Beste Good Read podcasts (2025)

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Raina MacIntyre on science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress in 'Vaccine Nation' 31:47

1d ago31:47

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Vaccination is arguably the greatest public health achievement in history, yet the disappearance of many diseases has also seen an increased focus on the side effects of vaccines and the rise of the anti-vax movement. The COVID-19 pandemic propelled anti-vaccination sentiment into the mainstream – including from some leaders in the medical professi…

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Dianne Wolfer on the retelling of an Australian classic in 'The Colt From Old Regret' 20:27

18d ago20:27

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You may have heard the story of the man from Snowy River and his fearless ride through the mountains. This is Colt’s story, of nickering mares and a rearing stallion. How did Colt escape the man? What did Colt see, feel and smell as he charged through the bush?Beloved children’s author Dianne Wolfer responds to The Man from Snowy River, creating an…

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Dianne Wolfer and Erica Wagner on the retelling of an Australian classic in 'The Colt From Old Regret' 20:27

18d ago20:27

20:27

You may have heard the story of the man from Snowy River and his fearless ride through the mountains. This is Colt’s story, of nickering mares and a rearing stallion. How did Colt escape the man? What did Colt see, feel and smell as he charged through the bush? Beloved children’s author Dianne Wolfer responds to The Man from Snowy River, creating a…

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Stephen Gapps on Australia's unknown colonial history 'Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844' 25:52

29d ago25:52

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The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance ended in 1824 with a series of massacres conducted by settlers in the Bathurst region. From the 1830s, colonists began occupying more and more Aboriginal land across western New South Wales and stocking it with sheep and cattle. By 1838, a dramatic fightback began across the entire frontier of the colony. What …

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Kate Grenville on her Australian family pilgrimage in 'Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place 32:09

29d ago32:09

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‘What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?’ Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her success and fame as a writer exploded when she published The Secret River in 2005, a bestseller based on the story of her convict ancestor, an early settler o…

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Stephen Gapps on his new book 'Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844 25:52

29d ago25:52

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The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance ended in 1824 with a series of massacres conducted by settlers in the Bathurst region. From the 1830s, colonists began occupying more and more Aboriginal land across western New South Wales and stocking it with sheep and cattle. By 1838, a dramatic fightback began across the entire frontier of the colony. What …

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Kate Grenville on her family pilgrimage in 'Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place' 32:09

29d ago32:09

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‘What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?’Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her success and fame as a writer exploded when she published The Secret River in 2005, a bestseller based on the story of her convict ancestor, an early settler on…

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'How to Be Normal' Q&A with author Ange Crawford and Cerdon College Merrylands 17:54

1M ago17:54

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Ange Crawford is the winner of the the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize. With themes including coercive control, coming of age, and finding yourself, her debut young adult novel, How to be Normal, authentically deals with timely issues with insight, sympathy and well crafted humour.Good Reading and six students from Cerdon College in Merryla…

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Judy Friedlander on her new book for kids, 'The Bee Squad: Boosting Biodiversity in Your Neighbourhood' 21:36

3M ago21:36

21:36

From the coast of Western Australia to Sydney’s suburbs, young people are discovering nature in their neighbourhoods and setting up nesting boxes for birds, cleaning up waterways, planting to attract bees and koalas, and building insect hotels. They’re learning about amazing native species and finding ways to protect them. The Bee Squad inspires yo…

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Judy Friedlander's new book for kids, 'The Bee Squad: Boosting Biodiversity in Your Neighbourhood' 21:36

3M ago21:36

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From the coast of Western Australia to Sydney’s suburbs, young people are discovering nature in their neighbourhoods and setting up nesting boxes for birds, cleaning up waterways, planting to attract bees and koalas, and building insect hotels. They’re learning about amazing native species and finding ways to protect them.The Bee Squad inspires you…

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Porscia Lam on a life changing journey in 'The Unlocking: An Autism Story' 25:20

3M ago25:20

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The Unlocking: An Autism Story unfolds in pandemic-stricken Melbourne, charting one family’s desperate battle against the escalating behavior of their autistic toddler. Amid the lack of in-person services, Harry exhibits severely restricted eating, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, crippling separation anxiety, and a demand avoidance that impedes ev…

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Ronni Salt on her debut crime thriller about guns, drugs and small town life in 'Gunnawah' 18:30

