Don't Shoot The Messenger

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Corrie to Caro: What was sporting interview raised your eyebrows on the weekend

Caro to Corrie: What’s this week’s “good news “story for Australian book publishers

Corrie to Caro: What was behind Rory McIlroy's strange Royal Melbourne comment last week

Caro to Corrie: What was your big bubble-burst moment last week

Corrie to Caro: Is there really leadership tension at AFL headquarters

Caro to Corrie: What was this week’s embarrassing texting error

The Cocktail Cabinet: With Myles Thomson of Prince Winestore. This week: Champagne

⁠Bollinger Special Cuvee⁠

⁠JP Deville Carte Noire Brut⁠

www.princewinestore.com.au 177 Bank Street, South Melb & Hansard Street, Zetland NSW & David Jones Food Hall, Castlereigh St Sydney

We take your feedback, recommendations and tips!

To be involved with the Mail Bag and to ask Caro and Corrie questions, please email your questions and ideas to [email protected] or message us on Instagram or Facebook.

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BOOK: Stars and Bars by William Boyd

SCREEN: Any Human Heart, the mini-series Apple TV

FOOD: ⁠Yoghurt and Fig Cake – with a twist, from Delicious Magazine⁠

**note - Corrie uses Raspberries as a substitute

ON THIS EPISODE

- What makes a great memoir?

- The Anika Wells controversy

- Champagne with Myles Thomson from the Prince Wine Store

- Is there tension at AFL HQ?

- Corrie’s text blunder this week!

- Baz McCullum’s strange post-play interview after the second Test

- Reece Witherspoon endorses another up and coming Australian author

**REMINDER** – OUR CHRISTMAS PODCAST SPECIAL – NEXT WEEK

Live from The Continental Hotel, Sorrento.

- Caro and Corrie with guests Ross Lyon, Dwayne Russell, Rebecca Barnard and Anna “From the Op Shop” Barry

- $70 (includes drink on arrival and pass-around food)

- Wednesday December 17 5.30pm-7.30pm

- The Continental Hotel, Sorrento

- TICKETS - https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1497723

ITEM 1: My Life As A Book: Why people write memoirs, and why memoirs can work – or seriously not work

- Do we love/hate memoirs

- What a good memoir can offer readers

- Controversial memoirs and memoirs that create big news

- Memoirs we have loved:

ITEM 2: Where do we stand on the Anika Wells controversy

The Cocktail Cabinet: With Myles Thomson of Prince Winestore. This week: Champagne

Bollinger Special Cuvee

JP Deville Carte Noire Brut

www.princewinestore.com.au 177 Bank Street, South Melb & Hansard Street, Zetland NSW & David Jones Food Hall, Castlereigh St Sydney

BSF. BSF brought to us by Red Energy.

Owned by Snowy Hydro, a leader in renewable energy. Switch to 100% Aussie owned Red Energy.

BOOK: Stars and Bars by William Boyd

SCREEN: Any Human Heart, the mini-series Apple TV

FOOD: Yoghurt and Fig Cake – with a twist, from Delicious Magazine

**note - Corrie uses Raspberries as a substitute

SIX QUICK QUESTIONS

FOR RED ENERGY Red Energy. Moving home? Stress less and make the move to Red Energy. Call 131 806.

Corrie to Caro: What was sporting interview raised your eyebrows on the weekend

Caro to Corrie: What’s this week’s “good news “story for Australian book publishers

Corrie to Caro: What was behind Rory McIlroy's strange Royal Melbourne comment last week

Caro to Corrie: What was your big bubble-burst moment last week

Corrie to Caro: Is there really leadership tension at AFL headquarters

Caro to Corrie: What was this week’s embarrassing texting error

Real Christmas tree, fake Christmas tree, no Christmas tree?

Favorite Christmas movie

Finish this sentence: “My favourite way to spend Boxing Day is……"

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Owned by Snowy Hydro, a leader in renewable energy. Switch to 100% Aussie owned Red Energy.

BOOK: 2025 Best Literacy Fiction: Corrie and Chris reveal

Kris - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny – Kiran Desai

Corrie – What We Can Know – Ian McEwan

SCREEN: 2025 Best Screen Adaptation of a Book we have seen this year

Kris: Small Things Like These

Corrie – The Thursday Murder Club

FOOD: 2025 Cookbooks We Love – Us again

Something From Nothing – Alison Roman

Corrie – Persiana Easy – Sabrina Ghayour

ON THIS EPISODE

SPECIAL GUEST CO-HOST THIS WEEK: Kris Humphreys of Avenue Bookstore (in Albert Park, Elsternwick and Richmond)

We review our favourite books from 2025, in a range of categories

**REMINDER**

OUR CHRISTMAS PODCAST SPECIAL

Live from The Continental Hotel, Sorrento.

