The Weekend Booktopian - 18th June 2021 (feat. Veronica Heritage-Gorrie - Emerging Writers Festival)

Welcome to The Weekend Booktopian, our weekly podcast to kick off your weekend! Our team will give you the low down on all things book news related, and turn you on to the books that we are reading right now!

For our forty-eighth episode Nick hosts Jo, Joel and special guest Veronica Heritage-Gorrie as they discuss Emerging Writers Festival 2021, the Miles Franklin Shortlist and the winner of the Pulitzer Prizes. We then give you our latest round of book recommendations, before another edition of Book Fight!

Emerging Writers Festival: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/

EWF 2021 Events: https://bit.ly/3cyPqMq

Books Mentioned in this podcast:

Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place: https://bit.ly/3vqEsPU

Nina Young, Denise Young - My Father the Murderer: https://bit.ly/3grrSve

Erin Stewart - The Missing Among Us: https://bit.ly/3iJlLEq

Gary Lonesborough - The Boy From The Mish: https://bit.ly/3paHhBo

Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?: https://bit.ly/39wm7YN

Liane Moriarty - Apples Never Fall: https://bit.ly/3iYDkOA

Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land: https://bit.ly/342ZuZA

Jonathan Franzen - Crossroads: https://bit.ly/3fCbN4f

Martha Wells - Fugitive Telemetry: The Murderbot Diaries: https://bit.ly/389oiAM

Norman Swan - So You Think You Know What's Good for You?: https://bit.ly/3hgcWRH

Veronica Heritage-Gorrie - Black and Blue: https://bit.ly/3wqcAg9

Louise Erdrich - The Night Watchman: https://bit.ly/2RWUqnd

Host: Nick Wasiliev

Guests: Jo Lewin, Joel Naoum & Veronica Heritage-Gorrie - Emerging Writers Festival

Producer: Nick Wasiliev