And here's Part 2 of the belief bonanza. Still reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch, we delve a bit deeper into the border between myth, ritual and religion, the difference between lust and love and the phenomenon of vagina dentata. 

We're joined by Bre Fallon, a postgraduate Teaching Fellow in the Studies in Religion department at the University of Sydney and Maria Lewis, journalist and author of the Who's Afraid? series.

In our final book week episode, Alex & Alex talk about the books they loved as kids, grief and death in YA, what got them into reading, and spend a long time talking about Harry Potter even though Alex promised she wouldn't. 

She promised.

That's it for book week! You can listen to the rest of the special here, and find out more about Book Week here.

Our last guest for Book Week is your favorite and ours, Melina Marchetta, author of Australian classics including Looking For Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, and On The Jellicoe Road. We chat to Melina about the changes in childrens' reading behaviours, the importance of diverse stories, how your characters grow up with your readers and a tease of her next book.

 We'll be bringing you episodes with some of our favorite heroes every day this week, so stay tuned and get stoked. You can find out more about Book Week here.

This episode was not-so-silently invaded by James Bradley, author of The Silent Invasion (see what we did there?), Wrack and Clade, among others. We talk about apocalypses and dystopias through the ages, Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea, and why Australian writers shouldn't be ashamed of setting their books in Australia (even if it is in Brisbane). 

We'll be bringing you episodes with some of our favorite heroes every day this week, so stay tuned and get stoked. You can find out more about Book Week here.

Today, Niki Aken joins us for Book Week. Niki is an award-winning scriptwriter, script editor and producer, previously working on shows like Underbelly, Anzac Girls and Janet King and more recently, Chosen. We talk about Australian stories on TV and in books, the growth of voice and diversity in those stories, and Niki's problematic fav - Playing Beatie Bow. 

(This is also our first episode with a guest out of the studio - so we hope the audio is still a treat)

We'll be bringing you episodes with some of our favorite heroes every day this week, so stay tuned and get stoked. You can find out more about Book Week here.

The hits start coming and they don't stop coming. This ep, we're joined by librarian Joshua Broccoli. Come for the nice chat about Josh's fave book Animorphs (Tobias 4eva), stay for the stories about discovering bodily fluids (or just bodies) in the book return chute. 

We'll be bringing you episodes with some of our favorite heroes every day this week, so stay tuned and get stoked. You can find out more about Book Week here.

Next up on our Book Week extravaganza, it's Courtney Fry. Courtney is a journalist for Pedestrian and joined us to chat about Paul Jenning's 'Unreal Ultimate Collection', aka a kid's introduction to Australian gothic. Hear about cow dung custard, faces falling off and more. Plus, how do you get kids to read when there's so much content in the world?

We'll be bringing you episodes with some of our favorite heroes every day this week, so stay tuned and get stoked. You can find out more about Book Week here.

Continuing our journey through Book week, we're joined by friend of the show Pierce Wilcox, chatting love, loss and the guiding hand of good books - particularly Pierce's favorite, The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman. 

We also took the opportunity to let Pierce defend his dubious position as a Fan of Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. 

We'll be bringing you episodes with some of our favorite heroes every day this week, so stay tuned and get stoked. You can find out more about Book Week here.

First up for Book Week, it's Amelia Lush, Manager and Children's Specialist at Better Read Than Dead in Newtown (where we buy our books and you should too). We talk Harriet the Spy and why it was such a groundbreaking book, why Harry Potter is the series that just won't quit, and what the next big thing in YA is. 

We'll be bringing you episodes with some of our favorite heroes every day this week, so stay tuned and get stoked. You can find out more about Book Week here.

This ep, we’re discussing the fabric of faith, friendship and modern religion on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.

We're joined by Bre Fallon, a postgraduate Teaching Fellow in the Studies in Religion department at the University of Sydney and Maria Lewis, journalist and author of the Who's Afraid? series.

As always, part one is spoiler free, yiew.