The Book Show
The Book Show is ABC Radio National's home for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. This daily program will explore the many worlds in which we find readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers -- all working with words and the medium of language.
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10 Episodes of this Podcast:
Book Show 2009-11-06
Published: 2009-11-05 09:00:00Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier Parrot and Olivier in America is the new novel from Peter Carey. How to write about sport The horse race that stops the nation may be over for another year but as we head into summer, our television screens and newspapers will soon be filled with wall-to-wall coverage of the cricket and the Australian Open.
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Book Show 2009-11-05
Published: 2009-11-04 09:00:00Peter Temple's Truth Peter Temple's last book The Broken Shore won a swag of prizes, medals and crime awards. It was also named Australian General Fiction Book of the Year in the Australian Book Industry awards. William Trevor's Love and Summer (review) Love and Summer was longlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize. It's by 82-year-old William Trevor, who's an author often described as the master of quiet Irish brooding.
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Book Show 2009-11-04
Published: 2009-11-03 09:00:00Brothers and Sisters: Charlotte Wood For many of us, a brother or sister is a best friend for life or part of childhood that can never be lost. But for others the complex bond between siblings is a lifelong source of tension or anguish. Emerging Indonesian writers Since the exit from power of former Indonesian president Suharto, writers have grappled with the archipelago's recent history. Amy Barker's Omega Park (review) Amy Barker's debut novel Omega Park echoes her childhood growing up in housing commission flats on Queensland's Gold Coast and in the care of the state.
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Book Show 2009-11-03
Published: 2009-11-02 09:00:00Tristram Hunt on the frock coated communist English author and historian Tristram Hunt speaks at the Times Cheltenham Literature Festival about his new book The Frock Coated Communist.
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Book Show 2009-11-02
Published: 2009-11-01 09:00:00America's best women authors It's well known that women are the biggest buyers of books and the biggest readers, particularly of fiction. Beneath Peter Bakowski's armour Peter Bakowski is a portraitist, but his toolbox doesn't include paintbrushes. He uses words. Pamela Freeman's The Castings Trilogy (review) The stock-in-trade characters of fantasy writers are often dwarves, elves and orcs.
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Book Show 2009-10-30 - UPDATED
Published: 2009-10-29 10:00:00Graham Swift on literary friendships Graham Swift in conversation at the Cheltenham Literature Festival talking about mentors and literary friendships in his new book Making an Elephant, Writing From Within.
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Book Show 2009-10-29
Published: 2009-10-28 10:00:00Sebastian Faulks in conversation at Cheltenham Sebastian Faulks is in conversation at the Cheltenham Literature Festival about his book A Week in December.
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Book Show 2009-10-28
Published: 2009-10-27 10:00:00Sebastian Barry in conversation at Cheltenham Irish playwright, poet and novelist Sebastian Barry in conversation at the Cheltenham Literature Festival about his latest book The Secret Scripture. It won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for many other awards, including the 2008 Man Booker prize.
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Book Show 2009-10-27
Published: 2009-10-26 10:00:00Colm Toibin and Colum McCann in conversation at Cheltenham Colm Toibin and Colum McCann are two of Ireland's best writers. Not only do they share the same homeland and [almost] the same first name but both novelists have also recently published books which look to New York as the dreaming site for their characters. The Love Children by Marilyn French (review) Marilyn French is most noted for her 1977 novel The Women's Room but she also wrote a women's history of the world and her first book was on James Joyce.
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Book Show 2009-10-26
Published: 2009-10-25 10:00:00Margaret Drabble in conversation English novelist Margaret Drabble in conversation at the Cheltenham Literary Festival about her new book The Pattern In The Carpet, a personal history with jigsaws.
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