For our first episode of 2024, Michael speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. She shares her life sentence and reflects on how her upbringing provided the perfect building blocks for a career as a writer. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Reading list:Nine Parts of Desire, Geraldine Brooks, 1994Foreign Correspondence, Geraldine Brooks, 1997March, Geraldine Brooks, 2005Horse, Geraldine Brook, 2022
Dreams of My Russian Summers, Andreï Makine, 1995We All Lived In Bondi Then, Georgia Blain, 2024A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall, 2023
You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store. 
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