Final Draft - Great Conversations

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Kirsty Everett discussing her compelling memoir Honey Blood.

At age nine Kirsty Everett defied the odds and beat a cancer diagnosis. Kirsty was a successful gymnast and embraced life every way she could. Despite this tough battle, nothing could prepare Kirsty for when her cancer returned in her teens.

Honey Blood is the inspirational true story of Kirsty's survival and thriving.

Kirsty Everett's Honey Blood is produced and presented by Briannah Devlin

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Iain Ryan discussing his latest noir thriller The Spiral

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Erma Bridges is tired. She just got off a red eye to answer as yet unknown charges of misconduct from her university. A university where Erma is writing a book on the History of Reader Deployed Young Adult Fiction (Choose Your Own Adventure books ‘natch’). A university where young women are disappearing at an alarming rate. A university where one young woman, Erma’s missing research assistant, is about to reappear and brutally attack Erma for seemingly no discernible reason.

Join me as we discover Iain Ryan’s The Spiral.

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Rebecca Lim discussing her YA own voices novel Tiger Daughter

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Wen and Henry are friends, drawn together as the children of migrants as well as by shared dreams of escaping their suburban school and its petty racism.

Wen loves to read and draw but her father sees these are frivolous pursuits. So she and Henry dream of sitting the selective schools exam and escaping to a high school that will nurture their talents and offer them something more.

Their plan is on track, even if Wen hasn’t told her parents, until one day when Henry doesn’t turn up to school.

Join me as we discover Rebecca Lim’s Tiger Daughter...

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Laura Jean McKay discussing her Victorian Premiers Literary Award winning novel The Animals in That Country.

The Animals in That Country explores a pandemic sweeping across Australia that leaves the infected with mild cold symptoms, pink eyes and the ability to hear and communicate with animals!

The story takes us into a conservation reserve where Jean works as a guide; as much from her love of animals as her love for her grand-daughter Kimberly. Initially the reserve is free from Zooflu, but how long can the quarantine last and can Jean protect Kimberly?!

Join me as we discover Laura Jean McKay’s The Animals in That Country...

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Kirli Saunders discussing her verse novel Bindi.

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Bindi is eleven years old. She loves art and hockey, even if her team never wins. It’s a new school year and Bindi is looking forward to new teachers and seeing her friends.

But this year the town is in drought and the biggest bushfire Bindi’s dad has ever seen is bearing down on the town

Join me as we discover Kirli Saunders’s Bindi...

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features part two of Will Kostakis discussing his fantasy series Monuments.

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Connor, Sally and Locky should be just ordinary teens; skipping class and dealing with friendship dramas. But there’s a pantheon of ancient gods known as Monuments hidden beneath high schools across Sydney. As they race to find the Monuments and deal with their power, Locky Connor and Sally must confront the danger of the hounds, rebel gods and the question of who, if anyone, has the right to control so much power.

Join me as we discover Will Kostakis’s Rebel Gods...

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features part one of Will Kostakis discussing his fantasy series Monuments.

Today on the show...

Connor, Sally and Locky should be just ordinary teens; skipping class and dealing with friendship dramas. But there’s a pantheon of ancient gods known as Monuments hidden beneath high schools across Sydney. As they race to find the Monuments and deal with their power, Locky Connor and Sally must confront the danger of the hounds, rebel gods and the question of who, if anyone, has the right to control so much power.

Join me as we discover Will Kostakis’s Rebel Gods...

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Garry Disher discussing his new rural noir Consolation.

Paul Hirschhausen is the only cop in the poorly heated police station in Tiverton. He was run out of Adelaide when he turned whistle-blower on corruption. But the town has come to know him, he’s setting down roots. But then there’s always an edge when police are around.

Now Hirsch has got a father & son on the run, armed and dangerous. The local music festival looks like it’s going belly up and someone is sneaking around stealing women’s underwear in the night.

Join me as we discover Garry Disher’s Consolation...

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Garry Disher discussing his new rural noir Consolation.

Paul Hirschhausen is the only cop in the poorly heated police station in Tiverton. He was run out of Adelaide when he turned whistle-blower on corruption. But the town has come to know him, he’s setting down roots. But then there’s always an edge when police are around.

Now Hirsch has got a father & son on the run, armed and dangerous. The local music festival looks like it’s going belly up and someone is sneaking around stealing women’s underwear in the night.

Join me as we discover Garry Disher’s Consolation...

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Karen Wyld discussing her novel Where the Fruit Falls.

Where the Fruit Falls is an epic narrative chronicling four generations of a family across the twentieth century. The novel centers on a young aboriginal woman, Brigid Devlin and her daughters Maggie and Victoria.

Brigid leaves her home following a willy wagtail to her one true love. Her journey takes her across diverse and changing landscapes showing her her country and the lands of her kin but also reveals the hate and fear that has torn those families apart. As Brigid continues to walk in search of love, family and identity she must also discover the connections that have always existed inside herself...

Join me as we discover Karen Wyld’s Where the Fruit Falls...