Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for fiction, 'Smokehouse' is a collection of interlinked short stories all set in a small-town community in Southern Tasmania. Author Melissa Manning's book follows a fundamental…

Award-winning novelist and journalist Helen Garner has just released her second volume of diaries, One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987 To 1995. She joins Mel Cranenburgh on Backstory’s last show for 2020…

Author Kate Mildenhall joins Melissa Cranenburgh on Backstory to discuss her latest novel The Mother Fault, which is a dystopian thriller that follows the story of a mother trying to keep her family…

Melissa Cranenburgh is joined by Christos Tsiolkas to talk about his extended essay on Australian novelist Patrick White.