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Alison Booth's, 'A Perfect Marriage', has domestic violence at the centre but love, loss, friendship and honesty help to heal the hurt. Peter Cotton's, 'Dead Heat' begins with a domestic murder but soon escalates to a regional, nuclear crisis.

Ten Women tell their stories in Gwenda Beed Davey's 'Girl Talk: One Hundred Years of Australian Childhood'.Jacqui Horwood from Sisters-in-Crime talks about the upcoming Davitt Awards.

Alli Sinclair has set 'Burning Fields' in the sugar cane area of northern Queensland in 1945 with a character, Rosie, who wants to rebuild her family without losing the man she loves.  Moreno Giovannoni takes us into the unique atmosphere of rural Tuscany in his collection of tales 'The Fireflies of Autumn'.

Who is your best friend and why? In 'The Art of Friendship' Lisa Ireland writes about two women who share a histroy but question whether they should continue with their friendship. Trauma is seen through the eyes of a child in Kate van Hooft's 'WE See the Stars'.

A brazen murder with hundreds of witnesses takes place on the streets of Melbourne, in Sarah Bailey's crime novel 'Into the Night'.Clare Strahan tackles the challenging topic of adolescent sexuality in her novel, 'The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge'.

The Emerging Writers Festival Artistic Director, Izzy Roberts-Orr, highlighted the  interests and challenges of running this festival for the new creative voices in the community during our Radiothon programme.

Blue Justice is a gritty Melbourne crime novel that draws on Phil Copsey's four decades in the police force. Other Worlds is an intriguing series by Melbourne author, George Ivanoff, that invites the younger reader to let their imaginations run wild and visit impossible but plausible worlds.

Megan Goldin’s novel, The Escape Room, delves into the murky world of finance where people are literally prepared to murder to make money. But what happens when some of those corrupt executives become caught in an elevator? A Penguin publication. The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo is a moving and poignant novel that revolves around Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge. Two tragic accidents four decades apart dee...

Just how does a woman operating a fish and chip shop in rural Australia become a private detective influencing commercial development in Australia? Sue Williams shows us how in the amusing 'Live and Let Fry'.Glenda Guest takes us on a trans-Australian journey of both distance and memory in her novel, 'A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline'.

Award-winning and NY Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff's latest riveting young adult sci-fi novel is LIFEL1K3 (Lifelike), published by Allen & Unwin. Yvonne Fein takes us into the layered intensity of Jewish culture in her absorbing collection of short stories, Choose Somebody Else, published by Wild Dingo Press.

The orchestration of Monash's battle at Le Hamel in France is compellingly detailed in Monash's Masterpiece by Peter FitzSimons, published by Hachette Australia. Once A Copper: The Life and Times of Brian 'The Skull' Murphy is the latest gripping true-crime book written by award-winning author Vikki Petraitis, published by Wild Dingo Press.

'Little Gods' by Jenny Ackland has a young girl on the cusp of womanhood who wants to find answers to a family secret but also learns that the truth doesn't always set you free. Family and social dysfunction feature heavily in Julie Prendergast's 'The Earth Does Not Get Fat'.

'Bonesland' by Brendan Lawley, takes us on an adolescent journey full of testosterone trauma. An extended family is tangled together by a wealthy inheritance, secrets, simmering childhood rivalry and betrayal in Fiona Lowe's 'Birthright'.

Michelle Scott Tucker has written the biography of an ordinagry English country woman who fell in love with a difficult man and came with him to New South Wales in 1790 in 'Elizabeth Macarthur; A life at the edge of the world'.Never say never is the maxim of Robert Hillman's latest work, 'The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted'.

An extended interview with Michael Mohammed Ahmad about his novel, The Lebs, which illustrates the struggles of Bani Adam who is coming to terms with his sexual and cultural identity in the Australian Muslim community of Sydney's Punchbowl.

S. A. Jones has cleverly written about the many and varied sexual encounters in 'The Fortress' where men have to be subservient to women. Emily's horizons are broadened after she is dispatched to the family property in Mira Robertson's, 'The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean'.

Rodney Hall explores the self-imposed shackles and constraints of society in 'A Stolen Season'.'The Everlasting Sunday' by Robert Lukins has boys in trouble, learning about surviving, not just against a vindictive winter but for life.

Investigate the death of an aspiring writer in Katherine Kovacic's, 'The Portrait of Molly Dean'.The tragedy of war, the power of hope and all sorts of love are at the heart of Ada Langton's novel 'The Art of Preserving Love'.

'What the Light Reveals' by Mike McCoy delves into identity and allegiances in the Cold War era of Australia's past. Gert Loveday is the author of 'Writing is Easy' and also the humourous invention of Gabrielle Daly and Joan Kerr.

Debra Oswald's 'The Whole Bright Year' is a fiction about growing up. She chats with Judy Bierwirth as they both have writen for stage and screen.

A novel for the modern male, Craig Sherborne's, 'Off the Record', skewers the male ego and current day journalism. How well do you know your neighbours? Sally Hepworth has interesting twists and turns in 'The Family Next Door'.

Intrigue, espionage and a global threat are at the heart of James Phelan's 'The Agency'.The revolution in Iran is combined with magic realism in 'The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree' beautifully written by Shokoofeh Azar.

There are countless stories to be found behind each door of a single street as Lynette Washington discovers in 'Plane Tree Drive'.

Richard Holt's, 'What You Might Find', is an entertaining collection of micro-fiction with a poetic bent. What will an aspiring journalist do get out of her small country town? Anna Snoekstra has many twists and turns in 'Little Secrets'.

Who should have custody? Author, Anne Buist, has used her own knowledge as a psychiatrist in the psychological thriller, 'This I Would Kill For'.A family relocating to a haunted house, riviving the spirits from the past and exposing family friction in Penni Russon's, 'The Endsister'.