The Book Podcast

The Book Podcast


Latest Episodes

Ep.165 Symphony for the Man by Sarah Brill. New releases with Cassie Hamer. Not Just Books, Burnie Tasmania. Pamela Freeman’s writing class
August 10, 2020

1999. Winter. Bondi. Harry’s been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on it. Every

Ep: 164 Carol Lefevre/Bookoccino/Pamela Freeman
August 03, 2020

In this week's episode, I talk to Carol LeFevre about her new novella Mummurations. Cassie Hamer talks book news and reviews, Independent bookstore Bookoccino joins us, and Pamela Freeman answers your writing questions.

Ep: 90 Alice Nelson – The Children’s House
July 27, 2020

Marina and her husband, Jacob were each born on a kibbutz in Israel.  They meet years later at a university in California when Jacob is a successful psychiatrist with a young son, Ben, from a disastrous marriage.  The family moves to a brownstone in Harle

Rpt. Ep:22 Sarah Bailey – The Dark Lake
July 20, 2020

A hot summer. A shocking murder. A town of secrets, waiting to explode. A brooding, suspenseful and explosive debut that will grip you from the first page to the last.

Rpt. Ep:25 Sophie Green – The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club
July 13, 2020

If you loved THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF KABUL and THE THORN BIRDS you will devour this story of five different women united by one need: to overcome the vast distances of Australia's Top End with friendshi

Rpt: Ep:26 Emma Viskic – And Fire Came Down
July 06, 2020

Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic used to meet life head-on. Now he’s struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him, and nightmares haunt his waking hours. But when a young woman is killed after ple

Rpt. Ep: 47 Louise Allan- The Sister’s Song
June 29, 2020

Set in rural Tasmania from the 1920s to the 1990s, The Sisters’ Song traces the lives of two very different sisters. One for whom giving and loving are her most natural qualities and the other who cannot forgive and forget.

Rpt. Ep: 63 Dervla McTiernan – The Ruin
June 22, 2020

It’s been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Georgian home. But he’s never forgotten the two children she left behind…This unsettling small-town noir draws us deep into the dark heart of Ireland, where c

Rpt. Ep.114 Karen Viggers – The Orchardists Daughter
June 15, 2020

Set in the old-growth eucalypt forests and vast rugged mountains of southern Tasmania, The Orchardist’s Daughter is an uplifting story about friendship, resilience and finding the courage to break free

Rpt Ep: 56 Family Skeleton by Carmel Bird
June 08, 2020

From inside her Toorak mansion, Margaret, matriarch, widow of Edmund Rice O’Day of O’Day Funerals, secretly surveys her family in the garden. Everyone, including Margaret herself, is oblivious to the secrets that threaten to be uncovered by a visiting Ame