The Book Show

December 2007

Monday 31 December 2007

• Richard Ford: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Friday 28 December 2007

• Writing the West Wing
• Going Down Swinging with Nathan Curnow

Thursday 27 December 2007

• Michael Ondaatje on Divisadero
• Judging a book by its cover

Wednesday 26 December 2007

• Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity
• Learning to write - the art of the short story

Tuesday 25 December 2007

• David Malouf's Typewriter Music
• Creative commons: a challenge for creatives?

Monday 24 December 2007

• Bird watching with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson
• Going Down Swinging with Susanne Jones

Friday 21 December 2007

• Imagining the literary future and the year in review
• The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (review)

Thursday 20 December 2007

• The world without us: a thought experiment with Alan Weisman
• The Benjamin Andrew Footpath Library

Wednesday 19 December 2007

• Taslima Nasreen: Bangladeshi writer in hiding in India
• The resurgence of the essay with Julianne Schultz
• Surveillance by Jonathan Raban (review)

Tuesday 18 December 2007

• Speaking up for silence: writing, silence and solitude
• Fictional ecology: environmental politics and fiction

Monday 17 December 2007

• Singing and fishing in Matthew Condon's Trout Opera
• Best of Australian poetry (review)

Friday 14 December 2007

• In praise of the common reader: Ramona Koval's Overland public lecture

Thursday 13 December 2007

• Travels in the blogosphere -- blogging novelists
• An extraordinary collection: the Macleay Collection of natural history

Wednesday 12 December 2007

• Rats of the air or heroes of war? The surprising history of pigeons
• The necessity of poetry with Barry Hill

Tuesday 11 December 2007

• Celebrating the world of the book
• Cassava Republic: Nigeria's new book nation

Monday 10 December 2007

• Trevor Shearston's Dead Birds
• Mentorships for young writers -- Christos Tsiolkas with Jim Thomson

Friday 07 December 2007

• Linda Leith's The Desert Lake
• Andrea Stretton: a tribute to her life and work

Thursday 06 December 2007

• Philip Gourevitch, editor of The Paris Review
• Maud Diver: lost gem of the British Raj
• Rob Gifford's China Road (review)

Wednesday 05 December 2007

• Michael Chabon: swashbuckling gentleman of the road

Tuesday 04 December 2007

• Frank Moorhouse on winning his first Walkley
• A homage to Alice Munro from the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Monday 03 December 2007

• Tim Spalding of librarything.com
• Robert Reynolds' What Happened To Gay Life?

November 2007

Friday 30 November 2007

• Sydney PEN Voices series -- Christos Tsiolkas on tolerance

Thursday 29 November 2007

• Jane Austen and comedy
• Kate Mosse slips through time in Sepulchre
• Kathryn Lomer's Two Kinds of Silence (review)

Wednesday 28 November 2007

• Inside The Library Of America
• Nicolas Bouvier and The Way Of The World

Tuesday 27 November 2007

• Barbara Cullen - Outgoing CEO of the Australian Bookseller's Association
• Walter Laqueur on The Last Days Of Europe
• Tim Thorne's A Letter to Egon Kisch (review)

Monday 26 November 2007

• James Jauncey's Scottish dystopia -- The Witness
• I Wouldn't Start From Here by Andrew Mueller (review)

Friday 23 November 2007

• Political satire...we promise we won't talk about the election...maybe
• Nicola Barker's Booker shortlisted Darkmans

Thursday 22 November 2007

• New York Review of Books update with Robert Silvers
• Mandy Sayer's The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Wednesday 21 November 2007

• Nature's monsters and our imagination with David Quammen
• Philip Roth's Exit Ghost (review)
• Literary drag -- Melbourne Writers' Festival

Tuesday 20 November 2007

• Amit Chaudhuri's This Is Not Fusion
• Sarah Hall's militant women -- The Carhullan Army
• David Edgerton's Shock of the Old (review)

Monday 19 November 2007

• Alex Miller's Landscape of Farewell
• Inside the PR industry with Bob Burton

Friday 16 November 2007

• American screenwriters' strike
• Let the music do the writing...

