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Reading Between Deadlines is a twice-monthly podcast with Aussie authors Anthea Hodgson and Rachael Johns. Each month, we unpack a trending book in one episode and interview the author of Rachael’s Book Club Pick in the other.

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  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    Tricia Stringers makes us read THE GIVER OF STARS (opens the original)

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    Listen above or on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or if you want to SEE us in all our glory… watch at the bottom of this post. And if you LOVE the pod, please consider leaving us a review. This episode's book: THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes is an historical novel inspired by the real-life Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky. Set during the Great Depression, it follows a group of very different women who travel on horseback through the mountains to deliver books to isolated communities. It’s a story

  2. Issue · Sep 13, 2026

    We Read REBECCA by Daphne Du Maurier (opens the original)

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    Hi DeadlinersWe hope you enjoy this latest edition of Reading Between Deadlines. Our whole purpose here is to read HYPED books and unpack whether we a) agree with the hype and b) can understand WHY this book has reached such heights. Today, we’re going back in time and reading one of THE most popular books of all time…This episode’s pick: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, a classic “gothic” novel about a young bride who marries a dashing older man after a very quick courting (can we even call it tha

  3. Issue · Aug 29, 2026

    Fiona McArthur makes us read Junkyard Cats (opens the original)

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    Listen above or on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or if you want to SEE us in all our glory… watch at the bottom of this post. And if you LOVE the pod, please consider leaving us a review. This episode's book: Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novella and the first in the Junkyard Cats series. Set in a world recovering from the war and the arrival of mysterious alien Bugs, it follows Shining Smith, who runs the junkyard left to her by her father. But Shining has sec

  4. Issue · Aug 13, 2026

    We Read THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF by Evelyn Clarke (opens the original)

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    Hi DeadlinersWe hope you enjoy this latest edition of Reading Between Deadlines. Our whole purpose here is to read HYPED books and unpack whether we a) agree with the hype and b) can understand WHY this book has reached such heights. Well, today we are chatting about a book that got a LOT of hype when it was announced last year and the BIG mystery was WHO were the two author behind the pseudonym Evelyn Clarke. This episode’s pick: THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF by Evelyn Clarke

  5. Issue · Jul 27, 2026

    Tamara Moss makes us read Daddy Long Legs (opens the original)

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    Listen above or on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or if you want to SEE us in all our glory… watch at the bottom of this post. And if you LOVE the pod, please consider leaving us a review. This episode's book: Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster is a delightful epistolary novel, first published in 1912 as a serialisation for Ladies Home Journal. At the time it was classified as a “college girl book” and is the story of hard-on-her luck Jerusha, who comes into a bit of luck with Mr Smith (who she nicknam

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