A discussion with Indian novelists Vayu Naidu and Kunal Basu from the Byron Writers Festival, exploring the way novels can transport us to another time and place.

Australian artist Tim Sharp's Laser Beak Man, Canadian journalist Alanna Mitchell's one woman show Sea Sick, French writer Marie Darrieussecq on the German painter Paula Modersohn Becker, US author Michael Sims chooses his Masterpiece.

Actor, dancer and choreographer Noel Tovey's memoir And Then I Found Me, the impact of winning big literary awards on small publishing houses, Kat Rosenfield's article on how dark and toxic twitter can be for Young Adult fiction writers and readers, and artist Christopher Orchard's show at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the BMG gallery.

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For the Brisbane Writer's Festival artist Gordon Hookey has created an immersive tribute to Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Josephine Wilson is the winner of the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Artist Driller Jet Armstrong's exhibition in South Australia has been shut down after concerns over the use of sacred Aboriginal figures in some of the works and Nicole Krauss' latest novel Forest Dark.

Dee and Cornelius' latest play Big Heart on at Theatreworks in Melbourne, A look at the cultural significance of clouds in poetry and music with British author Richard Hamblyn and for Vinyl Frontier we take a look at songs for causes.

Chris Womersley's latest novel City of Crows, the art of David Griggs, Ayelet Waldman's Top Shelf, 52 years of Australian Dance Theatre

In Between Two features two superstars of the Aussie hip hop scene, MC Joelistics (Tzu) and producer James Mangohig (Sietta), Peter Drew's street art 'Aboriginal Land: Real Australians Seek Welcome', music physiotherapist Bronwen Ackermann, Chris Brookmyre's Top Shelf

This month's Murder Monday is all about the police: a working cop, a former cop, and two novelists who have police officers as protagonists. Michael Cathcart is joined by Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin, senior homicide detective in the NSW police force; former police officer and true crime writer, Duncan McNab; and novelists Adrian McKinty and Candice Fox.

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