Thursday 15 November 2007

• Ian Rankin's Exit Music
• Peter Stothard of the Times Literary Supplement

Wednesday 14 November 2007

• Chris Sheedy and Jenny Bond on the stories behind the world's favourite books
• City Stories: Melburnalia
• Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses (review)

Tuesday 13 November 2007

• Robert Harris's The Ghost
• Jordie Albiston's Vertigo (review)

Monday 12 November 2007

• Lion of American letters, Norman Mailer dies at 84

Friday 09 November 2007

• Inga Clendinnen on the impossibility of biography

Thursday 08 November 2007

• Mystery solved: Edgar Allan Poe's death
• Lapham's Quarterly: a new project for former editor of Harpers
• Judith Bishop's poetry collection -- Event (review)

Wednesday 07 November 2007

• Edmund White's Hotel de Dream
• Jennifer Biddle's Breasts, Bodies, Canvas (review)

Tuesday 06 November 2007

• Michelle de Kretser: The Lost Dog

Monday 05 November 2007

• Libel tourism - shopping for scandal
• How we got here: The Guinea Pig's History of Biology

Friday 02 November 2007

• A family writing affair
• Sara Paretsky's Writing in an Age of Silence (review)

Thursday 01 November 2007

• Jane Gleeson-White and the Australian Classics
• Australia behind on sustainable publishing
• Maria Tumarkin's Courage (review)

October 2007

Wednesday 31 October 2007

• The Librarians
• The Italian mind: La Bella Figura
• Voices by Ursula Le Guin (review)

Tuesday 30 October 2007

• Geoff Page's Seriatim
• Inky Awards - teen choice for young adult fiction
• Nell Freudenberger's The Dissident (review)

Monday 29 October 2007

• reCAPTCHA and the digitisation of books
• Tan Twan Eng's The Gift of Rain
• AM Homes's This Book Will Save Your Life (review)

Friday 26 October 2007

• Who wrote Frankenstein?

Thursday 25 October 2007

• John O'Brien's Dalkey Archive Press
• Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

Wednesday 24 October 2007

• Robert MacFarlane's The Wild Places
• Miranda July's award winning short stories (review)

Tuesday 23 October 2007

• Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods

Monday 22 October 2007

• Eland: 25 years' dedication to classic travel writing
• The history of virginity with Hanne Blank

Friday 19 October 2007

• Inscriptions and marginalia - a tradition of annotations

Thursday 18 October 2007

• A tale of two Gertrudes -- with Robert Silvers
• International Book Conference
• Callisto by Torsten Kroll (review)

Wednesday 17 October 2007

• And the Man Booker 2007 goes to ...
• War, Denmark and Hans Christian Andersen
• Emma Magenta's The Origin of Lament

Tuesday 16 October 2007

• Not just a big nose - the real Cyrano de Bergerac
• Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin

Monday 15 October 2007

• Literary bequests - from the eccentric to the treasured

Friday 12 October 2007

• Doris Lessing - Nobel prize winner 2007

Thursday 11 October 2007

• Jay Parini's Last Station: Tolstoy's Final Year
• Frankfurt Book Fair

Wednesday 10 October 2007

• Playing guess who? with the Times Literary Supplement's Peter Stothard
• Writing for Second Life: Richard James Allen

Tuesday 09 October 2007

• Amy Bloom's Away
• The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen (review)

Monday 08 October 2007

• Getting a handle on Henry: Henry Handel Richardson
• Gunter Grass's Peeling the Onion (review)

Friday 05 October 2007

• Book to movie adaptations

Thursday 04 October 2007

• Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea

Wednesday 03 October 2007

• Off the beaten track with the Alaska Quarterly Review
• Jane Gibian's Ardent (Review)
• National Young Writers' Festival

Tuesday 02 October 2007

• Burmese writer in exile, Tin Maung Than
• Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
• David Prater's We Will Disappear (review)

Monday 01 October 2007

• Richard Ford: Edinburgh International Book Festival
• Limits of Location -- delving into the Mitchell Library collections
• Michael Sharkey's The Sweeping Plain (review)

