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Summer Edition – After The Party by Cassie Hamer

January 6, 2020 The Book Podcast

An unexpected gift left at her daughter’s fifth birthday party in the form of a little girl pitches Sydney mum Lisa Wheeldon into events both hilarious and life-changing.

Liane Moriarty meets Marian Keyes with a touch of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap in this hilarious, touching and clever novel that asks what wouldn’t you do to save a child?

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Ep. 133 Where The Dead Go – Sarah Bailey

September 10, 2019 The Book Podcast

Suspensful crime thriller. The final book in the award winning Det. Gemma Woodstock trilogy. Four years after the events of Into the Night, DS Gemma Woodstock is on the trail of a missing girl in a small coastal town.

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Ep: 124 Allegra In Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel

July 9, 2019 The Book Podcast

I can split myself in two . . . something I have to do because of Joy and Matilde. They are my grandmothers and I love them both and they totally love me but they can’t stand each other. Eleven-year-old Allegra shuttles between her grandmothers who live next door to one another but couldn’t be more different.

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Ep. 120 Unbreakable Threads

June 11, 2019 The Book Podcast

The remarkable true story of an Australian mother’s fight to free an unaccompanied Hazara boy from detention, and include him in her family.An extraordinary story of courage and kindness and the ultimate triumph of family over what, at times, seem like insurmountable odds.

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Ep. 115 Half Moon Lake – Kirsten Alexander

May 7, 2019 The Book Podcast

On a summer’s day in Louisiana, 1913, Sonny Davenport wanders away from his family’s vacation home at Half Moon Lake and never returns. Inspired by a true story, Half Moon Lake is a captivating novel about the parent-child bond, identity and what it means to be part of a family.

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Ep 112 Cassie Hamer – After The Party

April 16, 2019 The Book Podcast

An unexpected gift left at her daughter’s fifth birthday party in the form of a little girl pitches Sydney mum Lisa Wheeldon into events both hilarious and life-changing. What sort of mother abandons her child? And why has she chosen the Wheeldons?

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Ep: 71 Susan Green – How Bright Are All Things Here

July 10, 2018 The Book Podcast

Drama is a hard habit to break, and besides, life is awfully dull when it’s naked and truthful.

Glamorous, charismatic Bliss Henderson has led a flawed, fascinating life; from country Australia to the art world of 1960s London; from lust to love and loss.

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Ep:68 Anne Buist – This I Would Kill For

June 19, 2018 The Book Podcast

Psychiatrist Natalie King is the expert witness in a vicious child custody battle, and the stakes are high. Getting it wrong means handing a child over to an abuser—or depriving that child of the only father she knows.

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Ep: 61 Sally Hepworth – The Family Next Door

May 1, 2018 The Book Podcast

The safest suburbs often hold the deepest secrets.  such is the case for Essie, a mother of two.  In a moment of maternal despair she once made a terrible mistake, one she will always regret.  Essie has since recovered, but she fears what may still lurk inside her.

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Ep: 39 Nelika McDonald – Deeper than the Sea

November 28, 2017 The Book Podcast

Beth had known there were secrets folded inside Theo. But she didn’t know they were secrets about her. And what do you do when everything you thought you knew about yourself is based on a lie?

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Ep. 13 Fleur McDonald – The Missing Pieces of Us

May 23, 2017 The Book Podcast

Sometimes you have to resolve the past before you can face the future. The moving and heart-warming new novel from Fleur McDonald.s of social media

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Ep:10 Sally Hepworth ‘A Mothers Promise’

May 2, 2017 The Book Podcast

Sally Hepworth – A Mothers Promise. A novel about the unbreakable bond between mother’s and daughters.

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Ep: 1 – Sarah Armstrong

February 28, 2017 The Book Podcast

Sarah Armstrong talks about her book Promise. She can hear their five-year old daughter Charlie crying, then sees injuries on the little girl that she

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