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Join Yumi Stynes and Artistic Director Ann Mossop as they discuss the 2026 Sydney Writers' Festival program. The pair talk about the 2026 Fe...
'Cancel culture' may seem like a 21st century invention sparked by contemporary politics and stoked by social media, sometimes with deadly c...
Detective Inspector John Rebus first hit bookshelves in 1987 as a witty Scottish crime fighter but now the legendary detective is behind bar...
In Your Favourites' Favourites, our most loved writers introduce one of their favourite authors. Bestselling Australian crime writer Michael...
Over a masterful career spanning 10 novels, a memoir and various children's books, Maggie O'Farrell has established herself as a modern lite...
Undercover agents aren't just the stuff of stories for writers Jack Beaumont and Ben Macintyre. A French intelligence officer turned spy thr...
Myths of cryptid big cats stalking the Australian landscape are as old as colonisation. In Dusk , the puma hunting Tasmania's lowlands has l...
Zoë Foster Blake is a multi-talented and ambitious novelist, beauty journalist and skincare entrepreneur whose bio is long enough to le...
On 30 April 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian embassy in London and took 26 hostages in what would become a six-day siege. Millions aro...
As politicians and analysts attempt to manoeuvre with the global superpower, these writers reflect on how the 20th century got the nation wh...
Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner Catherine Chidgey's 9th novel, The Book of Guilt, sparked an international bidding war. With undertones o...
This trio of Australian literary talents make writing a family affair. The Moriarty sisters, Jaclyn (the Kingdom and Empires series), Liane...
Every family has a secret but not every family has a memoirist to reveal it to the world. Writer and former restaurant reviewer Candice Chun...
Space, in all its awe-inspiring, mind-blowing expanse, is still the final frontier. Its greatness and grandness force us to reflect on our h...
After a lifetime of bringing Shakespeare's female characters to life on stage, multi-award-winning British actor Harriet Walter lends them h...
[Content warning: sexual assault] Feminism has a checkered past, but what can we expect from feminist ideas these days? CEO of independent n...
Rumaan Alam's Entitlement probes complex racial and social dynamics much like his New York Times bestselling Leave the World Behind , which...
International bestselling novelists Liane Moriarty and David Nicholls share the experience of seeing their powerful local stories turn into...
Wars, coups and economic and climate crises: each new headline can make it feel like the world is suddenly falling apart. But behind many dr...
After the success of her two best known works, The Secret River , adapted for stage and television, and Restless Dolly Maunder , shortlisted...
Stories about brotherhood are a mainstay of classical writing, from brothers Romulus and Remus to brothers-in-arms Achilles and Patroclus. F...
Colm Tóibín returns to the world of Brooklyn – adapted into a BAFTA- and Oscar-nominated film starring Saoirse Ronan &nd...
Home is a beginning, an origin, a safe harbour, a memory or a dream. Some homes we arrive at, some find us and some we make ourselves. Inter...
The Safekeep , the debut novel from Yael van der Wouden, took the literary world by storm when it was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize....
Jessica Townsend, one of Australia's bestselling and most loved authors, discusses the highly anticipated fourth book in The New York Times...
Distinguished international and local writers working across the crime genre unpick the relationship between fact and fiction. Miles Frankli...
Torrey Peters burst onto the literary scene in 2021 with her debut novel, Detransition, Baby , which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut N...
Meet the baking besties who are queens of the Australian pastry game. Nadine Ingram of Sydney's Flour and Stone, Natalie Paull of Melbourne'...
The Ministry of Time landed on multiple bestseller lists thanks to its highly original, genre-defying story, which combines elements of time...
It seemed improbable enough in 2016, but here we are now in Donald Trump's second term at the White House. What does the return of the 45th...
Beloved Irish author Marian Keyes unpacks her latest story of lost sparks and old flames and what happens when high-flyer Anna swaps New Yor...
In 1998, at the beginning of his esteemed career as an international human rights lawyer, Philippe Sands was invited to advise Augusto Pinoc...
The dead permeate the supernatural and strange worlds of Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez. Sometimes they're simple ghosts, but other tim...
Acclaimed columnist and political commentator Peter Beinart issues a bold appeal to rewrite the narrative of Jewish identity to embrace nuan...
On the one hand, food is about comfort, love and passion. On the other, it's about the economics of the restaurant rat race and the politics...
On the International Space Station, a team of astronauts watch our big blue planet as it silently turns beneath them. This 2024 Booker Prize...
Artificial intelligence's collision with human creativity is one of the most important stories of our time. With the accelerating impact of...
Local treasure Dylin Hardcastle and international gems Alan Hollinghurst and Yael van der Wouden trace love, longing and queer experience th...
Festival favourite State of the Nation returned bigger and better than ever this year for an Australian post-election wrap-up. Assess the st...
We closed out the 2025 Festival with an address from award-winning Australian writer Anna Funder. As a writer who places being human at the...
[Content warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners should be aware that this podcast contains reference to deceased persons.]...
What enables writers to grow and flourish? Writing is mostly a solitary pursuit that draws on individual reserves of talent and skill. But w...
The novel has continued to evolve since its inception as a major literary form centuries ago. It has seen styles and genres come and go, ada...
Join Benjamin Law and Artistic Director Ann Mossop as they discuss the 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival program. The pair talk about the 2025 F...
Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood invite us onto the Country they call home in Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra , reflecting on life after publishi...
We all know the importance of literacy for school and life, but what happens when, despite all your efforts, reading just doesn't "click"? S...
Jennifer Croft, Bri Lee and Louise Milligan have earned widespread acclaim in the realms of translation, non-fiction and investigative journ...
Explore the literary histories of Charmian Clift, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower. Following her biography The Life and Myth of Charm...
Humankind stands at a crossroads: will artificial intelligence make us superhumanly productive, liberating us from life's most mundane tasks...
Robyn Davidson once described Unfinished Woman as an "infinite book". "I feel absolutely that I have to write it and absolutely that I can't...