Talking Aussie Books

Apr 15 2025 279 ep. 31 mins 8

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Talking Aussie Books with Cassie Hamer

Apr 15 2025 46 mins

Cassie Hamer is not only an Australian bestselling author of 3 novels - 'After the Party', 'The End of Cuthbert Close' and the 'Truth About Faking It' - but a colleague, a writing buddy and most importantly, a dear friend.This month, Cassie has a new novel out. And listener’s it’s an absolute cracker. ‘The Stranger at the Table’ published by HQ Ficti

Talking Aussie Books with Sara Foster

Apr 11 2025 42 mins

Sara Foster is a Perth-based author of six best-selling psychological suspense novels that include ‘You Don’t Know Me’ The Hidden Hours’ and ‘All that is Lost Between Us’, along with the acclaimed dystopian thriller ‘The Hush’.Two of Sara’s novels have been optioned for TV and ‘You Don’t Know Me’ - a book I have read and absolutely loved - was adapted into a

Talking Aussie Books with Victoria Brownlee

Apr 09 2025 34 mins

Listeners, I may have mentioned once or twice on the podcast before that I’m a huge francophile. So whenever I have the chance to read a book that takes me back to France or immerses me in the sensory heaven that is French food and wine, I’ll savour it like a glass of Moet and Chandon. And so when a book called ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ set in France crossed my desk earlier this

Talking Aussie Books with Sal Gallaher

Apr 05 2025 36 mins

Listeners, if you tune in regularly, I’m sure you appreciate that I read eclectically and I’m fascinated by how books come into being - whatever path that happens to take. Indie or trad, I’m interested in it all. So when my fellow writer and friend, Sal Gallaher took the plunge and decided to self-publish her debut, I was keen to have a chat about it. Sal is a writer and phot

Talking Aussie Books with Maryrose Cuskelly

Apr 04 2025 35 mins

Listeners I last spoke to my next guest, Maryrose Cuskelly, when her debut novel ‘The Cane’ was published by Allen & Unwin back in 2022. "The Cane" was an atmospheric crime novel set in a fictional sugarcane town in North Queensland in the 1970s. A terrific story reminiscent of 'The Dry' and other Australian rural and outback noir, that became an Australia

Talking Aussie Books with Fiona Hardy

Mar 27 2025 30 mins

Listeners today I’m so excited to introduce you to another Aussie author whose book has simply floored me. Fiona Hardy - a writer, bookseller and reviewer from Melbourne - is the author of a new book published by Affirm Press earlier this year called ‘Unbury the Dead’. A contemporary crime fiction novel about two best friends who are hired to undertake some morally questiona

Talking Aussie Books with Marion Taffe

Mar 24 2025 50 mins

Marion Taffe is a Melbourne-based writer who after a 20 year career as a journalist, decided to turn her hand to novel-writing. A graduate of the RMIT degree in Professional Writing and Editing, Marion was named Creative Industries Student of the Year in her graduating year of 2023. She was also runner-up in the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Prize (non-fiction) in 2022 and a

Talking Aussie Books with Chrissie Bellbrae

Mar 19 2025 35 mins

When a friend that you've been toiling alongside in the writing space for years can finally call themselves a published author, there's many reasons to celebrate. Chrissie Bellbrae is a talented Australian writer who took control of her writing career by self-publishing her debut novel 'The Florentine Quilt' early in 2025. I'd had the pleasure of reading an earl

Talking Aussie Books with Penelope Janu

Mar 07 2025 34 mins

There are many Australian writers out there producing quality book after quality book each and every year - satisfying the voracious demands of their eager fans. Penelope Janu definitely falls into that category. And if you haven’t heard of Penelope’s work as yet, then dear listeners you’re in for a treat. Penelope is a former lawyer - a longtime legal academic - whose debut

Talking Aussie Books with Kate Horan

Mar 04 2025 39 mins

Unsurprisingly, I’m very much drawn to the work of debut Australian authors. And this year, I’m delighted to be interviewing a number of them, one of whom is my next guest.Kate Horan is Sydney-based ex-English teacher who once taught at high schools in Western Sydney loving being able to inspire teenagers with a love of reading. For the last seventeen years, however, Kate has w