Award-winning local author Katherine Brabon joins to Mel to discuss themes in her latest book, Cure. The book explores chronic illness, mother-child dynamics, and what it's like to live with an illness without…

Former Breakfaster Sarah Smith steps in for the Spin Cycle team while they're on summer hiatus for a series of long form conversations. This week she chats with Breakfasters resident film critic, journalist…

Bardi Jawi man and recently appointed CEO and Artistic Director of the Blak and Bright Literary Festival, Bebe Oliver joins host of the Mission, Daniel James. Bebe outlines his vision for the festival…

Noongar writer Claire G. Coleman says that Enclave, her fourth novel, is just as exciting to see out in the world as her first.

Claire tells Banksia presenter Vanessa Morris that she's…

'Found, Wanting' is author Natasha Sholl's memoir about attempting to rebuild her life in the aftermath of her partner Rob's sudden death at the age of 27 years old and deal with cultural…

‘Cold Enough For Snow’ is Jessica Au’s tightly crafted, award-winning second novel that wrestles with the tension that comes with words unspoken. As mother and daughter travel through Japan together, the unbridgeable emotional…

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…

Comedian Matt Okine talks about his debut novel ‘Being Black ‘n Chicken, & Chips’, and its adaptation for a younger audience; and visual artist Tai Snaith chats about her exhibition ‘A World of…

Zoya Patel is an award-winning author, editor, founder of a feminist literary organisation and Chair of the 2021 Stella Prize judging panel. Discussing emerging themes in the stories shortlisted for the Stella Prize…

Denice Kickett, director at Books’n’Boots, speaks about re-housing books with First Nations communities in regional and remote Australia; and writer and performer Jess Knight joins writer, book reviewer and sensitivity reader Natalia Wikana…