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On 4 November Hannah Kent delighted the crowd gathered at the Marion Cultural Centre Domain Theatre to listen as she and Jo Case chatted about her brand new novel, Devotion, her first novel set partially in South Australia in the Adelaide Hills. Apologies for some slight interference with the sound in the first minutes of the talk from Hannah's earrings! It does get sorted so stick with it.

Goodreads reviews are proclaiming Liane Moriarty is back! Do Jayne and Paula agree? Listen in as they discuss her latest, Apples Never Fall. Then there's the lit goss and what's new and hot, coming at you for November! Books they mention: Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty Women of a Certain Rage, editor Liz Byrski Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer Homegrown by Paul West Theroux the Keyhole by Louis Theroux You're Doing It Wrong by Kaz Cooke Up the Duff by Kaz Cooke Women's Stuff by Kaz Cooke Girl Stuff by Kaz Cooke Spy's Wife by Fiona McIntos

Bestselling and multiple award-winning author Tricia Stringer entertained the audience at the Marion Domain Theatre with insights into her writing process, a behind the scenes glimpse into the evolution of book cover art, as well as reading an excerpt from her latest novel, Birds of a Feather. Fans will delight in this recording of her talk.

A Slow Fire Burning is the highly anticipated next book from The Girl On the Train author, Paula Hawkins. Tune in to hear what Jayne and Paula had to say about this thriller, plus what else they've read and there's heaps of new and exciting books coming out his month! Books they mention: A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins The Money Goddess by Paula Hawkins Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista by Paula Hawkins, writing as Amy Silver The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Into the Water by Paula Hawkins The Push by Ashley Audrain We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver One Italian Summer by Pip Williams The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen Freedom by Jonathan Franzen The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Wild Place by Christian White The Nowhere Child by Christian White The Wife and the Window by Christian White Act Like You Got Some Sense by Jamie Foxx Carnival

The ladies read the highly anticipated new novel from Daisy Jones and the Six author, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Paula is not holding back! This book's got her feeling some kinda way and it's not the way she's supposed to. Plus what else they've read, literary goss and what's new and hot. Books they mention: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix The Truth About Her by Jacqueline Maley This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger The Survivors by Jane Harper Force of Nature by Jane Harper The Lost Man by Jane Harper The Dry by Jane Harper The End of the World is Bigger Than Love by Davina Bell No! Never! by Libby Hathorn and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman Last Shot by Jock Zonfrillo Well Hello by Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Conversations With Friends by Sal

After surviving Adelaide lockdown and with the libraries reopened, Jayne and Paula come together to discuss their latest pick, a unique merging of the classic English literature with traditional Aboriginal Australian storytelling. As always, there's also literary news and more! Books they mention: After Story by Larissa Behrendt Home by Larissa Behrendt Legacy by Larissa Behrendt A Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell The French Gift by Kirsty Manning The Long Long Afternoon by Inga Vesper Atomic Habits by James Clear Now That I See You by Emma Batchelor 12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson CSI Told You Lies by Meshel Laurie Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins-Reid Our book for September is Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins-Reid. Happy reading!

Sit back and listen to Jayne and Paula tell you about tales of women who decided they'd had enough of certain pesky family members they wanted out of their lives for good and decided to do something about it with the odourless and tasteless poison Thallium. Maybe grab your favourite mug and brew up a cup of Bonox to enjoy with the pod. Probably best to make it yourself, mind. Of course there's also what else they're reading, what's new and hot, and what's all the fuss lately about Dark Emu, which was featured on the pod in episode 15. This month's ep was recorded in Adelaide on 30 June 2021 and if the ladies sound a little off this month, stay tuned to the end of the podcast for an explanation. Books they mention: The Husband Poisoner by Tanya Bretherton The Suitcase Baby by Tanya Bretherton The Suicide Bride by Tanya Bretherton The Killing Streets by Tanya Bretherton A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott The Kingdoms by Natasha

