Imagining The Past

Imagining The Past

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Imagining The Past episodes

  • S11 Ep2: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26
    Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices.

    Nicole Alexander travelled a long and winding road to promote her new novel, The Limestone Road. In September, she spoke with Goondiwindi Shire Councillor Susie Kelly at the Goondiwindi Library.  

    49 min
  • S11 Ep1: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26
    Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices.

    Death at Booroomba is Alison Booth’s ninth novel, a deeply evocative historical whodunnit. It was launched at Gleebooks in Sydney in September 2025. Published through Ventura Press, Jane Curry was the session's convener. 

    46 min
  • S10 Ep4: Imagining the Past—2025—Stephen Daisley
    Greg Johnston chats to Stephen Daisley. Originally from New Zealand’s North Island, his first novel, Traitor, won the 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. Coming Rain won the Ockham Prize in 2015. A Better Place was long-listed for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. 

    1 hr 1 min
  • S10 Ep3: Imagining the Past—2025—Catherine Mckinnon
    Host Greg Johnston chats with Catherine McKinnon. Her 2017 novel, Storyland, was shortlisted for five literary awards, including, in 2018, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Barbara Jefferis Award and the Voss Literary Prize. Her second novel, the complex and textured To Sing of War, was long-listed for the 2024 ARA Hist Novel Prize adult category and highly commended. 

    Imagining the Past is commercial-free. HNSA is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit that can only continue to produce the podcasts with your support.  Please consider making a tax-deductible donation through our secure website.

    All contributions, great or small, are greatly appreciated.

    48 min
  • S10 Ep2: Imaging the Past—2025—Rebecca Lim
    Greg Johnston chats with Rebecca Lim, an award-winning Australian writer, illustrator, editor and author of over twenty books. Her work has been shortlisted for many awards, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Queensland Literary Awards.  Her CYA novel, Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky, was shortlisted for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize.

    Imagining the Past is commercial-free. HNSA is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit that can only continue to produce the podcasts with your support.  Please consider making a tax-deductible donation through our secure website.

    All contributions, great or small, are greatly appreciated.

    49 min
  • S10 Ep1: Imagining the Past—2025—Natasha Lester
    Greg Johnston chats with Natasha Lester, a New York Times bestselling author. Her novels  The Paris Seamstress, The French Photographer, The Paris Secret and The Riviera House, have been translated into many different languages and are published all around the world. The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard was long-listed for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize.

    Imagining the Past is commercial-free. HNSA is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit that can only continue to produce the podcasts with your support.  Please consider making a tax-deductible donation through our secure website. 
     
    All contributions, great or small, are greatly appreciated.

    42 min

About Imagining The Past

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The Imagining the Past podcast series is brought to you by the Historical Novel Society Australasia. We feature authors appearing at our biennial conferences or have been recognised in our $150,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize.

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