September 2007

Friday 28 September 2007

• Simon Sebag Montefiore on The Young Stalin
• Lessons in Appledorian

Thursday 27 September 2007

• Gideon Haigh: Sydney PEN lecture on prejudice

Wednesday 26 September 2007

• AL Kennedy on her novel Day
• Don DeLillo's Falling Man (review)

Tuesday 25 September 2007

• Legal control of book covers ... the fate of Judith Wright's property
• Creative commons: a challenge for creatives?
• London: City of Disappearances, edited by Iain Sinclair (review)

Monday 24 September 2007

• Terra Nullius: Sven Lindqvist in No One's Land
• A comic Great Gatsby? Nicki Greenberg's graphic adaptation of this classic
• The Curtain by Milan Kundera (review)

Friday 21 September 2007

• Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy: Edinburgh International Book Festival
• Merde Happens by Stephen Clarke (review)

Thursday 20 September 2007

• Patrick Gale: Brisbane Writers' Festival

Wednesday 19 September 2007

• Andrew Wilkins on Australian publishing news
• Simon Ings and the natural history of the eye

Tuesday 18 September 2007

• Armistead Maupin: Brisbane Writers' Festival

Monday 17 September 2007

• Literary blogging - is it the death of print criticism?
• Chris Womersley's The Low Road
• Bill Bryson's Shakespeare (review)

Friday 14 September 2007

• Raimond Gaita: Melbourne Writers' Festival
• J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (review)

Thursday 13 September 2007

• Malcolm Knox 's Jamaica
• The empire strikes back: Nury Vittachi's literary report from Asia

Wednesday 12 September 2007

• Jon Ronson: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Tuesday 11 September 2007

• Nature writing and earthquakes with Dael Allison
• John Lanchester's Family Romance

Monday 10 September 2007

• Philip Gourevitch: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Friday 07 September 2007

• Germaine Greer: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Thursday 06 September 2007

• Fay Weldon: Edinburgh International Book Festival
• Napoleon's Double by Antoni Jach (review)

Wednesday 05 September 2007

• Graham Swift: Edinburgh International Book Festival
• Nolan on Nolan: Sidney Nolan in His Own Words (review)

Tuesday 04 September 2007

• Pat Barker: Edinburgh International Book Festival
• Rob Sheffield's Love is a mix tape: One Song at a Time (review)

Monday 03 September 2007

• Colin Thubron: Edinburgh International Book Festival

August 2007

Friday 31 August 2007

• Young writers in Australia: from grunge literature to DIY publishing
• Dave Eggers: novelist, social activist and pirate supply store owner

Thursday 30 August 2007

• David Leavitt on Alan Turing
• Cate Kennedy on the Australian rural voice

Wednesday 29 August 2007

• Ewan Morrison's The Last Book You Read and Other Stories

Tuesday 28 August 2007

• From fact to fiction: journalists turned novelists
• Nancy Huston's Fault Lines

Monday 27 August 2007

• David Starkey
• Kirsty Murray talks about her Asialink writer's residency

Friday 24 August 2007

• Banned books in Australia: from moral crusaders to national security

Thursday 23 August 2007

• Post Hurricane Katrina: writing about New Orleans
• Indra Sinha's Animal's People

Wednesday 22 August 2007

• Anita Heiss and Indigenous publishing
• Petra White's debut poetry collection, The Incoming Tide (review)
• Andrew Hutchinson's Rohypnol

Tuesday 21 August 2007

• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh, by Linda Colley

Monday 20 August 2007

• Peter Behrens: The Law of Dreams
• Jorge Luis Borges - politically blind but a literary visionary

Friday 17 August 2007

• The art of writing the government report

Thursday 16 August 2007

• Robert Silvers, New York Review of Books
• The anthropology of daily life

Wednesday 15 August 2007

• Cameron Forbes on Bali
• Australian literature in schools

Tuesday 14 August 2007

• Geoffrey Dean's short stories
• Learning from South Park

Monday 13 August 2007

• Colin Cotterill's Thirty Three Teeth
• Angus & Robertson

Friday 10 August 2007

• David Marr and David Leser on journalism in Australia

Thursday 09 August 2007

• You and Me: Our Place
• Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone
• Haruki Murakami's After Dark (review)

