The Australian Classics Book Club is a monthly exploration of Australian writing; looking back over the forgotten, the classic, the much discussed and underappreciated in Australian Letters.

Picnic at Hanging Rock tells the story of a group of students at Appleyard College in the Macedon Ranges in Victoria. The group go on a picnic to Hanging Rock on Valentines Day 1900 in the company of two teachers. As the afternoon wears on a group of students go out to investigate the Rock. The rest of the party rest in a drowsy torpor until one of the girls returns hysterical; for the others have disappeared completely...

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

Today's episode features Sonia Henry discussing her debut novel Going Under.

Going Under is the story of Kitty Holliday. Kitty’s a surgical intern at a major teaching hospital struggling to balance her idealism, against the gruelling reality of making it in the medical world. Suffering abuse at the hands of patients and senior doctors alike Kitty must rely on her friends if she is going to survive and continue to save lives.

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Today's episode features Jannali Jones discussing her debut novel My Father's Shadow.

Kaya and her mother must flee their home and escape to the isolated hamlet of Mount Wilson. Kaya has witnessed something, a crime she cannot remember at her father’s office and now he is gone and she is in danger.

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

Today's episode features Meg Mundell discussing her new novel The Trespassers.

From across the UK people jealously guard their clean bill of health in order to leave England’s shores in search of work in Australia. As passengers board The Steadfast, protesters line the docks denouncing the men, women and children as traitors for abandoning the infected country. On board the ship the passengers settle in for the month long journey to Australia; dreaming of the possibility that awaits them in this new and healthy land.

All proceeds with interminable regularity until a crew member is found murdered in the early dawn. The only witness is a young boy silenced by fear...

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

Today's episode features Tara June Winch discussing her new novel The Yield.

The Yield is a story of Australia told across three distinct narratives; Albert Gondiwindi is writing a dictionary that he hopes will help revive his language and culture for his family when he dies. August, his granddaughter, is returning to Prosperous House to farewell her grandfather, just as the miners arrive to plunder the land for tin. While through the letters of Reverend Ferdinand Greenleaf we are taken back to the founding of Prosperous House and see exposed the racism and discrimination at the heart of these relations a century earlier.

The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival is a celebration of the stories of murder and mystery that offer us so much entertainment and insight into our world. The festival is joined this year by the announcement of The Ned Kelly Awards, Australia's premier celebration of crime writing.

Join Andrew in conversation with BAD Sydney artistic director Catherine Du Peloux Menage and find out who won and why we love crime writing so much!

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

Today's episode takes us back to the Australian Classics Book Club.

The Plains opens on an unnamed narrator arriving on the plains with the intention of making a film that will show the plains as they have never been seen. Haunting the local pub, talking with plainsmen about their world, our narrator seeks the patronage and influence that will allow him to realise his epic project. Later in the library of his benefactor; a plains landowner we enter the world of his creative process and confront the strange realities that make up plains life.

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

Today's episode features Helen Fox discussing her new novel How it Feels to Float.

Biz is seventeen and lives near the beach in Wollongong. She’s got her posse at school and her best friend Grace.

She’s also got her dad and they talk, often. The only thing is Biz’s dad died when she was seven, so she can’t exactly tell anyone about these conversations.

Biz’s world is full of the daily struggles of those who are simultaneously trying to assert their identities and find their tribe. After a traumatic encounter, Biz finds herself ostracised by her friends and adrift, suffering in her own private world.

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

Today's episode features Ginger Gorman discussing Trollhunting.

Trollhunting delves into the world of online trolls and the ways their activities shape the digital and irl lives we lead. It’s a deep dive into the activity of trolls and their networks targeting vulnerable individuals. The book explores research into the costs human, social and monetary of trolling and the ways trolling exerts control and inflicts damage on so many lives.

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

Today's episode features Elizabeth Bryer discussing her new novel From Here on, Monsters.

Cameron Reybould is an antiquarian bookseller in a city not so different to our own. Her store is a haven, as all bookstores are to readers. Then one morning she arrives to find a stranger asleep on her couch.

The mysterious appearance of Jhon heralds a break in another mystery; the translation of a rare codex Cameron has been commissioned to value.