar Awar Jaddar. Lisa Bellear and jeltje read at a La Mama Poetica Reconciliation event in Melbourne.

0417: July 5,10

Morris Gleitzman, our most popular childrens' author, on his latest, Girl Overboard, twin to the earlier Boy Overboard, both with a refugee theme. Lauren Williams and Tony Birch, two Melbourne poets, read at a Reconciliation Reading at La Mama Poetica.

0416: June28, July 3

Christine Godwin, author of Minnie and the Superguys; Jeanette Winterson, novelist superstar, talking about her latest, Lighthousekeeping. Ruth Starke looks at A Private Man, by Malcolm Knox.

0415: June 21, 26

A whole program devoted to a conversation with UK author Hilary Mantel, Sydney Writers Week guest and winner of the Mind Book of the Year Prize (UK) for her memoir, Giving up the Ghost.

0414: June 14, 19

Erica Jolley, SA poet with some of her new collection, Pomegranates. Ruth Starke on Lydia Laube's latest in her popular travel series, Temples and Tuk Tuks. Andrea Levy on her novel of UK Jamaican-English relations, from Writers Week.

0413: June 7,12

Special feature: a story called The Camera Never Lies, by Annie Gleeson - a desert mystery, read by Angelina Edwards.

0412: May 31, June 5

Janette Turner Hospital at Adelaide Writers Week to talk about Due Preparations for the Plague, and Alistair MacLeod, Canadian short story writer and winner of IPAX Dublin Award for his only novel, No Great Mischief, also at Writers Week. Victorian poet John West with new work.

0411: May 28, 29

Short story, Stamp Man, by Patricia Darby of WA; Michael Robotham tells how a successful ghost writer scooped the pools with his first crime novel, The Suspect.

0410:: May 21, 22

Best selling Irish novelist Marian Keyes on her latest, The Other Side of the Story; Kate Fitzpatrick about her memoir on a life on stage and in the limelight

049: May 14, 15

Jane Goodall talks about The Walker, a cracker of a spooky first crime novel; Ruth Starke reviews Corrie Hosking's first novel Ash Rain, and Corrie talks about its genesis in bushfires.

048: May 7, 8

Stephen Orr, author of Attempts to Draw Jesus, on new manuscript, Hill of Grace. also Amanda Lohrey on long-awaited sequel to Camilla's Bread, The Philosopher's Doll.

047: April 29, 30

Reviews of new Australian novels, Top Bloke, Women on the Rocks, and Smokescreens and Searchlights. Also Ben Winch and Tim Sinclair on their concept album/verse novel, Brothers of the Head.

046: April 19, 24
Poet Adam Aitken reads new work. Novelist and author of Stasiland, Anna Funder. Crime novelist Caroline Shaw - all guests at 2004 Writers Week, Adelaide.

045: April 12, 17
Gillian Dooley reviews The Busdriver who Wanted to be God, by Writers Week guest Etgar Keret. Melbourne poet jeltje reading new work, and poems by Laurie Duggan, winner of the 2003 Victorian Premiers Award.

044:: April 5, 10
Ilsa Evans, author of Spin Cycle, discusses her newest, Drip Dry. John Harwood on his novel The Ghost Writer. a review of Night Letters by Robert Dessaix and a potted history of Writers Week.

043: March 29, April 3
Meg Merrilees talks about her family saga spanning three generations in Perth and England and reads some. Reginald Hill, creator of Dalziel and Pascoe, talks about his latest. Ray Tyndale with some 'Farmwoman' poems.

042: March 22, 27
Chris Tugwell, Adelaide playwright, about his play Xray, on Guantanamo Bay, written with the cooperation of the Hicks family and lawyer Stephen Kenny. Author Sonia Dechian reads some of her new novel, Hotel Rooms and Other Peoples' Beds.

Wr041: March 15, 20
Miriel Lenore reads poems from and discusses her new book of grandmother poems, Drums and Bonnets. Catherine Murphy on world recognition for her book on the history of the Adelaide Central Market. Sally Vickers, author of Miss Garnet's Angel, on Mr Golightly's Holiday.

WR 01 March 17, 22