
Claire Nichols
Presenter at ABC News (Australia)
Presenter of The Book Show, on podcast and ABC @RadioNational. Also tweets about musical theatre, pink shoes and cheese toasties.
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6 days ago |
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols
Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst reflects on writing about gay lives and Booker Prize shortlisted author Charlotte Wood explains what it's like to not win the prestigious prize. British writer Alan Hollinghust won the 2004 Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty about a gay man living in 1980s Britain.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |David Le May |Rhiannon Brown
From Sydney Writers Festival, two bestselling writers, David Nicholls and Liane Moriarty, reveal what it's like to see their stories go from the page to the screen. The British writer David Nicholls is best known for his novel One Day, which has been adapted to film and to television. While Australia's Liane Moriarty has seen every one of her books optioned for the screen and hit the big time with the starry TV adaptation of her novel Big Little Lies.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Nicola Heath |Claire Nichols
Australian author Charlotte McConaghy's third novel, Wild Dark Shore, opens with a woman washing up on a remote island halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. Who she is and why she's there is the mystery that propels the narrative. Claire Nichols, host of ABC Radio National's The Book Show, says it's a great read — but McConaghy found Wild Dark Shore her hardest novel to write. "I wrote the first 25,000 words four times and deleted them four times.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |David Le May |Rhiannon Brown
Kaliane Bradley shares the serious side to her obsession with muttonchops and time travel, with her book The Ministry of Time, and Rumaan Alam reflects on the success of his novels, Entitlement and Leave the World Behind which was adapted to the screen starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke. British Cambodian author Kaliane Bradley shares the inspiration behind her hit 2024 debut The Ministry of Time.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |David Le May |Rhiannon Brown
Marian Keyes, the queen of commercial fiction, explains why she fetishes family, the getting of wisdom and writing books she wants to read. Irish writer Marian Keyes is known for her funny and relatable books which also explore difficult topics like addiction, depression, domestic violence and abortion. Marian's 16th novel, My Favourite Mistake (Penguin), is another story about one of her beloved Walsh sisters, a family she's been writing about for 30 years.
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