Final Draft - Great Conversations

Dec 11 2024 400 ep. 23 mins 4
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Great conversations with authors from Australia and around the world.

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Book Club - Lech Blaine’s Australian Gospel

Dec 11 2024 4 mins  
Lech Blaine is the author of the memoir Car Crash and the Quarterly Essays Top Blokes and Bad Cop. His new work is Australian Gospel. Australian Gospel has the subtitle ‘A Family Saga’. It takes only a cursory glance at the back cover synopsis to understand why Australian Gospel works to reassure readers that this is a very real, very true story. The story contained between the

Peter FitzSimon's The Legend of Albert Jacka

Dec 06 2024 43 mins  
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Peter FitzSimons is a journalist and writer, former Wallaby and a member of the order of Australia. Peter is celebrated

Book Club - Esther Campion’s The Writing Class

Dec 04 2024 4 mins  
Esther Campion hails from Cork, but has made the North West of Tasmania her home. She is the author of Leaving Ocean Road and The House of Second Chances. Esther’s new novel is called The Writing Class. --------- We’d all like to believe we’re the authors of our own story, but when Vivian’s husband Dave abandons her, she learns the hard way there are some twists she wouldn

Emily Tsokos Purtill's Matia

Nov 30 2024 37 mins  
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Emily is a lawyer and writer of Greek heritage based in Western Australia. Her writing has been published in Westerly, G

Book Club - Emma Grey’s Pictures of You

Nov 22 2024 3 mins  
Emma Grey is a writer, novelist and photographer. Her novel the Last Love Note was a global bestseller. Her new novel is Pictures of You. At sixteen years old Evie Hudson feels too young to be married, let alone a widow. And that’s the problem, Evie’s not sixteen but the accident that killed her husband Oliver also stole her memory. Now she believes she’s a teenager. Thrown b

Mike Barry's Action Tank

Nov 17 2024 35 mins  
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Mike Barry is an award winning writer and artist. His Action Tank series has won the Comic Arts Award of Australia and h

Book Club - Emily Maguire’s Rapture

Nov 15 2024 3 mins  
Emily Maguire is the author of seven novels and has been shortlisted for the Stella, the Miles Franklin and many more awards. In Emily Maguire’s new novel Rapture, the life of a young woman in ninth century Europe is fraught at best. Under her father’s roof Agnes is indulged in her reading and stands out for her intelligence and wit. But this is no life for a girl, let alone a

Ann Liang's A Song to Drown Rivers

Nov 10 2024 35 mins  
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Ann Liang is a New York Times bestselling author of YA novels This Time It’s Real, If You Could See the Sun, and I Hop

Book Club - Tigest Girma’s Immortal Dark

Nov 08 2024 4 mins  
Tigest Girma is an Ethiopian writer based in Melbourne. Her debut novel is Immortal Dark. ----- Kidan Adane has been living a half life since the disappearance of her sister. Ever since Kidan and her sister June were rescued as children they have lived in fear that they will be discovered by the dranaics, immortal creatures who live on the blood of humans. The dranaics power has

Lauren Keegan’s All the Bees in the Hollows

Nov 03 2024 40 mins  
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Lauren Keegan is a psychologist and writer. Her debut novel is All the Bees in the Hollows. With the death of her husban