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August 5, 2024
<p>Hollywood star Keanu Reeves and British science fiction author China Miéville reveal how they collaborated to to write the novel The Book of Elsewhere. Plus, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of Fleishman Is In Trouble and Indigenous Australian author, Anita Heiss.</p><p><a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-book-of-elsewhere-9781529150544">The Book of Elsehwere </a>(Del Rey) is based on a comic book series that Keanu Reeves developed called BRZRKR. It's gory and it's novelisation by science fiction guru China Miéville is just as gory. Claire finds how how and why they worked together on this project.</p><p>New York writer, Taffy Brodesser-Akner talks about the difficult second novel. She had a dream run with her debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and was adapted to the screen. Her second novel, <a href="https://www.hachette.com.au/taffy-brodesser-akner/long-island-compromise-a-sensational-new-novel-by-the-international-bestselling-author-of-fleishman-is-in-trouble">Long Island Compromise</a> (Wildfire), is the saga of the Fletcher family who are a rich, Jewish family that has lived through an unimaginable ordeal and come out the other side, or have they?</p><p>And Indigenous Australian author Anita Heiss has a new work of historical fiction called <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Dirrayawadha/Anita-Heiss/9781761105272">Dirrayawadha </a>which is centred around the Wiradjuri Wars. These were the violent conflicts in and around Bathhurst between the Wiradjuri people and white settlers in the 1800s.</p>
August 1, 2024
<p>Alexis Wright is the 2024 winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Praiseworthy. She makes history as the only writer to have won both the Stella and Miles Franklin awards twice each.</p><p>Alexis first won the Miles Franklin in 2007 for her epic novel Carpentaria. Like that novel, <a href="https://giramondopublishing.com/books/alexis-wright-praiseworthy/">Praiseworthy </a>(Giramondo) - which also won the <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-book-show/alexis-wright-wins-second-stella-prize/103785274">2024 Stella Prize</a> - is an epic told on a grand scale. It's about a fictional town, a haze cloud, injustice, Indigenous land rights, global warming, and donkeys. </p><p>Alexis told Claire Nichols that there's "a lot of nutrition in a good story" and in this pod extra, she explains her vision for Australian fiction and why writing this novel was daunting. </p><p>Listen to The Book Show's guide to the Miles Franklin shortlist <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-book-show/2024-miles-franklin-shortlist/104013424">here</a>. </p>
July 29, 2024
<p>Samantha Shannon has such power as a bestselling writer that she's reissued her fantasy Bone Season series with new edits. In a revealing conversation she tells Claire Nichols what it takes to reach such heights.</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/author/samantha-shannon/">Samantha Shannon </a>was just 20 when she won a six-figure publishing deal for this series. She also has another series on the go called Roots of Chaos which begins with the bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree.</p><p>Samantha Shannon spoke to Claire Nichols at the recent Sydney Writers Festival to find out how she's navigated being published from such a young age, the challenge of being compared to J.K. Rowling and the influence of the film DragonHeart on her beginnings as a fantasy author. </p>
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