Jayne and Paula are loving all the nostalgia in this Heathers meets The Exorcist time capsule from the 80s! Plus all the usuals: what else they've read, what's new and hot in the publishing industry and literary news. Books they mention: My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix Dirt Candy: A Cookbook by Amanda Cohen, Grady Hendrix, and Ryan Dunlavey Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason What Happened to You by Dr Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey Mirror Man by Fiona McIntosh The Missing Sister by Lucinda Riley Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor Rabbits by Terry Miles The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle The Yield by Tara June Winch Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty Podcasts they mention: Super Scary Haunted Homeschool You're Wrong About Rabbits Website they mention: http://www.gradyhen

Listen as author Alexander Thorpe discusses his cosy, historical murder mystery Death Leaves the Station. Alexander's first novel brings the cosy country-house intrigue of crime fiction's golden age to the Australian wheatbelt, and was written for fans of classic mystery and crime fiction.

Mums being woke! This is the story of trans woman, Reese, who's lesbian trans partner, Amy, detransitions back to a man, Ames. Ames finds out he's going to become a father and offers Reese the chance to be the mother she's always wanted to be. Jayne and Paula set out to navigate this complicated world and discuss Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters. Plus, Paula's made up for her reading dry spell last month, Jayne's got the latest and greatest in books and they share some literary news! Books they mention: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson Three Women by Lisa Taddeo Consent by Vanessa Springora Girl A by Abigail Dean The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood Yearbook by Seth Rogan Whereabout

Get ready to fan your face and clutch your pearls! Jayne and Paula read Bridgerton: The Duke and I this month and they do not hold back! **This episode contains frank and explicit discussions of sexual activity and also non consensual sex. If you would like to skip this, please go to the 35 minute mark.** Books they mention: Bridgerton: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn What Happens in London by Julia Quinn To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn Untold Resilience by Future Women The Last Reunion by Kayte Nunn Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner Old Seems to be Other People by Lily Brett World Travel by Anthony Bourdain with Laurie Woolever Phosphorescence by Julia Baird The Things She Owned by Katherine Tamiko Arguile Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell TV shows they mention: Bridgerton, Netflix series Who Wants to be a Millionaire The Weakest Link Friends Gossip Girl Link to AWW2021 podcast: https://www.adelaidefesti

This month's feature book was on many top lists for 2020, not to mention Maggie O'Farrell was at Adelaide Writers' Week this year discussing it. Jayne and Paula dig into this fictional account of the short life of Shakespeare's only son who died at age 11. Books they mention: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell The Vanishing Act by Maggie O'Farrell The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg And Now We Have Everything by Meghan O'Connell Atomic Habits by James Clear The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Phosphorescence by Julia Baird A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams The Husband Poisoner by Tanya Bretherton The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende The Performance by Claire Thomas My Daughter's Wedding by Gretel Killeen Plays the

Ever wanted to listen to a podcast where two grown women cry at work? Yep, it's an emotional one this month with Jayne and Paula having all the feels about Ashley Audrain's The Push. Plus what else they've been reading, Jayne's list of what's new and hot, literary news and what's next for March! Books they mention: The Push by Ashley Audrain We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver This One Wild and Precious Life by Sarah Wilson Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld The Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke The First Woman by Jennifer Makumbi The Octopus Man by Jasper Gibson Shiver by Allie Reynolds Movies they mention: Marriage Story Once Upon a Time in Hollywood The Harry Potter series The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The Babadook Penguin Bloom TV series they mention: The Stand Link to video for how to make a Purchase Suggestion: https://business.facebook.com/Cityo

Happy New Year! Jayne and Paula are back with another episode, this time about a quirkily titled short story anthology, Smart Ovens for Lonely People. How will this compare to the last anthology they read which underwhelmed them both? Plus, both ladies have thoughts to share on book-to-screen adaptations they've seen recently. Don't forget, they want to hear from YOU! Send your Literary Anything comments and questions to libraryevents@marion.sa.gov.au. You can use the voice memo app on your phone to record yourself! Or comment on the Literary Anything Facebook group. Books they mention: Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan Rubik by Elizabeth Tan Runaway by Alice Munro Certain American States by Catherine Lacey I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid The Best of Me by David Sedaris The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld The Duke and I by Jula Quinn The Dry by Jane Harper Penguin Bloom by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt Solo by Rebecca Seal Gende