4M ago18:30

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When nineteen-year-old farm girl Adelaide Hoffman applies for a cadetship at the Gunnawah Gazette, she sees it as her ticket out of a life too small for her. The paper's owner, Valdene Bullark, seeing something of the girl she once was in young Adelaide, puts her straight to work. What starts as a routine assignment covering an irrigation project s…

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Judy King on a childhood betrayed and reclaimed in 'Agnes' 21:20

4M ago21:20

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After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia, the country of her birth, at the behest of her aging, narcissistic mother. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy she now entertains a hope that burning questions will be answered, haunting mysteries solved, and buried memories encouraged into the light. Something has blighted her li…

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Garth Nix on his new novel for kids, 'We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord' 17:24

5M ago17:24

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All Kim wants to do is play Dungeons & Dragons with his friends and ride his bike around the local lake. But he has always lived in the shadow of his younger sister. Eila is a prodigy, and everyone talks about how smart she is, though in Kim's eyes, she has no common sense. So when Eila finds an enigmatic, otherworldly globe which gives her astonis…

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Isobelle Carmody on a reluctant hero on an epic quest in 'Comes the Night' 20:58

5M ago20:58

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Will Helloran is sixteen years old and lives with his father in the Canberra dome complex that protects its inhabitants from the corrosive atmosphere outside. At night his dreams are haunted by his beloved uncle Adam, who unexpectedly died in his sleep almost a year ago. As the nightmares grow increasingly disturbing, Will comes to believe that his…

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Isobelle Carmody on a reluctant hero on an epic quest into an alternative dream world in 'Comes the Night' 20:58

5M ago20:58

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Will Helloran is sixteen years old and lives with his father in the Canberra dome complex that protects its inhabitants from the corrosive atmosphere outside. At night his dreams are haunted by his beloved uncle Adam, who unexpectedly died in his sleep almost a year ago. As the nightmares grow increasingly disturbing, Will comes to believe that his…

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Chris Baker on life, love, memory and taking the plunge in 'Swimming Sydney' 29:24

6M ago29:24

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Swimming Sydney is a tale of 52 swims in and around Sydney that take place over a calendar year. From Palm Beach to Cronulla, Mount Druitt to Bondi, Chris Baker swims at iconic beaches, municipal pools, harbour baths, tidal rock pools, bushland lakes and a backyard pool. Taking his weekly plunges, Baker reflects on friendship, history and family, a…

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Chris Hammer on small town crime and blood relatives in 'The Valley' 18:37

6M ago18:37

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A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley, but this is no ordinary case. Ivan and Nell are soon contending with cowboy lawyers, conmen, bullion thieves and grave robbers. But it's when Nell discovers the victim is a close blood relative that the past begins to take on a looming significance. What did take place in The Val…

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Melissa Lucashenko on her HNSA award-winning novel, 'Edenglassie' 17:17

6M ago17:17

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When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny. Together they care for obstinate cen…

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Beverley McWilliams on her 2024 HNSA prize-winning novel for children, 'Spies in the Sky' 18:32

6M ago18:32

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Royal Blue is a royal racing pigeon from a long line of champions. Every morning he wakes in his comfortable loft at Sandringham House, eats the very best seeds and spends the day training with his best friend to be the fastest and strongest pigeon in Britain.But there’s a war going on, and things are changing. Then one day the King himself comes t…

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Melissa Lucashenko on her 2024 Historical Novel Society award-winning novel, 'Edenglassie' 17:17

6M ago17:17

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When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny. Together they care for obstinate cen…

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Beverley McWilliams on her 2024 Historical Novel Society prize-winning novel for children, 'Spies in the Sky' 18:32

6M ago18:32

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Royal Blue is a royal racing pigeon from a long line of champions. Every morning he wakes in his comfortable loft at Sandringham House, eats the very best seeds and spends the day training with his best friend to be the fastest and strongest pigeon in Britain. But there’s a war going on, and things are changing. Then one day the King himself comes …

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Kathy Mexted on the incredible stories of Australian women who reach for the sky in 'Take Flight' 19:14

6M ago19:14

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From balancing on a wingtip to circling with eagles, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have leapt, tumbled and dived, and reached for the stars. Helicopter pilot Alida Soemawinata ascends over Kata Tjuṯa. Paramotor pilot Sacha Dench follows migrating swans from the Arctic tundra to the English countryside. Birdwoman Stef Walter …

