Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are joined by Min Jin Lee to discuss triumph in literature. The hero’s journey has shaped fiction since before we called it that. Is the heroine's journey different?

• Chapter 1: Min Jin Lee joins Jamila and Astrid from New York to discuss her novel Pachinko and explore the different ways her female characters experience success and triumph. 
• Chapter 2: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld.
• Chapter 3: Rising Strong by Brené Brown.
• Recommendations: Astrid recommends The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar and No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani. For children, Jamila recommends We're All Wonders by R. J. Palacio.

 

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In our seventh bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards reveal the children’s books they most adored when younger, as well as those they are now deeply embarrassed by. And yes, kids books have gotten so much better.

This bonus episode follows on from Episode 7: Innocence.

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Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards discuss childhood, innocence and growing up. 

• Introduction: Innocence and the importance of remembering childhood.
• Chapter 1: We buy books for kids to expand their minds and their worlds. But does literature for and about children have something to offer adults as well? Laura Harris, Publishing Director at Penguin Random House Australia, joins Jamila and Astrid to answer this question.
• Chapter 2: The Bluey universe, with special guest Rafi Rizvi-Smith.
• Chapter 3: His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman.
• Recommendations: For younger children, Jamila recommends Where Is The Green Sheep? by Mem Fox (illustrated by Judy Horacek) and Davina Bell’s All the Ways To Be Smart. For older readers, Astrid recommends Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time, Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn Chronicles (there are seven in the series) and Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor Chronicles (there are two in the series to date).

 

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In our sixth bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider who the loneliest character in literature may be.

This bonus episode follows on from Episode 6: Loneliness.

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Writer and comedian Rosie Waterland joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to discuss loneliness. 

• Introduction: Loneliness in 2020.
• Chapter 1: What is the difference between being alone and loneliness? Is there a difference for introverts and extroverts? 
• Chapter 2: Rosie Waterland discusses loneliness, loss and social isolation, and reflects on the process of writing The Anti-Cool Girl and Every Lie I've Ever Told.
• Chapter 3: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking and Quiet: The Journal by Susan Cain.
• Recommendations: Astrid recommends The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Jamila recommends So Much To Tell You by John Marsden.

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In our fifth bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards reveal what their boggart would be. And if you aren't a Harry Potter fan, a boggart is a shape-shifting creature that takes on the form of its observer's worst fear...

This bonus episode follows on from Episode 5: Fear.

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Author Rebekah Robertson joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to discuss fear in life and literature. 

• Introduction: Why do we choose to be afraid when we read? And what does that mean for an author who writes their own experience of fear, or of others being somehow afraid of them?
• Chapter 1: Rebekah Robertson discusses About A Girl, her work chronicling her transgender daughter’s experience growing up in Australia.
• Chapter 2: See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill.
• Chapter 3: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks.
• Recommendations: Astrid gets (too) excited about pandemic and dystopian literature and recommends The Trespassers by Meg Mundell, The Stand by Stephen King (the uncut edition) and The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

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In our fourth bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards project forwards thirty years and consider the books being published today that might evoke nostalgia in our future.

This bonus episode follows on from Episode 4: Nostalgia.

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Melina Marchetta joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to discuss nostalgia and the act of returning to one's favourite books. 

• Introduction: How do authors transport us back in time, sometimes to a place we’ve never been? 
• Chapter 1: Melina Marchetta considers her own works and the reactions readers have to them, as well as the pull of fiction for lovers of words.
• Chapter 2: Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding.
• Chapter 3: The Secret History by Donna Tart.
• Recommendations: Astrid recommends Puberty Blues by Kathy Lette and Hilary Mantel's trilogy Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light.

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In our third bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards name the characters who forced them to consider the world from another viewpoint, as well as the ones whose experience made them feel seen. Again, this is a little embarrassing for both of them.

This bonus episode follows on from Episode 3: Solidarity.

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