Hospital (PB) (Miles Franklin longlist 2024)

Sanya Rushdi

In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med...

Question 7

Richard Flanagan

Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...

Look Who's Talking (the Bad Guys: Episode 18)

Aaron Blabey

Forget what you know. This book changes everything. Someone’s found her voice and she has a lot to tell you. Take a deep breath, hermano, it’s The Bad Guys: Episode 18....

Losing the Plot

Annaleise Byrd

A tremendous whooshing noise started up. It sounded like a million pages being riffled at once. I caught a strong whiff of gingerbread. Then The Complete Fairytales of the Brothers Grimm flew open and a human-shaped blur came shooting out … Basil Beedon and Terry Clegg are neighbours, and that's all the...