- Caro and Corrie with guests Ross Lyon, Dwayne Russell, Rebecca Barnard and Anna “From the Op Shop” Barry

- $70 (includes drink on arrival and pass-around food)

- Wednesday December 17 5.30pm-7.30pm

- The Continental Hotel, Sorrento

- TICKETS: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1497723

2025 – Talking Books

• Best Beach Read

Kris: A Great Act of Love – A Great Act of Love

Corrie: The Cazalet Chronicles – Elizabeth Jane Howard

• Best Crime/Thriller –

Kris: Mischance Creek – Garry Disher

Corrie: Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

• Best Bio/Memoir –

Kris: Mother Mary Comes to Me – Arundhati Roymother

Corrie: Whitlam – Troy Bramston

• Best Non-Fiction –

Kris: When the Going Was Good – Graydon Carter

Corrie: The Shortest History of the United States of America – Don Watson

• Best Beautiful Book –

Kris: Melbourne Heritage Interiors – Kristine Slawinski, Phil Campbell

Corrie: 65000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art, Marcia Langton AO and Judith Ryan AM

• Best Junior Fiction –

Kris: Frances Bloom – Katrina Nannestad

Billie B Brown series - Sally Rippin

• Best Christmas Book for Little Readers

Kris: Here come the cousins – Maggie Hutchings

Corrie: Claris and the Christmas Surprise: A Claris Storybook – Megan Hess

• The Book We Most Want To Read of the Summer Holiday

Kris: The Elements – John Boyne

Corrie: The Heir Apparent – Rebecca Armitage

BSF brought to us by Red Energy.

Owned by Snowy Hydro, a leader in renewable energy. Switch to 100% Aussie owned Red Energy.

BOOK: 2025 Best Literacy Fiction: Corrie and Chris reveal

Kris - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny – Kiran Desai

Corrie – What We Can Know – Ian McEwan

SCREEN: 2025 Best Screen Adaptation of a Book we have seen this year

Kris: Small Things Like These

Corrie – The Thursday Murder Club

FOOD: 2025 Cookbooks We Love – Us again

Something From Nothing – Alison Roman

Corrie – Persiana Easy – Sabrina Ghayour

SIX QUICK QUESTIONS - FOR RED ENERGY. Red Energy. Moving home? Stress less and make the move to Red Energy. Call 131 806.

1. Real Christmas tree, fake Christmas tree, no Christmas tree?

2. Favorite Christmas movie

3. Finish this sentence: “My favourite way to spend Boxing Day is……"

A reminder – shoutout for PRINCE WINESTORE – unfortunately Myles couldn’t make it in this week – however get down to the Prince Wine Store or go to their website www.princewinestore.com.au to place your order ahead of Christmas!

THANKS RED ENERGY AND PRINCE WINESTORE

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This week, Myles Thomson from the Prince Wine Store discusses wines from the Hunter Valley region.

THIS WEEK’ S SPECIAL GUEST Shaynna Blaze, Founder of Voice of Change

⁠⁠https://shaynnablaze.com/about-shaynna/voice-of-change/⁠⁠

VOICE OF CHANGE – supported by Red Energy:

Voice of Change was founded to amplify the voices of victim-survivors of family violence, to champion meaningful education about – and action against – family violence, and to bring about prevention and change.

We chat with Shaynna about her role within the Voice of Change campaign, why she is so passionate about this issue, the importance of discussing domestic violence issues and to raise awareness particularly as we head towards Christmas.

And Shaynna also speaks to us about her role as Executive Producer of the film The Fort, made with her two kids and this spearheaded her co-founding the not-for-profit charity ‘Voice of Change Australia’ using the arts to create meaningful conversations from using survivor and victim’s stories to change the cultural attitudes that underpin family violence.

• Red Energy is proud to support Voice of Change (https://www.voiceofchangeau.org/)

• Voice of Change is a national non-profit organisation dedicated to ending domestic and family violence using arts to break down the barriers to empower storytelling, community education and collective action.

• Founded by Shaynna Blaze and backed by a team of changemakers, Voice of Change was born from a belief that stories can change attitudes, behaviours, and cultures — to drive national impact.