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Emily Rodda on her epic three part fantasy adventure, 'Landovel' 18:55

7M ago18:55

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Derry knows no other life than that of a captive on Cram's Rock, shunned by the other young prisoners for being Cram's poison taster. Until the day everything changes, when a traveller arrives, on the run from the sinister El executioners. She leaves Derry with a magical notebook full of secrets, secrets that might hold the key to Derry's destiny –…

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Tim Winton on a story of catastrophe, survival and the power of humanity in 'Juice' 22:42

7M ago22:42

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Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place – middens of twisted iron, rusty wire, piles of sun-baked trash. They’re exhausted, traumatised, desperate now. But as a refuge, this is the most promising place they’ve seen. …

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Justin Fox on the pathway to his first novel, 'Quietly Waiting' 15:15

7M ago15:15

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Justin Fox on the pathway to his first novel, 'Quietly Waiting'Tanya is a strong, independent young woman living in England. Surrounded by limitless possibilities, her biggest fear is not being able to find her true place in the world. Never usually driven by emotions, her world is turned upside down when she meets Evan. Evan is instantly her soulm…

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Dr Norman Swan on his latest book, 'So You Want to Know What's Good For Your Kids?' 28:48

7M ago28:48

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We all want our kids to grow into happy, healthy adults and the first ten years count more than any other time in our lives. So what should we be doing to give them the best chance? Most books on childhood stop at age five and start again in adolescence. They miss the critical primary school age years leading to adolescence - the years that make al…

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Sean Williams, Connor Chamberlain and John Goodwin on the 40th Volume of 'Writers of the Future' 32:51

8M ago32:51

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L. Ron Hubbard created the Writers of the Future Writing Contest in 1983 to provide "a means for new and budding writers to have a chance for their creative efforts to be seen and acknowledged." The 559 winners and published finalists of the Writing Contest have published over 8,000 novels and short stories, created 36 New York Times bestselling no…

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Science fiction author Sean Williams, illustrator Connor Chamberlain and John Goodwin on the 40th Anniversary Volume of 'Writers of the Future' 32:51

8M ago32:51

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L. Ron Hubbard created the Writers of the Future Writing Contest in 1983 to provide "a means for new and budding writers to have a chance for their creative efforts to be seen and acknowledged." The 559 winners and published finalists of the Writing Contest have published over 8,000 novels and short stories, created 36 New York Times bestselling no…

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Elifie Shiosaki on the galaxy of Noongar stories in her new poetry collection, 'Refugia' 25:50

8M ago25:50

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'Refugia' is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar Elfie Shiosaki. Inspired by the beeliar (Swan River) and the NASA James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of science, this collection draws on colonial archives to contest the occupation of Noongar Country. As the bicentennial year of the colony …

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Elfie Shiosaki on the galaxy of Noongar stories in her new poetry collection, 'Refugia' 25:50

8M ago25:50

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'Refugia' is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar Elfie Shiosaki. Inspired by the beeliar (Swan River) and the NASA James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of science, this collection draws on colonial archives to contest the occupation of Noongar Country. As the bicentennial year of the colony …

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Shelley Davidow on love in Berlin and the creative urge in 'The Girl With the Violin' 20:23

10M ago20:23

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It's 1989 and for a young Jewish-Australian violinist, a scholarship to Berlin is the chance of a lifetime. Germany is on the verge of change as the wall is torn down, and Susanna is swept along by the tumultuous event. Under the careful guidance of Stefan Heinemeyer, her renowned violin teacher and the grandson of a Nazi, she begins a composition …

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Michael Robotham on twenty years of crime fiction and his new thriller, 'Storm Child' 18:55

10M ago18:55

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The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away, ever since she was held prisoner as a child - a child whose rescue captured hearts and headlines. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven's mission is to guide her to something near normality. But today, on a British beach, seventeen bodies wash up in front of them. There is only one survi…

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Katherine Allum on her debut novel set in the American Southwest, 'The Skeleton House' 21:58

10M ago21:58

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Meg’s life is woven into the fabric of St. Stephens. It’s a tapestry made of two precious children, a hidden truth, and a husband whose ideas of a perfect wife do not match her own. When Meg puts her foot down on a third kid, gets a job, and is empowered by the same book group that was meant to keep her in her place, her marriage begins to disinteg…

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