Good Reading Podcast

Mar 03 2025 355 ep. 22 mins 339

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Book talk and author interviews aimed at helping you discover your next favourite read, presented by Good Reading Magazine.

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'How to Be Normal' Q&A with author Ange Crawford and Cerdon College Merrylands

Mar 03 2025 17 mins

Anne Crawford is the winner of the the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize. With themes including coercive control, coming of age, and finding yourself, her debut young adult novel, How to be Normal, authentically deals with timely issues with insight, sympathy and well crafted humour. Six students at Cerdon College in Merrylands, NSW, caught up with Anne to ask her about her i

Judy Friedlander on her new book for kids, 'The Bee Squad: Boosting Biodiversity in Your Neighbourhood'

Feb 10 2025 21 mins

From the coast of Western Australia to Sydney’s suburbs, young people are discovering nature in their neighbourhoods and setting up nesting boxes for birds, cleaning up waterways, planting to attract bees and koalas, and building insect hotels. They’re learning about amazing native species and finding ways to protect them. The Bee Squad inspires you to take part in these exciti

Porscia Lam on a life changing journey in 'The Unlocking: An Autism Story'

Feb 03 2025 25 mins

The Unlocking: An Autism Story unfolds in pandemic-stricken Melbourne, charting one family’s desperate battle against the escalating behavior of their autistic toddler. Amid the lack of in-person services, Harry exhibits severely restricted eating, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, crippling separation anxiety, and a demand avoidance that impedes every function in his young life.

Ronni Salt on her debut crime thriller about guns, drugs and small town life in 'Gunnawah'

Dec 29 2024 18 mins

When nineteen-year-old farm girl Adelaide Hoffman applies for a cadetship at the Gunnawah Gazette, she sees it as her ticket out of a life too small for her. The paper's owner, Valdene Bullark, seeing something of the girl she once was in young Adelaide, puts her straight to work. What starts as a routine assignment covering an irrigation project soon puts Adelaide on the trail of

Judy King on a childhood betrayed and reclaimed in 'Agnes'

Dec 22 2024 21 mins

After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia, the country of her birth, at the behest of her aging, narcissistic mother. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy she now entertains a hope that burning questions will be answered, haunting mysteries solved, and buried memories encouraged into the light. Something has blighted her life since childhood. Something has

Garth Nix on his new novel for kids, 'We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord'

Nov 17 2024 17 mins

All Kim wants to do is play Dungeons & Dragons with his friends and ride his bike around the local lake. But he has always lived in the shadow of his younger sister. Eila is a prodigy, and everyone talks about how smart she is, though in Kim's eyes, she has no common sense. So when Eila finds an enigmatic, otherworldly globe which gives her astonishing powers, Kim not only has

Isobelle Carmody on a reluctant hero on an epic quest into an alternative dream world in 'Comes the Night'

Nov 17 2024 20 mins

Will Helloran is sixteen years old and lives with his father in the Canberra dome complex that protects its inhabitants from the corrosive atmosphere outside. At night his dreams are haunted by his beloved uncle Adam, who unexpectedly died in his sleep almost a year ago. As the nightmares grow increasingly disturbing, Will comes to believe that his uncle's death may have been suspi

Chris Baker on life, love, memory and taking the plunge in 'Swimming Sydney'

Nov 02 2024 29 mins

Swimming Sydney is a tale of 52 swims in and around Sydney that take place over a calendar year. From Palm Beach to Cronulla, Mount Druitt to Bondi, Chris Baker swims at iconic beaches, municipal pools, harbour baths, tidal rock pools, bushland lakes and a backyard pool. Taking his weekly plunges, Baker reflects on friendship, history and family, and how swimming can help us better

Chris Hammer on small town crime and blood relatives in 'The Valley'

Oct 30 2024 18 mins

A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley, but this is no ordinary case. Ivan and Nell are soon contending with cowboy lawyers, conmen, bullion thieves and grave robbers. But it's when Nell discovers the victim is a close blood relative that the past begins to take on a looming significance. What did take place in The Valley all those years ago? What was

Melissa Lucashenko on her 2024 Historical Novel Society award-winning novel, 'Edenglassie'

Oct 23 2024 17 mins

When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny. Together they care for obstinate centenarian Granny Eddie, and sparks