Wednesday 08 August 2007

• What is structural editing?
• International book aid

Tuesday 07 August 2007

• Bound for Timbuktu
• Paddy O'Reilly's short stories
• Dalek, I Loved You: A Memoir (review)

Monday 06 August 2007

• JM Ledgard's Giraffe

Friday 03 August 2007

• Creating Big Characters

Thursday 02 August 2007

• From zines to books ... zinester Vanessa Berry goes hi-fi
• Andrew Wilkins: Bookselling and Publishing News

Wednesday 01 August 2007

• Robert Dessaix

July 2007

Tuesday 31 July 2007

• Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist

Monday 30 July 2007

• James Morrow's The Last Witchfinder

Friday 27 July 2007

• 50 years On The Road
• Peter Stothard on Henry James and 'the Orient'

Thursday 26 July 2007

• Imagining the Arctic and Antarctic

Wednesday 25 July 2007

• Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan
• JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (review)

Tuesday 24 July 2007

• The Floating Islands
• Jacket: the internet poetry magazine

Monday 23 July 2007

• Willy Vlautin's The Motel Life
• Arthur Boyd's artist book: Sangkuriang, a mythical Indonesian story

Friday 20 July 2007

• The future of digital publishing

Thursday 19 July 2007

• Nic Pullen on contracts for ghostwriters and biographers
• Science writing about the occult with Deborah Blum
• Tom Shapcott's City of Empty Rooms (review)

Wednesday 18 July 2007

• John Berger's political way of seeing

Tuesday 17 July 2007

• Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead
• Desert writers' walk ... the Larapinta Trail

Monday 16 July 2007

• The poetry of JS Harry
• Comic book appreciation
• Excess Baggage and Claim (review)

Friday 13 July 2007

• 'Every childhood lasts a lifetime' ... writing the memories of childhood experiences in institutional care
• Mark Twain's Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash (review)

Thursday 12 July 2007

• Tom Staley ... the Harry Ransom literary archive in Texas
• Untouchable literature - publishing about India's caste system

Wednesday 11 July 2007

• Neil James ... Plain English
• Robert Silvers, editor of the New York Review of Books

Tuesday 10 July 2007

• UNESCO City of Literature ... Melbourne's bid
• Learning to write - the art of the short story

Monday 09 July 2007

• Jacob Rosenberg - Sunrise West
• Andrew Wilkins - Borders, Booksellers and Digitisation

Friday 06 July 2007

• Alexis Wright Sydney PEN lecture: A Question of Fear

Thursday 05 July 2007

• Sonya Hartnett's The Ghost's Child
• Michael McGirr reviews Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great
• Walter Isaacson's biography of Albert Einstein

Wednesday 04 July 2007

• The story of Penguin Classics
• Asia update with Nury Vittachi
• Dave Eggers' What is the What (review)

Tuesday 03 July 2007

• Australian illuminated manuscripts
• Sydney PEN Voices: The 3 Writers Project - Alexis Wright
• Gillian Mears's Alive in Ant and Bee
• Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (review)

Monday 02 July 2007

• Bartholomew Roberts: King of the Caribbean
• Benjamin Markovitz's Imposture (review)

June 2007

Friday 29 June 2007

• An intimate relationship: editors and writers
• David Astle reviews Granta's Best of Young American Novelists #2

Thursday 28 June 2007

• Literary knighthoods with Peter Stothard
• David Crystal's By Hook or By Crook

Wednesday 27 June 2007

• Ideology in children's fiction
• Deborah Robertson's novel Careless

Tuesday 26 June 2007

• Sanskrit texts for all
• Gail Jones's novel Sorry

Monday 25 June 2007

• Xinran Xue's Chopstick girls

Sunday 24 June 2007

• Australian crime-writer Peter Corris
• David Levithan: gay teen fiction
• Judging a book by its cover

