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The Imagining the Past podcast series features authors who appeared at the Historical Novel Society Australasia Conference in Melbourne on 8-10 September 2017. Our host, Kelly Gardiner, disc...
In April 2026, Mary Lou Stephens launched her fourth novel, The Hobart Hotel, in the place the novel is set – Hobart’s glamorous Wrest Point...
Debra Oswald’s One Hundred Years of Betty was longlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2025. She chats with Greg Johnston about her lon...
Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices. Th...
Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices. In...
Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices. Al...
Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices. We...
Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices. Ko...
Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices. Ni...
Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices. De...
Greg Johnston chats with Jane Harrison about her novel, The Visitors , and its long and winding road to being long-listed for the 2024 ARA H...
Greg Johnston chats to Beverley McWilliams about her second CYA novel, Spies in the Sky , which flew into first place in the 2024 ARA Histor...
Greg Johnston chats to Mary-Lou Stephens about her tryptic of Tasmanian novels, all centred around various foods, The Last of the Apple Blos...
Greg Johnston chats with David Shield. His manuscript, Blind Dragon , won the 2024 Elizabeth Jane Corbet Mentorship Contest. The young adult...
Greg Johnston chats to Stephen Daisley. Originally from New Zealand’s North Island, his first novel, Traitor , won the 2011 Prime Minister’s...
Host Greg Johnston chats with Catherine McKinnon. Her 2017 novel, Storyland, was shortlisted for five literary awards, including, in 2018, t...
Greg Johnston chats with Rebecca Lim, an award-winning Australian writer, illustrator, editor and author of over twenty books. Her work has...
Greg Johnston chats with Natasha Lester, a New York Times bestselling author. Her novels The Paris Seamstress , The French Photographer , Th...
Does time run in a straight line? Is history needed to give context to a futuristic novel? Can traditional cultures be highlighted through m...
How does an author's profession (outside their role as a novelist) inform their books? Cecilia Rice will explore with Leah Kaminsky (a docto...
Fine art, luxury jewellery, espionage, royal scandal and danger. Alexandra Joel, Christine Wells and Belinda Alexandra are expert in interwe...
Author Kim Kelly interviews Judy Nunn on her love for historical fiction which have encompassed stories across diverse eras from colonial pe...
Kelly Rimmer, Victoria Purman and Nicole Alexander have conjured various characters across their many books. Greg Johnston examines their in...
Mirandi Riwoe's The Sunbirds tests the identities and loyalties between Dutch and Indonesians in colonial Java on the eve of the Japanese in...
View from the East—Christopher Cheng, Daryl Lim and Siang Lu discuss with Claudia Chan Shaw their novels, Asian histories, and the challenge...
Writer and critic Stephen Romei is in conversation with Jock Serong and Fiona McFarlane. Jock discusses part three of his Furneaux trilogy,...
In our Summer/Autumn season, we present selected sessions from our 2023 HNSA Conference. Enjoy RN's The Bookshelf host, Kate Evans, in conve...
Alison D Stegert discusses with Greg Johnston her YA novel, Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies . She also discusses her win of...
Gail Jones chats with Greg Johnston about her complex novel, Salonika Burning , which won the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize—Adult Category...
Suzanne Leal chats with Greg Johnston about her 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize, CYA shortlisted novel, Running with Ivan , some of the diff...
Lauren Chater chats with Greg Johnston about all things beautiful, including the research and writing of her new novel, The Beauties .
Melissa Lucashenko discusses with Greg Johnston the research and writing of her novel, Edenglassie.
Robbie Arnott discusses with Greg Johnston the many intricacies of writing the novel Limberlost , based on his family folklore and longliste...
Fiona Kelly McGregor discusses with Kelly Gardiner the many intricacies of writing her novel, Iris, shortlisted for the 2023 ARA Historical...
Amelia Mellor discusses with Greg Johnston the intricacies of writing CYA Historical Fiction, and her novel, The Bookseller’s Apprentice, wi...
Thomas Keneally discusses his long literary career with Greg Johnston, and his novel, Corporal Hitler’s Pistol , which won the 2022 ARA Hist...
Claire Saxby discusses with Greg Johnston the intricacies of writing CYA Historical Fiction, and her novel, The Wearing of the Green, shortl...
In this warm discussion, Robyn Mundy takes us to chilly Svalbard in the Norwegian archipelago to discuss her 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize...
Monty Soutar is an historian and author writing a trilogy— Kāwai—which tells the history of New Zealand through nine successive generations...
In this discussion, Robyn Cadwallader tells of her writing process, the research of Medieval England, and the making of myths.
Brian Falkner discusses his YA series, Kapito Joe — Blitzkrieg , Spycraft and Wolf’s Lair with Greg Johnston, exploring the slings and arrow...
Geraldine Brooks discusses her latest novel, Horse , with Greg Johnston, delving into many of the technical decisions taken to write this co...
Kate Murdoch chats with Karen Brooks, Melissa Ashley and Lauren Chater of Midwives, Storytellers and Witches: Wise Women in History
The Inside Story: A Novel’s Journey through a Publishing House. Nadine Davidoff discusses with Mandy Brett, Jamila Khodja and Kate Lloyd
Paula Morris discussed with Julie Janson and Cassandra Pybus, the idea that History is written by the victors. But when such accounts are ch...
Richard Lee, founder of the Historical Novel Society, joins international bestselling authors, Ben Kane and Colin Falconer to discuss how th...
Jackie Ballantyne explores how each author approaches common themes of revenge, love, betrayal, isolation and treachery from these very diff...
Renee Otmar discusses Writing the Other with Rachel Bin Saleh, Tim Darcy Ellis and Indrani Ganguly why questions of representation and appro...
Stephen Romei speaks with Pip Williams and Steven Carroll to tease out the intersections within their novels of hidden women’s histories.
HNSNA Chair Jenny Quinlan in conversation with Kate Forsyth and Kate Quinn.
HNSA Chair Elisabeth Storrs in discussion with Geraldine Brooks. Geraldine Brooks’ first historical novel, Year of Wonders, has proved to be...