Tim Winton talks about place, masculinity, and his new novel, The Shepherd's Hut. Also, authors Alison Lester and Jane Godwin discuss how they worked with sick kids to create their latest book, and Stefan Merrill Block on his novel Oliver Loving.

The legacy of crime writer Peter Temple and the award-winning author of The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees talks about politics, feminism, the environment and her writing process.

Lebs by Michael Mohammed Ahmad is a novel set in Western Sydney that captures the culture of the fictional Punchbowl Boys High. Also, the discovery of thousands of 'lost' Australian stories from the 19th century, three writers discuss the rise in feminist fiction for children and we go into the writing studio of creative couple Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist.

Bill Goldstein explains how the year 1922 shaped some of history's most prominent modernist writers - T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf. Plus novelist Ceridwen Dovey on her new book, a tour of Miles Franklin winner Josephine Wilson's writing room, and a potted history of the blurb.