Sarah L'Estrange

Discover the favourite books from the 21st century of Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Bradley who share their best reads for ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books.   The Book Show producer Sarah L'Estrange spoke to three acclaimed authors at Melbourne Writers Festival in the lead up to ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books countdown. Go here to vote for your favourite book of the last 25 years. Guests: Colum McCann is an Irish author of eight novels including Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon and his latest is Twist which is a tale about disconnection in this hyper connected world. Kate Grenville is the author of over 15 books of fiction and non-fiction, including her Orange Prize winning book The Idea of Perfection, The Secret River and her latest book, Unsettled, explores the personal story behind The Secret River. Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor whose bestselling debut novel The Ministry of Time is a time travel novel about immigration, history and romance. Panel's t

Dominic Amerena takes on the literary-industrial complex in his satirical debut offering set in Melbourne's western suburbs, I Want Everything.

ABC experts unpack the shortlist of Australia's biggest book prize: who made it, who missed out and who they think will win.

If you're looking to stack up your summer reading pile, here's an excellent starting point, with new releases from Rosalie Ham, Lech Blaine, Haruki Murakami and more.

The winner of the prestigious literary award — to be announced on November 12 — will take home $98,000 and receive a dramatic bump in book sales around the world.

October is always a blockbuster month in the publishing industry and this year is no exception, with new offerings from Michelle de Kretser, Robbie Arnott, Melanie Cheng and more.

A near-future debut novel about defiant young women boxers stood out to our critics this month, plus seven other books they simply could not put down.  

We’ve convened a literary cabal to look at the six authors and works vying for Australia’s most prestigious literary award.

The US has banned thousands of books since 2021, and the rate is increasing. What’s behind this wave of censorship — and are we seeing a similar trend in Australia?

Iran’s Kafka like book censorship is causing authors to flee, including writer Shokoofeh Azar who now lives in Australia. Banned Books is a new series that looks at what’s driving book bans worldwide. In this last episode, writer Shokoofeh Azar who now lives in Australia and is the author of The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree which is banned in Iran. Guests: Shokoofeh Azar - Iranian born, Australian based journalist and author The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, shortlisted for th…

A provocative debut, a revealing memoir of an open marriage and the latest novel from an Australian literary giant are among the six books shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize.

Culture, family, colonisation and resistance are some of the themes uniting these acclaimed literary works by First Nations writers from Australia.

Cannibalism, telepathy and celibacy are just some of the false claims about Australian Aboriginal people that Marlo Morgan made in her 1990s new age hit, Mutant Message Down Under, and this episode of Fakes and Frauds exposes the lies.

Much anticipated new works by winners of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Booker Prize are the books our critics couldn’t put down this month.

Need a good book to snuggle up with as temperatures drop? The stars of this June’s best books include a teacher on a road trip with a corpse, a novelist grappling with her mother’s funeral, and prisoners doomed to fight to the death.

Books about a real-life miscarriage of justice and a fictional aviatrix are among those vying for one of the world's most prestigious literary prizes.

From the secret lives of animals to the imaginary life of a First Lady; from 19th-century California to 80s Glasgow; tales of lost words, queer love and messy families — these are our favourite books of 2020.

Our favourite reads created whole worlds in single rooms or a patch of moss, spun wonder from everyday life, and transformed troubled histories into powerful contemporary fables.

Environmental dystopia, an art-historical mystery and a cracking family yarn: check out the novels that made the cut for Australia's most prestigious literary award.

When two wooden boxes carefully packed with ferns and grasses survived the six-month ocean journey from London to Sydney in 1833, gardeners rejoiced. The boxes went on to change the world.