A podcast in Spanish about the library services and collections at Greater Dandenong Libraries.

A podcast in Dari about the library services and collections at Greater Dandenong Libraries.

Listen to library staff member Celine talk about the French language collection plus other services and programs available at Greater Dandenong Libraries.

In this months episode we have a special guest reading from award winning author Garry Disher from his new novel Days End. We bookchat about the YA fantasy novel The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni and have book reviews of Violetta by Isabel Allende and the Kanopy film Drunk on too much life by Michelle Melles . Lastly we have a sustainability Bookmatch segment with some great resources on How to break up with plastic.

In this month's bumper episode we have a special guest interview with Akuch Kuol Anyieth about her memoir Unknown. We tempt you to try some Fantasy titles with the So you think you don't like segment, and our bookchat is on the non-fiction title Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. Plus we have a segment on books that have been turned into movies and Library staff reviews of Other Houses by Paddy O'Reilly and House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma.

In this month’s episode we discuss the novel One Hundred days by Alice Pung and we have a special guest reading from Melbourne Writers Festival author Else Fitzgerald from her book Everything Feels Like the End of the World.

We have reviews of Stolen Focus by Johann Hari and Untamed by Glennon Doyle and lastly we have some interesting low-cost costume ideas for parents for children’s book week.

In this month’s episode we book chat about the domestic thriller The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth and we have reviews of The Way of Dog by Zana Fraillon and Kindred by Octavia Butler. In Our So You Think You Don't Like segment we look at True Crime and recommend some intriguing real life crime stories.

In this episode we bookchat about Life Mode On by Dr Joanne Orlando, The So You Think You Don’t Like segment this month is Literary Fiction, and we review Feed by M T Anderson and Open Water by Caleb Azumah . We also have a programs update and invite you to join in the Warm Winter Read. Finally, we have a shout out to some departing members of the podcast team. We hope you enjoy this episode, please see the show notes for links to books, programs and events discussed.

In this month’s episode we discuss the Garth Nix fantasy novel The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, and one of our new Junior Library Officers gives us some of their favourite reading recommendations. In our So you think you don’t like… segment we look at thrillers and have some excellent ones for you to try, even if you think thrillers are not for you. Lastly we have staff reviews of All Systems Red by Martha Wells and The Mother by Jane Caro.

In this month’s episode we discuss the book How it Feels to Float by Australian author Helena Fox, and we give a BookMatch recommendation for local young adult fantasy novels. We also review Emily Maguire’s Love Objects and India Desjardins’ A Story About Cancer (With a Happy Ending), and give an update on programs coming up in our libraries.