Friday 22 June 2007

• Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007
• Alexis Wright's 2007 Miles Franklin Award-winning novel, Carpentaria (repeat)
• JRR Tolkien's The Children of Hurin (review)

Thursday 21 June 2007

• The passion and pain of literary translation
• Judging a book by its cover

Wednesday 20 June 2007

• David Levithan: gay teen fiction
• Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts

Tuesday 19 June 2007

• Nic Pullen - Literary marriages, separations and contracts
• A Chinese detective novel: The Eye of Jade

Monday 18 June 2007

• Australian crime-writer Peter Corris
• Tim Parks: Umberto Saba's poem 'Goal '

Sunday 17 June 2007

• The Power of Literature: Andrew O'Hagan
• Phil LaMarche's American Youth

Friday 15 June 2007

• The death of Australian literature

Thursday 14 June 2007

• Is On the Beach Australia's best novel?
• Phil LaMarche's American Youth
• Book Expo America

Wednesday 13 June 2007

• UK publisher Philip Gwyn Jones
• Andrei Makine's The Woman Who Waited

Tuesday 12 June 2007

• 9/11 fiction: does it work?
• Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game

Monday 11 June 2007

• Wild Mary: A Life Of Mary Wesley

Sunday 10 June 2007

• Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land

Friday 08 June 2007

• The Power of Literature: Andrew O'Hagan

Thursday 07 June 2007

• Janette Turner Hospital's Orpheus Lost

Wednesday 06 June 2007

• Meanjin: the future
• Rhyll McMaster's Feather Man
• Kabul Beauty School (review)

Tuesday 05 June 2007

• The poetry of Bei Dao
• Lorien Kay reviews Ten Days in the Hills

Monday 04 June 2007

• Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land

Sunday 03 June 2007

• David Malouf's Typewriter Music
• Joanne Harris
• Two novels for and about teenage girls (review)

Friday 01 June 2007

• Eliot Weinberger: An Elemental Thing

May 2007

Thursday 31 May 2007

• Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games

Wednesday 30 May 2007

• Joanne Harris
• Nury Vittachi Asia update

Tuesday 29 May 2007

• David Malouf's Typewriter Music
• Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamen by TGH James (review)

Monday 28 May 2007

• Mike Davis's history of car bombs
• Susan Sontag: At the Same Time (review)

Sunday 27 May 2007

• Barbara Gowdy's Helpless
• Clunes Booktown for a Day

Friday 25 May 2007

• The novel gene - literary Darwinism
• Leonard Cohen

Thursday 24 May 2007

• Clunes Booktown for a Day

Wednesday 23 May 2007

• Cilivilsation and wilderness forum

Tuesday 22 May 2007

• Michael Redhill's Consolation
• Two novels for and about teenage girls (review)

Monday 21 May 2007

• Barbara Gowdy's Helpless

Sunday 20 May 2007

• Michael Ondaatje on Divisadero
• Bird watching with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson

Friday 18 May 2007

• Post-Soviet writing in Russia

Thursday 17 May 2007

• Arts and letters portfolio with opposition minister for the arts, Peter Garrett
• Noah Richler's Literary Atlas of Canada

Wednesday 16 May 2007

• The joy of living of Kadar Abdollah

Tuesday 15 May 2007

• Bird watching with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson

Monday 14 May 2007

• Michael Ondaatje on Divisadero

Sunday 13 May 2007

• Sucked In, by Shane Maloney
• Queen of Fashion: Marie Antoinette

Friday 11 May 2007

• Publishing Gallipoli

Thursday 10 May 2007

• The words and letters portfolio - Arts Minister Senator George Brandis
• The Secret of Lost Things with Sheridan Hay

Wednesday 09 May 2007

• Queen of Fashion: Marie Antoinette
• Rex Butler surveys the glossy world of art books

Tuesday 08 May 2007

• Daniel Mason's A Far Country
• New-look Brisbane libraries

Monday 07 May 2007

• Sucked In, by Shane Maloney
• Ronnie Corbett's It's Goodnight From Him (review)

Sunday 06 May 2007

• Justin Wintle's The Perfect Hostage: the story of Aung San Suu Kyi
• Dorothy Porter: El Dorado

