Rob Kaldor

Adam MacDougall is a former NRL star and won two premierships with the Newcastle Knights. Since retiring, Adam has turned his attention to helping men become fitter and healthier, and he outlines how to achieve this in his new book, The Man Plan. Adam spoke with us about the book and what inspired him to write it. He tells us how you can become fitter and stronger by exercising for just ten minutes a day, and how overhauling your diet doesn't mean cutting out the foods you love forever.

Jody Allen has just under half a million followers on her Facebook page, Stay at Home Mum, and now her best tips to help you save $200 a month have been collected in her new book, Live Well on Less. Jody talks to us about the importance of budgeting and meal planning, and how cleaning up a filing cabinet can uncover hundreds of dollars of savings. She tells us the hidden money traps that people can fall into and, more importantly, how to pull yourself out the traps.

Richard McHugh's debut novel, Charlie Anderson's General Theory of Lying, was recently published by Penguin Books and we chatted with him about the book and how he went from being a barrister to a published author. He talked about his writing process and what it was like writing a story about a demographic that is so often seen as the villain in modern fiction.

We spoke to C.S. Pacat just prior to the release of the second book in the Captive Prince trilogy, Prince's Gambit. She told us about the series and what it was like to finish the final novel, and gives some insight into how being published with a publishing house was different to self-publishing for her.

We spoke to bestselling author Michael Connelly while he was in town for the Sydney Writers' Festival. Michael chatted with us about how he came to be a writer, what the process of bringing his main character, LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, to life on the screen was like, and what he gets up to when he's not writing.

We caught up with Emily St. John Mandel at the Sydney Writers' Festival to talk about her Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Station Eleven. She spoke to us about the inspiration for the novel and why she focussed on Shakespeare's work, and gave us a small indication of what she'll be working on next.

We spoke with Anthony Horowitz about why he became a writer, and also why writing for children and young people is so important to him. He told us what it was like writing a Sherlock Holmes novel, and also gave a sneak peek into his upcoming James Bond novel.

We spoke with Cathryn Hein about her latest rural romance novel, The Falls. We found out why she felt compelled to write the story of Teagan Bliss, who first appeared in Rocking Horse Hill, and we discovered the inspiration behind the cheeky ram Merlin.

We were lucky enough to have a few minutes with the legendary James Patterson to ask him what prompted his shift to writing for younger readers and how he stays inspired to keep writing best-sellers.

We spoke with Alice Zaslavsky about, among other things: her new book Alice’s Food A to Z, Instagram, etymology, Melbourne, food (duh), Game of Thrones, glasses, Jamie Oliver, and why teaching young people about delicious and healthy food is so important. Don’t believe that’s possible? Listen and find out!