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 Dr Clare Wright discussing her latest book You Daughters of Freedom.

You Daughters of Freedom explores of the pioneering work done in Australia to gain the vote for white adult women and the influence that work, and the women who achieved it, would have across the world. In part two of the conversation Clare discusses the impact of Australia's granting the vote and the legacy of this period of democratic innovation.

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

Today's episode features Dr Clare Wright discussing her latest book You Daughters of Freedom.

You Daughters of Freedom explores of the pioneering work done in Australia to gain the vote for white adult women and the influence that work, and the women who achieved it, would have across the world. In part one of the conversation Clare explores the lead up to Federation.

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

Today's episode features the second part of the conversation on Queerstories a collection exploring ‘lives well lived from some of Australia’s finest LGBTQIA+ writers’.

Joining Andrew on the show is a fantastic panel of writers who have contributed to the collection including Liz Duck Chong, Tim Bishop and the editor of the collection Maeve Marsden.

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

Today's episode features Queerstories a collection exploring ‘lives well lived from some of Australia’s finest LGBTQIA+ writers’.

Joining Andrew on the show is a fantastic panel of writers who have contributed to the collection including Liz Duck Chong, Tim Bishop and the editor of the collection Maeve Marsden.

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

Today's episode features Rosalie Ham discussing her latest novel The Year of the Farmer.

Five years of drought have been hard on Bishop’s Corner. They’ve been hard on the whole region, but Mitchell Bishop has suffered especially since Neralie McIntosh left town for the city. Mitch is now married to Mandy and she’s hellbent on getting the respect she feels she’s owed as Mrs Bishop.

With the water authority ready to cut allocations to irrigators, no one’s got any money to pay anyone else and the town is ready to riot. And just who is the pubs new owner and what will they mean for the simmering tensions across the community?

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

Today's episode features Krissy Kneen discussing her latest novel Wintering.

Wintering transports the reader down toward the southernmost parts of Tasmania and into the lives of Jessica and Matthew. They live a secluded life in an out-of-the-way cabin until one evening Matthew fails to return home and Jessica receives a call; the police have found his car and his phone abandoned on an isolated section of road.

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

Today's episode features Katherine Collette discussing her debut novel The Helpline.

Germaine Johnson is great with numbers, people however are another matter. When Germaine finds herself out of work, the last thing she expected was to end up on the senior citizens helpline. But the mayor has just given her a special project, and her hero, a disgraced Sudoku champion has taken a particular interest in her work.

How bad could it be?

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

Today's episode features Claire Varley discussing her new novel The Book of Ordinary People.

The Book of Ordinary People follows five seemingly ordinary people across Melbourne. Each of their lives are buffeted by the cities daily grind; stuck in traffic or waiting on the train, and each must face these challenges from a unique perspective. The mother, and the family man, the young lawyer and the refugee. Each a part of the faceless mass that passes for community and each spinning closer to the other every moment.

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

Today's episode features Jane Caro discussing the third in series on the life of Elizabeth I, Just Flesh & Blood.

Just Flesh & Blood sees England’s Queen Elizabeth the first at the end of her life; still the virgin queen, but surrounded by attendants who no longer quail at her authority. Elizabeth ruled between 1558 and 1603 and we pass back and forth through her reign and come to know the woman who understands that beneath the inviolability of her crown she has always been Just Flesh & Blood.

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

Today's episode features a special preview of The Australian Classics Bookclub, a new podcast coming soon from Final Draft.

The Australian Classics book club is a monthly exploration through Australia’s writing heritage. In this special preview we’re getting into the most recent book club and discussing a living legend of Australian writing Helen Garner, and her second book Honour & Other People’s Children.