Episodes

  • S11 Ep6: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26

    S11 Ep6: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26
    Jan 25 2026

    Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices.

    In early December 2025, Shelley Dark launched her second novel, Son of Hydra, with book coach Hayley Saunders at the Noosa Library.

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    45 mins
  • S11 Ep5: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26

    S11 Ep5: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26
    Jan 11 2026

    Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices.

    Alexandria Burnham’s debut novel, Swallow, through Westwords Publication, was launched by Lauren Chater at the HNSA History Unbound Festival dinner, held in Parramatta in November 2025.

    www.westwords.com.au/product/swallow/
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    32 mins
  • S11 Ep4: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26

    S11 Ep4: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26
    Dec 28 2025

    Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices.

    Wendy J. Dunn launched her new novel, Shades of Yellow, on November 15th, 2025, at Eltham Library in Melbourne. Dr Anne Casey gave an enthusiastic invocation, followed by Wendy’s response and reading from the novel.

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    31 mins
  • S11 Ep3: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26

    S11 Ep3: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26
    Dec 14 2025
    Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices.

    Konrad Muller’s debut novel, My Heart at Evening, is published by a new imprint, Evercreech Editions. In November 2025, Konrad chatted with Rodney Croome at the Devonport Library about the novel’s recreation of the final days of colonial surveyor, artist and amateur botanist Henry Hellyer.

    https://www.evercreecheditions.com/shop
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    43 mins
  • S11 Ep2: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26

    S11 Ep2: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26
    Dec 7 2025
    Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices.

    Nicole Alexander travelled a long and winding road to promote her new novel, The Limestone Road. In September, she spoke with Goondiwindi Shire Councillor Susie Kelly at the Goondiwindi Library.

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    49 mins
  • S11 Ep1: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26

    S11 Ep1: Imagining the Past—Summer Mesclun Season—2025/26
    Nov 24 2025
    Imagining the Past Summer Season is here. Enjoy catching up with book launch discussions featuring your favourite authors and new voices.

    Death at Booroomba is Alison Booth’s ninth novel, a deeply evocative historical whodunnit. It was launched at Gleebooks in Sydney in September 2025. Published through Ventura Press, Jane Curry was the session's convener.

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    45 mins
  • S10 Ep8: Imagining the Past—2025—Jane Harrison

    S10 Ep8: Imagining the Past—2025—Jane Harrison
    Oct 20 2025
    Greg Johnston chats with Jane Harrison about her novel, The Visitors, and its long and winding road to being long-listed for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize.

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    39 mins
  • S10 Ep7: Imagining the Past—2025—Beverley McWilliams

    S10 Ep7: Imagining the Past—2025—Beverley McWilliams
    Oct 6 2025
    Greg Johnston chats to Beverley McWilliams about her second CYA novel, Spies in the Sky, which flew into first place in the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize – CYA category.

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    34 mins