Weekday books
Weekday Books
Weekend books
Weekend Books
Monday - Friday
12:00pm | 10:00pm REPEAT
Spies Like Us by Hugh Lunn
What do you do in the swinging 60s when you've got a great job as a reporter, and the car to match - a Sunbeam Alpine - but lost your love? Bestselling ABC Books author Hugh Lunn went to China on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, blundered into Red China, and then fell in love again. Armed only with Banjo Patterson ballads, and an artificial sheepskin coat, he soon learnt that life is not all cricket and cheongsams. 'It's a ripper' - Ian 'Macca' McNamara 'It's a winner' - WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
Monday - Friday
12:30pm | 10:30pm REPEAT
‘Romulus My Father’ by Raimond Gaita
Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy’s life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary story to tell about growing up with his father amid the stony paddocks and flowing grasses of country Australia.
Sundays | 12:00pm
A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard
This complex and haunting exploration of life on the edge and what it takes to triumph over adversity is a story about the indomitable nature of hope. Two young boys, an old tramp, a beautiful teenage dancer, and the girl's baby-ragtag survivors of a sudden war-form a fragile family, hiding out in the ruins of an amusement park. As they scavenge for food, diapers, and baby formula, they must stay out of sight of vicious gangs and lawless solders. At first they rely on Billy, the only adult in the group. But as civil life deteriorates, Billy starts to fall apart. Skip, who is barely into his teens, must take over and lead them on a search for sanctuary.