Friday 04 May 2007

• Writing the West Wing

Thursday 03 May 2007

• Alex Jones on the meaning of Helen Garner
• Samina Yasmeen reviews President Musharraf's best-selling memoir

Wednesday 02 May 2007

• Justin Wintle's The Perfect Hostage: the story of Aung San Suu Kyi
• Tim Parks: the problem with experts

Tuesday 01 May 2007

• Vale Vonnegut
• Charles Dickens World

April 2007

Monday 30 April 2007

• Dorothy Porter: El Dorado
• Margo Kingston reviews Pauline Hanson's autobiography

Sunday 29 April 2007

• John Pilger
• More than just recipes - Claudia Roden and the food and culture of the Middle East

Friday 27 April 2007

• More than just recipes: Claudia Roden and the food and culture of the Middle East

Thursday 26 April 2007

• Judging a book by its cover
• The Uncomfortable Dead: a Zapatista crime thriller
• Kirsten Alexander reviews The Emperor's Children

Wednesday 25 April 2007

• The examined life

Tuesday 24 April 2007

• Learning fact from fiction: children and literature
• Tim Parks on The Mezzanine
• James Barr on T.E. Lawrence in Arabia

Monday 23 April 2007

• Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach and England's richest literary prize
• Kunal Basu's Racists

Sunday 22 April 2007

• Justin Cartwright (repeat)
• Mark Vernon's Philosophy of Friendship (repeat)

Friday 20 April 2007

• Writing the Story of Your Life, with Carmel Bird (festival forum repeat)

Thursday 19 April 2007

• The Dangerous Book For Boys: Conn Iggulden (repeat)
• A memoir between two cultures, with Liza Dalby (repeat)

Wednesday 18 April 2007

• Alan Spence's The Pure Land (repeat)
• Review of Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother (repeat)

Tuesday 17 April 2007

• Bill Bryson: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (repeat)
• The Book of General Ignorance: review (repeat)

Monday 16 April 2007

• How Novels Work: according to John Mullan (repeat)
• 50th anniversary: The Cat in the Hat (repeat)

Sunday 15 April 2007

• Sarah Dunant's In the Company of the Courtesan

Friday 13 April 2007

• Life writing, trauma and healing

Thursday 12 April 2007

• Sarah Dunant's In the Company of the Courtesan

Wednesday 11 April 2007

• Women and publishing
• Voiceworks magazine for young writers
• Stefan Collini: 'Intellectual' is not a dirty word!

Tuesday 10 April 2007

• Adib Khan: Spiral Road
• Giampaolo Pansa: The Big Lie
• Adib Khan: Spiral Road

Monday 09 April 2007

• David Batstone and modern-day slavery
• Rex Butler reviews Modernism and Australia

Sunday 08 April 2007

• Colin Simpson Lecture
• Calum's Road: Roger Hutchinson

Friday 06 April 2007

• Colin Simpson Lecture

Thursday 05 April 2007

• Proceeds of crime
• Nicholas Drayson's Love and the Platypus

Wednesday 04 April 2007

• Calum's Road: Roger Hutchinson

Tuesday 03 April 2007

• Robert Silvers on Andre Aciman and Shakespeare
• Georgina Harding's The Solitude of Thomas Cave

Monday 02 April 2007

• John Pilger
• Nury Vittachi

Sunday 01 April 2007

• Hamid Dabashi
• Miranda Seymour's memoir of obsession: In My Father's House

March 2007

Friday 30 March 2007

• Felipe Fernández-Arnesto: the Idea of 'Nation'

Thursday 29 March 2007

• Miranda Seymour's memoir of obsession: In My Father's House
• Kate Bochner reviews The Shoe Queen

Wednesday 28 March 2007

• National Biography Award winner: Jacob Rosenberg
• Life of an anthropologist: Edie Turner
• Imagining alternative Australian histories

Tuesday 27 March 2007

• Hamid Dabashi

Monday 26 March 2007

• A big book about apples
• Writing of murder in Holland

Sunday 25 March 2007

• The 'Song of songs': eroticism in the Bible
• Jon Spence's Becoming Jane Austen

