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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National treasure and writer Benjamin Law joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to discuss solidarity in literature and non-fiction. 

• Introduction: Reading allows us to experience the world from another point of view. It is the ultimate act of empathy. But what about writing?
• Chapter 1: Benjamin Law joins Jamila and Astrid to consider the nuances of the responsibilities of writers, including whether writers can only write the cultural experience that they know.
• Chapter 2: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo.
• Chapter 3: Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe.
• Recommendations: Jamila recommends Know My Name by Channel Miller. Astrid recommends Our House Is On Fire: Scenes of a family and planet in crisis by Greta Thunberg and her family, The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham and Terra Nullius: A Novel by Claire G. Coleman.

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In our second bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards reveal their favourite (and least favourite) relationships on the page. Some of them are a little embarrassing.

This bonus episode follows on from Episode 2: Lust.

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The fiercely intelligent Australian author Ceridwen Dovey joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to discuss lust in literature and non-fiction. 

• Introduction: How lust is depicted in literature, and how it needs to change. Why are we, as readers, drawn to stories of lust over love?
• Chapter 1: Power imbalances within a couple can fuel lust and often are the driver of romantic liaisons in literature. But can a meaningful relationship of equals ever be possible as a result?  
• Chapter 2: Becoming, Michelle Obama.
• Chapter 3: In the Garden of the Fugitives, Ceridwen Dovey. Jamila, Astrid and Ceridwen talk lust, love and reflect on "the obsessive stuff, the stalkery stuff, and the stuff we sweep under the carpet of our normal lives”.
• Recommendations: Astrid recommends Atonement by Ian McEwan. Jamila recommendsThe Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenger and - wait for it - Simple by Yotam Ottelenghi.

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In our first bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards chat about the times they enjoy being anxious when reading, and how they feel about some famous cliffhangers in literature.

This bonus episode follows on from Episode 1: Anxiety.

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