• The SBS Book Club

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The SBS Book Club

By: SBS
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  • Grab your favourite nibbles and take a seat for the SBS Book Club, hosted by Sarah Malik. Read and listen along as we delve into the year’s best novels - chatting with some of the biggest names in Australian publishing including Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko, Shankari Chandran, Mirandi Riwoe and more. We’ll discuss the book characters you love, hate, and love to hate. We'll dive into portrayals of what Australia was, is and could be. And we'll explore themes of war, race, family, friendship, love and the power of a great story. Get ready for some book club brawls and good times.
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Episodes
  • Debra Dank’s stories of outback Aboriginal life are an ode to Country

    Debra Dank’s stories of outback Aboriginal life are an ode to Country
    Feb 20 2024
    Gudanji-Wakaja author Dr Debra Dank talks to SBS Book Club host Sarah Malik about her debut book 'We Come With This Place', which has been labelled a jewel to rival Australia's great desert memoirs.
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    41 mins
  • Mirandi Riwoe writes about love and war through the eyes of Eurasian women

    Mirandi Riwoe writes about love and war through the eyes of Eurasian women
    Feb 13 2024
    In this episode of the SBS Book Club, author Mirandi Riwoe talks to Sarah Malik about writing the historical novel ‘Sunbirds’, and her fascination with exploring the Eurasian experience and cross-cultural relationships. Riwoe won the 2020 Queensland Literary Prize and the ARA Historical Novel Prize for her first book 'Stone Sky Gold Mountain'.
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    32 mins
  • Yumna Kassab explores love across social divides in ‘The Lovers’

    Yumna Kassab explores love across social divides in ‘The Lovers’
    Feb 6 2024
    Miles Franklin shortlisted author Yumna Kassab talks to Sarah Malik about her poetic novel 'The Lovers'. It's an unlikely romance between characters Jamila and Aamir, inspired by Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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    32 mins

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