Friday 23 March 2007

• Australian gothic fiction

Thursday 22 March 2007

• Jon Spence's Becoming Jane Austen

Wednesday 21 March 2007

• The 'Song of songs': eroticism in the Bible
• Rachel Seiffert's Afterwards

Tuesday 20 March 2007

• Charles Dickens and the international copyright act
• Modern applications and abuses of copyright law
• Worldwide reading in memory of Anna Politkovskaya

Monday 19 March 2007

• Review of Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother
• Mark Haddon at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Sunday 18 March 2007

• Thomas Keneally's The Widow and Her Hero
• Robert Dessaix: observation, wisdom and narrative

Friday 16 March 2007

• Hilary McPhee reports from Amman, Jordan
• The art of Factory Records

Thursday 15 March 2007

• Books as works of art
• Artists' books: A creative collaboration

Wednesday 14 March 2007

• Jane Austen's romantic life and cooking in Roman Britain
• Steven Carroll's The Time We Have Taken

Tuesday 13 March 2007

• Thomas Keneally's The Widow and Her Hero

Monday 12 March 2007

• Robert Dessaix: observation, wisdom and narrative
• The Book of General Ignorance (review)

Sunday 11 March 2007

• William Boyd's novel Restless
• Alan Spence's The Pure Land

Friday 09 March 2007

• Janette Turner Hospital
• Cuban writing

Thursday 08 March 2007

• Alan Spence's The Pure Land

Wednesday 07 March 2007

• Revisiting Hannah Arendt, and Joan Acocella and the art of criticism
• A vampire love story!

Tuesday 06 March 2007

• Libretto writing workshop
• Enrique de Heriz's Lies

Monday 05 March 2007

• William Boyd's novel Restless
• Geoff Page reviews Picnic, by Fay Zwicky

Sunday 04 March 2007

• Justin Cartwright
• Mark Vernon's Philosophy of Friendship

Friday 02 March 2007

• Janice Galloway on artistic creation
• 50th Anniversary - The Cat in the Hat

Thursday 01 March 2007

• Justin Cartwright
• Richard Ford's Lay of the Land (review)

February 2007

Wednesday 28 February 2007

• Asia update with Nury Vittachi
• The Dangerous Book For Boys: Conn Iggulden

Tuesday 27 February 2007

• A memoir between two cultures, with Liza Dalby
• Terry Lane reviews Communism: a Love Story

Monday 26 February 2007

• Mark Vernon's Philosophy of Friendship
• Geoff Page reviews poetry by Michelle Cahill

Sunday 25 February 2007

• Writing the Story of Your Life, with Carmel Bird (festival forum)

Friday 23 February 2007

• Writing the Story of Your Life, with Carmel Bird (festival forum)

Thursday 22 February 2007

• Louise Welsh' s The Bullet Trick
• Marina Lewycka

Wednesday 21 February 2007

• Nicolas Rothwell: Another Country
• France update: Tin Tin anniversary and Charlie Hebdo on trial

Tuesday 20 February 2007

• Elizabeth Jolley dies

Monday 19 February 2007

• Nic Pullen, literary lawyer
• Wendy Wagner - Rescuing Science From Politics
• An Infamous Past: EM Cioran and the Rise of Fascism in Romania (review)

Sunday 18 February 2007

• The fantasy world of Terry Pratchett
• Notes on Robert Frost
• Geoff Page's review of Blood Universe by Esther Ottaway

Friday 16 February 2007

• Panel discussion: what makes a great speech?
• Barbara Reynolds: Dante: The Poet, The Political Thinker, The Man (review)

Thursday 15 February 2007

• Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity
• Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Against the Day (review)

Wednesday 14 February 2007

• Blair's Britain, Rudi Giuliani's biography and the WH Auden centenary
• A little history of library romance
• Literary speed-dating: State Library of Victoria
• Geoff Page's review of Robert Gray's Nameless Earth

