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From the Lighthouse is a literary podcast published out of the Department of English at Macquarie University. Your hosts Dr Stephanie Russo and Dr Michelle Hamadache love to talk about anything to do with books, from the latest bestsellers and prize-winners, film and television adaptations of books to bookish news. Join us as we chat all things literary. For more information visit the MQ English Department webpage at www.engl.mq.edu.au
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Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Interview with Kim Kelly on The Rat Catcher
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
This week, Michelle talks with Kim Kelly about her latest book, The Rat-Catcher—long-listed for the Australian Historical Fiction Prize.
Kim Kelly is the author of twelve books, including the acclaimed novella Wild Chicory and bestselling novels The Blue Mile and Her Last Words. She is a book editor and reviewer as well, because too much narrative action is never enough. Her latest novella, The Rat Catcher: A Love Story, was shortlisted for Viva La Novella 2021, and longlisted for the 2022 Australian Historical Fiction prize. The Rat Catcher is published by Brio Books. Kim lives and writes on Wiradjuri Country, in central-western New South Wales.
The Rat Catcher is available in paperback and ebook and can be purchased from Booktopia here. The audiobook is available now. Find out more about Kim and her work here.
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Ned Bukarica interviews Emma Batchelor
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Ned Bukarica interviews Emma Batchelor on her first novel Now That I See You.
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Interview with Tessa Lunney on Writing Historical Fiction
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Tessa Lunney, author of the Kiki Button historical espionage series, talks with Michelle Hamadache about Paris, plotting and how the present can galvanise the past when writing historical fiction.
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Queer Readers Read Queer YA Romances
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Join Professor Hsu-Ming Teo as she explores the student perspective on reading Queer YA Romances, with special guests, Teyah Miller and Courtney Boulais.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
As part of this year's MQ Student Writers’ Festival, Teyah Miller, Courtney Boulais and Courtney Howell discuss Rhiannon Wilde's Henry Hamlet’s Heart and Sophie Gonzales' Perfect On Paper as examples of contemporary Queer YA Fiction.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
As part of this year's MQ Student Writers’ Festival, Kobra Sayyadi and Matilda Harrisson interview Stuart Everly-Wilson on his first novel, Low Expectations.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
MQ Student Writers‘ Festival: Interview with Alice Pung on One Hundred Days
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
As part of this year's MQ Student Writers’ Festival, Kobra Sayyadi and Matilda Harrisson interview Alice Pung on her new novel, One Hundred Days.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
As part of this year's MQ Student Writers’ Festival, Jason Chen and Jessica Jarrett discuss Claire Zorn's When We Are Invisible and John Marsden's Tomorrow When the War Began as examples of the Dystopian Bush genre.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
As part of this year's MQ Student Writers’ Festival, Lili Watkins-Murphy and Ahrya Reddy discuss Amy Reed's The Nowhere Girls and Candice Carty-Williams' Queenie as examples of the impact of the #MeToo movement in fiction.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
As part of this year's MQ Student Writers’ Festival, Jasmine Van Vliet talks to Jimmy about the genre of Indigenous Futurism as seen in Claire G. Coleman's Terra Nullius and Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf.