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Anna and Amanda discuss the Costa Book Awards category winners.

Our book of the week is Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips, a haunting debut novel about the disappearance of two girls in remote Kamchatka.  A National Book Award finalist, it was one of the New York Times' best books of 2019 and was a Best Book of 2019 in The Washington Post, NPR, Vanity Fair, Esquire and USA Today.

Coming up: Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe and The Yield by Tara June Winch.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the Costa Book Awards shortlists - the category winners will be announced on 6 January.

Our book of the week is Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang. This tells the story of the Soong sisters, who played a central role in China's history from 1911 to the Mao years.  It's been described as a 'fairy tale' but reads like an opera.  We can't wait to hear Jung Chang speak at Adelaide Writers' Week in March.

Coming up: Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips.

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A special episode: our interview with Jeff Lindsay to discuss his new crime novel Just Watch Me.

Jeff is the author of the hugely successful Dexter books which led to the hit TV show.  Just Watch Me is the first in a new series starring Riley Wolfe, a con man who performs daring heists and targets the wealthiest 0.1% .  It's unputdownable, darkly funny and a great holiday read.  All the Dexter feels! 

We'll be back in January with Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang. 

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Anna, Annie and Amanda are back with our holiday reading recommendations.

Our picks:

Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch

Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

Other books mentioned:

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

The Yield by Tara June Winch

Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Next week, we'll be reading Just Watch Me by Jeff Lindsay.

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Happy 100th episode! Annie, Amanda and Anna reveal our best books of 2019.

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The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths

We That Are Young by Preti Taneja

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Yield by Tara June Winch

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

Special mentions:

No Friend but the Mountain by Behrouz Boochani, translated by Omid Tofighian

Lanny by Max Porter

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Anna and Annie belatedly discuss the Nobel Prize winners for Literature and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. 

Our book of the week is Glory and its Litany of Horrors by Fernanda Torres translated by Eric M. B. Becker.  We loved Torres' The End (ep 10) and this is another fun, colourful novel set in Brazil.  Anna thoroughly enjoyed it - Annie has mixed feelings.

Next week - our best books of the year and summer reading recommendations! 

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Anna is joined by special guest Jo Dyer, director of Adelaide Writers' Week.  Anna and Jo discuss the authors coming to Writers' Week from 29 February to 5 March 2020.  Some highlights include Jokha Alharthi, Julia Phillips, Damian Barr and Pitchaya Sudbunthad. 

Our book of the week is The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, the follow-up to her much-awarded The Natural Way of Things.  It's the  story of three women who clear out the house of their friend who has died.  Worthy of its rave reviews, lots to discuss and we haven't stopped thinking about this one.

Next week, Anna, Annie and Amanda will do our Summer Reading Recommendations and Best Books of 2019.

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Anna is joined by special guest Kate Griffith!  They discuss the New York Times Top 10 Best-Sellers.

Our book of the week is Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This novel about a 1970s rock group and their mysterious break-up has been a northern summer hit, a New York Times best-seller and is being adapted for television by Reese Witherspoon.  Hot question: who will play Daisy? (breaking: Riley Keough has been cast).

Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading Glory and Its Litany of Horrors by Fernanda Torres translated by Eric M. B. Becker.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize shortlist.  Breaking news: the winner has been announced - Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann. Yay!

Our book of the week is When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, by Meena Kandasamy. A raw, unflinching look at domestic violence but also poetic and at times funny, it has been described as 'explosive', 'searing', 'scorching' and 'shattering'.  It is a cracker of a novel.  It was shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction and was named in the 2017 Best Books by the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and Financial Times.

Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading Glory and its Litany of Horrors by Fernanda Torres, translated by Eric M. B. Becker.

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Anna and Annie are thrilled to be chatting with Heather Rose about her new novel Bruny.

Heather is best known for her novel The Museum of Modern Love, winner of multiple awards including the 2017 Stella Prize. Bruny is a political satire set in Tasmania, with Astrid (Ace) facing a conflict over a bridge to Bruny Island.  It touches on family, climate change and the influence of China.  We loved this mix of satire, dystopia and spy thriller.

Heather recommends City of Trees by Sophie Cunningham and There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett, which she calls a 'salted caramel book' (our new favourite book descriptor).

Heather's podcast recommendations are Oprah's Super Soul Conversations, Under the Skin with Russell Brand and Our Cinematic Universe.

Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy. 

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