Tuesday 13 February 2007

• Notes on Robert Frost
• Victoria Glendinning on Leonard Woolf

Monday 12 February 2007

• The fantasy world of Terry Pratchett
• Paul Torday's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Sunday 11 February 2007

• Bill Bryson: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
• Dick King-Smith

Friday 09 February 2007

• Rodney Hall
• Review of new essays by William H Gass

Thursday 08 February 2007

• Ebooks: what's their future?
• Dick King-Smith
• Geoff Page's review of Blood Universe by Esther Ottaway

Wednesday 07 February 2007

• Liberal Jews and anti-semitism and Norman Mailer's Hitler novel
• Peter Pan In Scarlet: the long-awaited sequel

Tuesday 06 February 2007

• Exquisite books from French voyages
• Australian Literary Review

Monday 05 February 2007

• Bill Bryson: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Sunday 04 February 2007

• How Novels Work: according to John Mullan
• Narrative non-fiction and Suketu Mehta's Maximum City

Friday 02 February 2007

• Writers At Risk: the plight of writers who speak out

Thursday 01 February 2007

• The state of Australian literature
• Narrative non-fiction and Suketu Mehta's Maximum City

January 2007

Wednesday 31 January 2007

• Nury Vittachi: Asia roundup
• Debra Dean's Madonnas of Leningrad

Tuesday 30 January 2007

• The Complete Book of Aunts: Rupert Christiansen
• Carnival in Suburbia: The Art of Howard Arkley
• In memory of Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007)

Monday 29 January 2007

• How Novels Work: according to John Mullan
• Arnold Zable: From Socrates to Politkovskaya

Sunday 28 January 2007

• Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good
• Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened Animal

Friday 26 January 2007

• Simon Armitage (Edinburgh International Book Festival)
• Rats with Wings
• Review: Fast, Loose, Beginnings, by John Kinsella

Thursday 25 January 2007

• Edmundo Paz Soldán on cyberterrorism, globalisation and political oppression
• Leaf Litter

Wednesday 24 January 2007

• Ian Britain and The Historian's Ashes
• Nury Vittachi and The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics

Tuesday 23 January 2007

• David Lodge on the Year of Henry James at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Monday 22 January 2007

• Harold Pinter, Nobel prize-winning playwright and poet, at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Sunday 21 January 2007

• Audio books and the making of the 56-CD box-set of War and Peace
• Geoff Page reviews My Tanka Diary by Kawano Yuko
• John Updike: The End of Authorship

Friday 19 January 2007

• Literary Journalism panel dicusssion fromTasmanian Living Writers' Week

Thursday 18 January 2007

• Oil: Anatomy Of An Industry
• Bartleby & Co, by Enrique Vila-Matas

Wednesday 17 January 2007

• Translating Ismail Kadare
• Malcolm Fraser launches Reflected Light

Tuesday 16 January 2007

• Penguin Books publishes in Second Life
• Kathryn Hughes's Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

Monday 15 January 2007

• Postmodernism in our schools: panel discussion
• A piece for the left hand

Sunday 14 January 2007

• Editors of the TLS and New York Review of Books on the post-9/11 era
• Dry vs Moist part 3: Jumping Cholla
• Geoff Page reviews The Apparition At Large

Friday 12 January 2007

• The art of the essay

Thursday 11 January 2007

• Ann Jones on Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban

Wednesday 10 January 2007

• All done with mirrors: Iain Wright

Tuesday 09 January 2007

• The Bedside Book Of Birds: Graeme Gibson
• The Big Picture Book

Monday 08 January 2007

• James English: The Economy of Prestige - Prizes, Awards and the Circulation of Cultural Value

Sunday 07 January 2007

• Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun
• Barbara Epstein, co-founder of the New York Review of Books

Friday 05 January 2007

• John Banville: in conversation at the Sydney Writers' Festival

Thursday 04 January 2007

• Raphael Rubinstein

Wednesday 03 January 2007

• Inhaling the Mahatma with Christopher Kremmer
• The voice of Rudyard Kipling

Tuesday 02 January 2007

• Samuel Beckett's 100th birthday

Monday 01 January 2007

• Peter Carey: Theft: A Love Story