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…

Mel chats with author Nina Kenwood, whose debut novel It Sounded Better in My Head won the 2018 Text Prize of YA and Children’s Writing. Self-describing it as a ‘book with no villains’…

Celebrating The Big Issue’s 15th Fiction Edition, deputy editor Kathrine Smyrk chats to Backstory host Mel about the curating of another bumper issue of short stories penned by established and emerging writers.

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