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MTA Paul Ham
Critically acclaimed historian, Paul Ham, was in discussion with Hugh Mackay on his new book The Soul A History of the Human Mind , from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief in the great religions and political systems. Paul Ham embarks on a journey that has never been attempted: to restore the idea of the soul to the human story and to show how belief in, and beliefs arising from, the soul/mind have animated and driven the history of humankind.
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Meet the author - Leigh Boucher And Michelle Arrow
Leigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow were in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on their book, with Barbara Baird and Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia, an insightful examination of the collective and cumulative impact gender and sexuality activism has had on citizenship in Australia.
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Meet The Author- Cassandra Pybus
Cassandra Pybus was in conversation with Mark McKenna on her new bookVery Secret Trade. The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania. She has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history.
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Meet the author - Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham
Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham were in conversation with Julieanne Lamond on their new book Hazzard and Harrower. The Letters. Olubas, Hazzard’s official biographer, and Wyndham, who interviewed both Hazzard and Harrower, deliver an extraordinary account of two literary luminaries, their complex relationship and their times.
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Meet the author - Allen Behm
Allan Behm was in conversation with Mark Kenny on his new book The Odd Couple: the Australia-America relationship, a provocative narrative about recalibrating the relationship between Australia and the USA to deliver peace and prosperity rather than conflict and disharmony.
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Meet the author - Nick Bryant
Nick Bryant was in conversation with Mark Kenny on his new book The Forever War, which tells the story of how America’s political polarisation is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found in its troubled past.
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Meet the author - Jennifer Rayner
Jennifer Rayner was in conversation with John Uhr on her new book Climate Clangers: The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action. It calls out three bad ideas that are blocking action on climate change at the speed and scale we need right now.
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Meet the author - Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood were in conversation with Bill Gammage on their new book, Black Duck. A Year at Yumburra, is a personal reflection on life, Country and the consequences of Dark Emu through six seasons on Bruce Pascoe’s farm.
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Meet the author - Shankari Chandran
Miles Franklin award-winning author Shankari Chandran was in conversation with Karen Viggers on her new novel Safe Haven.
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Meet the author - Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay was in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on his new book, The Way We Are. Lessons from a lifetime of listening, in which Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future.
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Meet the author - James Bradley
James Bradley was in conversation with Beejay Silcox on his new book Deep Water: The World in the Ocean, which through the lens and narratives of the ocean, offers vital new ways of understanding and being in the world, and how we anticipate our climate future.
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Meet the author - Lech Blaine
Lech Blaine was in conversation with Mark Kenny on his new quarterly essay Bad Cop. Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics. Who is Peter Dutton, and what happened to the Liberal Party? In Bad Cop, Lech Blaine traces the making of a hardman – from Queensland detective to leader of the Opposition, from property investor to minister for Home Affairs. This is a story of ambition, race and power, and a politician with a plan.
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Meet the author - Paul Tilley
Paul Tilley was in conversation, moderated by Miranda Stewart, with Ken Henry on Paul's new book Mixed Fortunes. A History of Tax Reform in Australia. Australia's history is sprinkled with attempts at tax reform - some successful, some not. Mixed Fortunes explores these efforts at substantive change in our tax system.
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Meet the author - Louise Milligan
Award-winning writer and journalist Louise Milligan was in conversation with Amy Remeikis on Pheasants Nest, a gripping, propulsive and brilliantly original debut novel.
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Meet the author - David Lindenmayer
World-leading forest expert, Professor David Lindenmayer, was in conversation with Alex Sloan on his new book The Forest Wars, which lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export.
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Meet the author - Julia Baird
Julia Baird was in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Bright Shining. How grace changes everything. From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace.
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Meet the author - Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette was in conversation with Karen Hardy on Kathy's new novel The Revenge Club, a subversive, irreverent revenge romp.
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Meet the author - Sarah Bailey
Sarah Bailey was in conversation with Chris Hammer on her new novel Body of Lies, the latest in her award-winning Gemma Woodstock series.
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Meet the author - Andrew Leigh
Hear from Andrew Leigh in conversation with Genevieve Bell on his new book The Shortest History of Economics, a small book that tells a big story.
Meet the author - Dervla McTiernan
International best-selling author Dervla McTiernan was in conversation with Chris Hammer on her new book What Happened to Nina, an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war with each other. It also reflects on the power of social media to work both for and against victims of crime and their loved ones.
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