Kate Evans onstage for the Bookshelf and Canberra Writers Festival with CWF Artistic Director and critic Beejay Silcox, and novelist Edwina Preston, on Edwina's novel Bad Art Mother . . . and art, writing, motherhood, poetry and all the rest.

Bad Art Mother: Canberra Writers Festival Book Club pod extra

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Cassie and Jonathan Green discuss Colm Toibin's eagerly awaited new novel Long Island. Plus, star reviewers Madeleine Gray and Benjamin Law read and discuss buzzy new fiction from Australia's Siang Lu (Ghost CIties), and Rachel Khong (Real Americans.)

Colm Tóibín's Long Island + Ghost Cities and Real Americans

Cassie and Jonathan Green look at Until August, the lost novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and guest reviewers Hannah Kent and Roanna Gonsalves discuss powerful new fiction out of Iceland and the UK.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lost novel + powerful new fiction from Iceland and the UK

Cassie and guest host Beejay Silcox read new work by David Nicholls, Winnie Dunn and Xóchitl González.

David Nicholls, Winnie Dunn, Xochitl Gonzalez: bestselling, debut and much anticipated authors

Cassie and Tom Wright look at The End of the Morning, the never-before-published novel by cult Australian writer Charmian Clift, and new novels from bestselling author Tommy Orange and Irish novelist Caoilinn Hughes.

Never-before-published & new novels from Charmian Clift, Tommy Orange and Caoilinn Hughes

Michaela Kalowski and Cassie look at The Work by Bri Lee, plus new novels from Call Me By Your Name author Andre Aciman, and a work of speculative fiction by Mykaela Saunders.

Bad Art Mother: Canberra Writers Festival Book Club pod extra

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