'Every hack is a heist and every heist is a hack.' Jack Parlabane is back.
How long can you hold your breath, how deep can you dive, how far will you go in a relationship?
Remember the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, that swept all other books before it a few years ago? Jennifer Egan’s back, and her new novel Manhattan Beach travels to entirely different places and times.
Gay working class Western Sydney noir, with a Greek accent.
What has shaped the work and imagination of crime writer Denise Mina?
When all the Jewish residents in a small Ukrainian town were told to line up and be counted in 1941, what happens to the two small boys who run away and hide instead?
Young American writer Brit Bennett has written a powerful novel of secrets, small towns and friendship.
Multi-award winning Australian writer Sophie Laguna reveals what's on her current Top Shelf.
A lonely poet leaves a message in a bottle in 1932 - 'Telephone Helensburgh 120 and ask for Wystan' - and it's picked up by a lonely poet in the present. She calls, he answers, and they become friends across time.
In a world of fantasy, with dragons and magic, you have to get the horses and the nails and the practicalities right to make it believable. If you do that, living ships too aren't such a stretch.
Can you imagine the NSW coast in 1796, 1900 and then 2717?
Frost giants, dwarfs, gods and monsters create the world and create mayhem. And writer Neil Gaiman is delighted to retell these ancient stories.
Writer Lisa McInerney presents an Ireland of complex characters, working class lives, drugs and drinking and violence and warmth.
"There's something about that hidden midnight tunnel to the outside world that makes you feel, if you were watching it as a lonely kid who really didn't connect to you surroundings and you saw this really weird, really compelling thing on the TV, you felt almost as if you had phantom company."
How many novels have you read that are set in London?
Somewhere on the coast of South Australia, the gulf between these characters looms large. But Skye and her little brother Ben stick together.
Novelist and US Young People's Poet Laureate Jacqueline Woodson marched from the New York Public Library to Trump Towers to deliver a pointed message to the new political establishment. She wasn't alone.
Stephen Romei, Literary Editor of The Australian, joins Kate and Cassie to discuss new releases of 2018.
A conversation with Michael Cathcart, Sarah Kanowski, Sarah L'Estrange and Kate Evans about the shape of their reading years.
Broadcaster, publisher, reader Jennifer Byrne reflects on her eleven years presenting ABC TV's Book Club.