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Book talk and author interviews aimed at helping you discover your next favourite read, presented by Good Reading Magazine.
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Matt Nable on his testosterone-fuelled high stakes crime-thriller, 'Mire' (opens the original)
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They say your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. For Dan Milligan it isn't his life ... it's memories of his dad. Dan has spent his whole life chasing something. Fast cars, leggy blondes, the rush of making a lot of money and the cocaine high to celebrate. But as the stock market plummets in 1987, his world comes crashing down. A new life on the South Coast isn't too bad. Mowing lawns is good, honest work. Most days. But other days, he tells himself he'll get back in the game. He
Dr Norman Swan on 'The Brain Cliff' and how to stay away from the edge (opens the original)
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What many of us fear, especially as we hit our forties and fifties, is not being as quick of mind. Not remembering as well as we used to. By our 60s and 70s we worry there's nothing we can do and that we are falling helplessly into an abyss which leads to dementia. Dr Norman Swan, one of Australia's most trusted doctors, shows us that we've been thinking about brain ageing the wrong way. It doesn't need to be about decline and deficit. It's about how to help our brains adapt, become resilient an
Annabel Stafford on the forgotten horrors of a Western Australian apartheid hospital (opens the original)
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When the Wet comes to Wyndham, bones wash down with the loose shale of the surrounding Bastion ranges. Year round, lost spirits wander this tiny port town on the northern tip of Western Australia. Some say they belong to the forgotten inmates of an apartheid hospital, built here in 1936 on the foundations of Social Darwinism and eugenics, theories that would reach their horrifying climax in the Holocaust. The Wanted and the Unwanted is the story of the Wyndham Native Hospital, born from a maelst
AJ Mackinnon on 'Realms of Gold: The Remarkable Return of Jack de Crow' (opens the original)
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AJ Mackinnon on 'Realms of Gold: The Remarkable Return of Jack de Crow When A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon sailed a tiny dinghy through twelve countries from North Wales to the Black Sea, he survived pirates, the English Channel, international incidents and all the disasters, big and small, that can befall a little boat on a long voyage. Those adventures became his beloved bestseller The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow. Decades later, that trip is a happy memory and Sandy is firmly back on land – until
Dr Barbara Lemon on a unique record of Australian history in, 'The Memory Tapes' (opens the original)
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The Memory Tapes is a new podcast from the National Library of Australia that brings history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. Drawing on one of the nation’s most significant oral history collections, the series explores remarkable stories of resilience, innovation, creativity, migration, activism and everyday life. In each episode, oral historian Dr Shirleene Robinson AM combines firsthand accounts with expert storytelling to reveal the people behind Australia’s history. Fr
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