Julia's Book Club - Highway 13

In this month’s Book Club episode, Julia Gillard and her co-host Sarah Holland-Batt explore Highway 13 by internationally acclaimed Australian author Fiona McFarlane. The award-winning book is a series of loosely connected short stories focusing on the lives of everyday people who have all been affected by a single serial killer in a small Australian town. Paul Biga is arrested and charged over the brutal murders of at least a dozen backpackers and hitchhikers along an Australian highway in the 1990s. The reverberations of his crimes stretch far and wide, with McFarlane delving into the past and the future, and across continents, to explore the impact on those with strong links to the killer, as well as those with an interest in the case. Julia and Sarah discuss how the book connects to real life cases and places and which stories left the biggest impression on them . Show notes: Highway 13 is published by Allen & Unwin and available in most good book shops. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Julia's Book Club - Highway 13 is an episode from A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard by A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard.

This episode is 33:39 long.

This episode was published on Oct 1, 2025.

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