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The Fremantle Press Podcast

Perhaps you’re a lover of Aussie literature or just love book chat of any kind; perhaps you’re an aspiring author or illustrator; or perhaps you’re someone who hopes one day to work in publishing. If you fit any of these descriptions, this is a podcast you may want to subscribe to.

Where can you listen? On your favourite podcast apps such as Apple iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify or SoundCloud, or use the players provided below.

Want to know more about what’s in store? Read our blog post introducing the Fremantle Press Podcast.

How to Avoid a Happy Life podcast – episode 4: Author Julia Lawrinson pays tribute to her time in the fast-food industry

Brooke Dunnell presents: David Whish-Wilson on overcoming the fear of the known

September 15, 2022

Brooke Dunnell presents: crime novelist Karen Herbert says spreadsheets can help you wrangle a rogue plot

August 31, 2022

Brooke Dunnell presents: award-winning novelist Maria Papas challenges the narrative arc in her novel about the effects of childhood illness

New podcast host Brooke Dunnell teases out the emotional undercurrents of the harvest in her chat with Locust Summer author, David Allan-Petale

February 4, 2022

Mel Hall talks to Maria Papas about how her upbringing, a Christian conversion and her curiosity led her to The Little Boat on Trusting Lane

Maria Papas talks to Susan Midalia about why it’s crucial to keep writing about family

Love to Read Local 2021: Maria Papas talks to novelist Josephine Taylor about Eye of a Rook and giving voice to women’s experiences

Love to Read Local 2021: Maria Papas talks to novelist Emma Young about the bonds we form through a shared love of books

From Sherlock Holmes to hamsters and from Agatha Christie to moustaches: Alexander Thorpe and Dave Warner chat all things crime on the Fremantle Press Podcast

November 3, 2020

Shortlisted for the Hungerford Award, Sharron Booth’s manuscript explores generations of family secrets, some of which she shares with us on the Fremantle Press podcast

October 12, 2020

Joanna Morrison talks about her supernatural crime thriller, Still Dark, one of three manuscripts in the running to win the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award

October 9, 2020

Shortlisted for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Maria Papas shares her manuscript about what it is like to bear witness as a sibling battles a serious and frightening illness

October 9, 2020

This week in Love to Read Local we talk to Westerly Magazine editors Catherine Noske and Josephine Taylor about their own novels, the writing they love and the good, the bad and the brilliant parts of their day jobs as literary editors

In this podcast, Holden Sheppard takes us through a day in the life of a bookseller and a bestselling author

In this very special episode of Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle Press, Yuot A. Alaak shares his refugee experience and talks about the importance of sharing real and nuanced African stories with Rebecca Higgie

Susan Midalia, Donna Mazza, Emily Paull and Bindy Pritchard talk turning points and the long and short of fiction writing on this week’s episode of Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle Press

Susan Midalia and Laurie Steed discuss their latest novels, Western Australian books to watch and the very special art of mentoring

Poet Bron Bateman on writing, memory and the female body

February 11, 2020

From the Hungerford award to an epic new novel, Madelaine Dickie chats to Holden Sheppard about writing, the Kimberley and Indigenous affairs on the Fremantle Press podcast

December 3, 2019

Holden Sheppard talks to David Whish-Wilson about his hard-hitting new crime novel True West and what it says about our right-wing past and political present

October 31, 2019

Sexuality, masculinity and mental health: Holden Sheppard bares all in the latest episode of the Fremantle Press Podcast

October 18, 2019

Did you know that Australian convicts helped create the San Francisco we know today? Novelist David Whish-Wilson talks about his latest book The Coves.

October 11, 2019

Novelist Steve Hawke tells the story of his latest book Out of Time to Holden Sheppard in this episode of the Fremantle Press Podcast

September 3, 2019