Irish prize-winning author Eimear McBride on her latest novel, The Lesser Bohemians; Trudy Smith, the 100 year old artist; Leanne Hall's children's novel, Iris and the Tiger; and a new play that centres on William Cooper, who is remembered as both an Aboriginal activist and as a hero to the Melbourne Jewish community.

Foreign correspondent and novelist Jeremy Gavron goes in search of his mother in an effort to make sense of who she was and why she took her own life. Next, we revisit Teju Cole's novel Every Day is for the Thief in our African Book Club; and finally writer Patrick Gale discusses his masterpiece: a 1950 recording of Kathleen Ferrier singing the folk song The Keel Row.

Beloved Israeli writer Etgar Keret on his memoir. He tells stories about his parents who were Holocaust survivors, talks about what it's like raising a child in a war zone and amongst all this serious stuff he makes you laugh.

We explore new exhibition that brings together the work of three pioneering modernist painters: Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith; then hear about a new production at the National Theatre of Parramatta which explores what it means to exist in translation; and finish with Monsieur Mayonnaise, a film about Philippe Mora.

Musician Hugo Race on his part travelogue, part rock 'n' roll memoir, Road Series; Amanda Curtin's novel Elemental about the itinerant workers who followed the herring catch in northern Scotland for centuries; and we journey beyond the Vinyl Frontier in search of the best tunes released on the humble and somewhat forgotten format – the 10-inch LP.

Author Simon Winchester takes us on a thrilling journey through the recent past, an uncertain present and the future of the Pacific Ocean.

Robert Forster, together with Grant McLennan, formed one of Australia's most influential bands, the Go-Betweens, and he's written a memoir called Grant and I.

We meet Antony Penrose, the boy who bit Picasso, performance artist Casey Jenkins, and Damon Young on The Art of Reading.

We hear about The Literati, a witty new play by Australian writer Justin Fleming, who has taken Moliere's 17th century play Les Femmes Savantes, and re-set it in present day Sydney; we hear the magical tale of Asna, a young girl who unexpectedly discovers a whole civilisation growing on her tongue; and Maria Semple's farce about self-improvement and the fallibility of human nature.

We meet Hannah Kent and ask her why she's fascinated in the dark side of women in history, then we hear about a performance piece made to celebrate The Snake Run in Albany, thought to be one of the oldest skate parks in the world; and we journey beyond the Vinyl Frontier in search of the very best records that feature bells.