We think the whole world is probably looking forward to the end of 2020 but Jayne and Paula have fun taking a glance back at what they read and loved (and didn't love!) over this crazy year. They also look at what our borrowers were borrowing this year, both fiction and non-fiction, and then discuss what they are excited to read in 2021. The duo also announce that in 2021 they want YOU to be a part of the show! Post on our library Facebook page or in the Literary Anything Facebook group all of your burning questions, comments or suggestions and they'll read them out and talk about them on the podcast. Or record yourself using your phone app and email it to us at libraryevents@marion.sa.gov.au Books they mention: The Spill by Imbi Neeme Untamed by Glennon Doyle The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper The Things She Owned by Katherine Tamiko Arguile Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Bunny by Mona Awad My Friend Anna by Rachael Deloche Williams The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa The Weekend by Charlotte Wood The Midni

A state lockdown almost prevented a normal recording of this month's very meta episode with Jayne and Paula discussing The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Spoilers, they DON'T agree on this one. Trigger warning: This episode includes brief mentions of suicide. If you'd like to avoid them please skip to 30:50. Neither of the ladies got much else read this month but Paula delivers some intriguing literary goss about a celebrity chef getting cancelled and Jayne tells us what's new and hot including another book derived from a podcast. Books they mention: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Last Family in England by Matt Haig Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig The Radleys by Matt Haig The Humans by Matt Haig How to Stop Time by Matt Haig A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert The Five Pe

Jayne and Paula aren't really seeing eye to eye on this month's Booker Prize short listed book, Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi. Paula's keen to share what else she's read and Jayne gives the low down on some of the many, many exciting books that are due out this month! Books they mention: Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Foe by Iain Reid Untamed by Glennon Doyle Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar The Dressmaker's Secret by Rosalie Ham Lucky's by Andrew Pippos Courage Under Fire by Dan Keighran Maar Bidi edited by Elfie Shiosaki and Linda Martin Really Saying Something (Our Bananarama Story) by Sara Dalling and Keren Woodward There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura Christmas Tales by William McInnes No Time Like the Future by Michael J. Fox The Best of Me by David Sedaris Becoming by Michelle Obama Our book for next month is The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig. Happy reading!

In case you haven't heard, we have a series of webinars happening with our library service called Library Through the Lens. Find out more about it and book in here: https://www.marion.sa.gov.au/library-through-the-lens If you miss out or can't make the webinars, we will be recording some sessions and making them available for you here on the podcast! Listen to author Ashley Kalagian Blunt in conversation with Katherine Arguile as she discusses her wonderfully eccentric account of how an exemplary Canadian does her very best to be a better Australian. When Ashley persuades her new husband Steve to leave snowy Canada and join her for a year Down Under, she looks forward to an easy transition. After all, Australia’s just Canada with more sunshine and strange animals, right? But they soon discover things aren’t so simple. For the sake of her marriage and her happiness, Ashley must find an Australia she can belong to: she decides to travel the country, learn its history, decode its cultural quirks and connect

Iain Reid's I'm Thinking of Ending Things blew Paula's mind so she insisted she and Jayne feature it for this month's episode. But does Jayne feel the same way? And does the Netflix movie version live up to the book? The ladies dive into this mind bending and divisive book! Books they mention: I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances- White The F Generation by Virginia Trioli Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L Trump The Story of My Life by Paul Jennings The Godmothers by Monica McInerney The Survivors by Jane Harper The Two Lost Monuments by Matthew Reilly Fire of Joy by Clive James The Sentinel by Lee Child Killing Time by Jimmy Barnes Channel Kindness by Born This Way Foundation Reporters with Lady Gaga Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith Other media mentioned: I'm Thinking of Ending Things movie on Netflix Round the Twist TV series Driven Crazy TV series Links: Perth bookshop's Face

On 10 September 2020 we welcomed the public back to the Marion Cultural Centre for our first in person author event since the beginning of the year. We were delighted to host Victoria Purman to discuss her historical fiction novel, The Women's Pages. From the bestselling author of The Land Girls comes a beautifully realised novel that speaks to the true history and real experiences of post-war Australian women. We hope you enjoy this recording of our live event.